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🦑 This baby is COLOSSAL! 🦑 First confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. Filmed at about 600m near the South Sandwich Islands during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo

submitted 50 days ago • 8 comments

A squid (psychroteuthis?) and a beautiful relicanthus anemone (my fave anemone). They have very long tentacles that taper down to a very thin and can start curly q. And those tentacles can be over 2 m long.

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Made it to dive 799! Close up of a pycnogonid sea spider and its proboscis. A lovely zoom on an acorn worm, a beautiful purple colored sea cucumber. And an odd pink lobster-like crustacean. #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife #AtlanticOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

The octopus in this area all have those leeches on them. That Antarctic Sun star was fishing! You can see a fish it caught. And then an anemone with some sea cucumbers uniquely positioned next to it. Dive 798 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife #AtlanticOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t see striped pycnogonid sea spiders amid bryozoans often, a closeup of an Antarctic sun star Labidiaster, and a couple shots of a glacial Psychroteuthis squid! So cool to see different than normal cephs. Dive 798 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife #AtlanticOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

So far behind (expedition is over). These are dive 798. A corallimorph that caught a shrimpy meal, near fish, and then the tail of a fish chillin inside a sponge. #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife #AtlanticOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, What the heck?? Some weird ball like growths on this Brisingid. @echinoblog.bsky.social From the live dive of Okeanos off the southern coast of Oahu at 600ish meters.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

All the octopuses in this area had leech parasites all over them. A bunch of isopods on that funky looking sponge. A Rockwall just covered in corals and sponges. And a large pycnogonid sea spider. Dive 798 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife #AtlanticOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

The Antarctic sunstars Labidiaster are massive! The grenadier fish has two sphyrion parasitic copepods on it (and those long trailing pieces are gonads!). And a large tunicate that I don’t know the genus of. Dive 798 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife #AtlanticOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Beautiful umbellula, an anemone, osedax (?) bone worms! Look at that size of the polychaete worm!! Suggested it was eulagisca gigantea! Do I have any worm peeps that can confirm? I have never seen one with its scales on Dive 798 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Lovely shot of a sea mouse (laetmonice?), and an umbellula. I had originally thought the last one was an anemone, but the tentacles are feathery and someone suggested a burrowing sea cucumber? @echinoblog.bsky.social #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife #AtlanticOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

They were calling the first animal a sponge, but it looked gelatinous. They did collect it. Also a Slosarcyzkovia squid, thouarella primnoid coral, and an octopus that had parasites. Dive 798 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife #AtlanticOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday was the first SOI dive of the new expedition. Started off with a bang! Right off the bat was a siphonophore (looks almost erenna-like, but also not 😂) and a gonatus antarcticus squid. Dive 798 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife #AtlanticOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social #Siphonophore

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Things you can find (at least at times) in the midwater. Gorgeous shot of a periphylla jelly. A couple of an alluroteuthis squid (with some color changing effects), and one of a plunderfish. Dive 793 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Stygiomedusa!!! AKA Giant phantom jelly. They are not very common to see, and SOI saw two back to back! These guys get to be huge. The bell can be 1 meter across, and arms up to 10 meters long! Dive 793 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

This stalked crinoid had all kinds of commensal organisms. Crew said the pink animals were flatworms, and then there all the isopods vs amphipods (not the greatest at telling them apart). Dive 790 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

This anemone stood out as different from the rest of them. Even the stock of the anemone with its striated appearance was interesting. Dive 790 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

On dive 790, SOI saw this lovely outcrop covered in anemones with a large funky shaped glass sponge. On zoom, there was a cool isopod on the glass sponge. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

A pretty white mushroom coral, a polychete worm on a glass sponge. Then you have a couple pucnogonid sea spiders feeding on anemones. These sea spiders looks a little different than the ones we normally see. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Ooooh look at that isopod! Also a pretty cup coral. Then two animals playing hide and seek: a pycnogonid sea spider hiding behind a hydroid (and another isopod), and an octopus in pancake mode.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Got a couple more cirroctopus. They are just the cephalopod of the expedition! Also a beautiful ctenophore (lampocteis?), and a lovely zoom on some zooanthids that have retracted and surrounded by marine snow. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

SOI saw so many of these Macroptychaster accrescens stars during this expedition. They are so cool looking and big! One was 60cm across. Looks like one of them might be eating. Dive 790. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Last photos from dive 788. I love the glass sponges they have been seeing, so funky. Two different octopuses, not certain on their genus. And a crazy large nemertean worm next to an anemone. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Dive 788 - got some nice shots while SuBastian were surrounded by Antarctic krill. Was so very cool to see. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Some sightings from SOI dive 790. This pink anemone just pops! A cute little fish, some decorative looking brown glass sponges, and a large feather star crinoid with a great view of its cirri holding onto the sponge. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

This glass sponge and ophiuroid observation was just so stunning with the color and backdrop! It is amazing to see such beauty so far down in an area with no natural light. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

MARUM Dive 111 off Milford Sound. That anatomy was actively catching shrimp, beautiful phromosoma (?) urchin, a fish (grenadier?) and some awesome looking stolonifera coral. #NewZealand #MarineLife @marumunibremen.bsky.social

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

Sea star post! I thought of @echinoblog.bsky.social I think the first one is a Macroptychaster accrescens. It looks like the second one might be feeding on a sponge. And I haven’t seen a star like the last two before. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 119 days ago • 2 comments

They’ve done a lot of close-ups on the solitary hydroids. I find it fascinating to be able to see both the outer and inner ring of tentacles and all the stuff in between that I don’t know the name of. Dive 788. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Still catching up on past dives. A lovely photogenic glass sponge, a swimming crinoid (love the color), a shrimp with a parasite, and a snazzy fish that I haven’t seen before. Dive 788 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

This umbellula sea pen had a couple of hitchhikers on in. A pair of amphipods just chilling. I love the photos against the dark water and marine snow. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Dive 788 we got to see a cirroctopus that was actually awake! So beautiful and graceful as it moved through the water. Even though the last photo looks like we are getting side eyed 😆 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 120 days ago • 2 comments

Dive 786. Been lots of neat isopods, this one on a glass sponge. A rock with a gersemia soft coral and some mushroom coral. One of the mushrooms has its polyps extended and the other is retracted (and a fish friend) #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

Love this!

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

A mix from dive 786. Another one of those beautiful solitary hydroids, a serolid isopod, a fish sitting on top of a sea pig, and a flat anemone. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

A beautiful Cirroctopus and it’s sea pig neighbors, then it had a little fish buddy come snuggle next to it and stay there. Dive 786 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

On other expeditions it’s not super common to see swimming feather star crinoids, but feels like the last several days we’ve seen many of them. And all those pretty lavender color. Dive 786 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

These last couple dives have also had a lot of solitary hydroids. So many of them are photogenic. You can see the outer and inner ring of tentacles, as well as the center stuff that I don’t know the name of. Dive 786 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

This totally looks like a Muppet to me 😂 I guess you could call it a funky sponge with a crinoid hat… But I think I’m gonna stick with the newest member of the Muppets. Dive 78

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

I’m pretty sure this octopus did not want to be on camera. It kept crawling around to hide behind things 😆 Dive 786 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

This little octopus (cirroctopus?) total is giving off a mood of how dare you wake me! Dive 785. #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife #SouthernOcean @schmidtocean.bsky.social

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments