#schmidt ocean

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

I'm enjoying the amazing high-quality images of these sea creatures that an expedition sighted in the underwater mountains off the coast of Chile. Over 100 suspected new species were found in February 2024.

[andmaybegayer]

Come watch the Hydrothermal Vent Show

Some researchers in chat mentioned that hydrothermal vents can sometimes grow as fast as tens of centimeters a day. Which is wack.

[noosphe-re]

Cutlassfish (Mysteries of the Twilight Zone | Worlds of the Deep — Natural World Facts)

[mbari-blog]

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

This deep-sea anglerfish is Chaunacops coloratus, related to one of the new species recently found in Chile on Schmidt Ocean Institute’s #SEPacificSeamounts expedition. In 2012 MBARI researchers were the first to publish observations of these rare fish in their natural, deep-sea habitat. In addition to documenting these fish walking on the seafloor and fishing with their built-in lures, the researchers discovered that the fish change color from blue to red as they get older.

C. coloratus was first described from a single specimen collected off the coast of Panama during an expedition in 1891. However, for over 100 years, marine researchers collected deep-sea fish using trawl nets and dredges, so this anglerfish was never seen alive. That changed in 2002, when researchers from MBARI, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, and the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary used the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Tiburon to explore Davidson Seamount—an extinct volcano off the coast of Central California.

As a result of MBARI’s ROV observations, researchers also learned that C. coloratus can live as deep as 3,300 meters (11,000 feet) below the ocean’s surface. Given the great depths these fish inhabit, it is no surprise that they had never before been seen alive. It is a testament to the usefulness of ROVs, which have provided marine scientists with a new window into the deep sea. MBARI has pioneered the use of ROVs to study animals, discover new species, document previously unknown behaviors, and collect individuals in their native habitat.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A recent expedition discovered this likely new species of sea toad on an underwater mountain off Chile. Sea toads are ambush predators, using their lures to bring prey close and then attacking. 

PHOTOGRAPH BY SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE

[lucybellwood]

A friend just notified me that it is the annual Day of the Seafarer so here's a free comic about crossing the Pacific on an oceanographic research vessel to celebrate! (This voyage was also the source of the most popular thing I've ever put on Tumblr.)

Read the whole comic here.

[beautifultimes-beautifulplaces]

Schmidt Ocean Institute - Seamounts of South-eastern Pacific - Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park

A squat lobster perched in coral.

A squat lobster on sediment at 1392 meters deep.

A Chaunacops at a depth of 1388.65 meters.

A whiplash squid (Mastigoteuthis) documented at 1105 meters depth after inking.

Detail of a sponge documented at 1238.67 meters depth.

Giant Phantom Jelly (Stygiomedusa gigantea)

[sammonroesslut]

masterlist !! ☀️

ethan landry works:

[endoplasmian]

watching this livestream and this little fail octopus did the worlds slowest faceplant

[jolynejolynejolynejolyneeeee]

MIKEANNE

[aquatic-dusk]

gonna need everyone to sit down, shut up, and watch this video immediately

[cobalt-thunder267]

He's got that sea mount drip

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My brain would not SHUT UP until I made this edit.

It's a picture of a bright red sea toad snapped by the Seamounts of the Southeast Pacific expedition by the Schmidt Ocean Institute!

[unofficial-sean]

Phoenix Islands, 678m, female of unknown length, late June 2021, Schmidt Ocean Institute.

[baubellum]

Come see the ocean floor! Live feed from deep diving! Science!!

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Mariana Hadal Snailfish

Courtesy of Schmidt Ocean Institute

[goldfish-or-smthing]

this idiot:

or potentially this submarine called SuBastian: