Thought some of you would enjoy these photos:
http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/students-nhm/baina/auv/fish/
http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/students-nhm/baina/auv/fish/
Very interesting deep sea critters.....
- Thread starter Chummer
- Start date
Please register or login
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
- Ability to post and comment on topics and discussions.
- A Free photo gallery to share your dive photos with the world.
- You can make this box go away
Chummer:
I can't begin to tell you home much I love this stuff. To me, its so awesome that we're on a planet for as long as we've been on this planet, and we still are able to trawl up stuff on occasion that makes us say, "huh??"
Obviously, all of this stuff is / has been identified, but I still find it so humbling, so grand and exciting that there is still so much we just don't know about the ocean.
This made my day. Thanks!
K
H2Andy
Contributor
crickey... them thing's ugly...
fascinating, though
fascinating, though
Wow... I'm impressed.
glbirch
Contributor
Definitely some weird fish down there.
Nice pics.
Nice pics.
CAPT HOOK
Contributor
So cool - thanks for sharing!
Pelagic Hero
Registered
The Gunard is cute!
That Long-nosed chimaera pup looks more like a plesosaur to me. Gives me the willies!!! 
WOW... that expedition got some pretty good hauls. Were you on it Chummer? If any other's are coming up ask the invertebrate folks if they can squeeze ME aboard! I'll even sleep in the engine room!
For you american folks, here's some pics a little closer to home... the good 'ol Gulf of Mexico.
The first one's Eumunida pictus, found at a piddly 500m and recovered with a robot sub. Now it lives in my lab's cold tank alongside shallow water California critters. This crab's never been found in the Gulf of Mexico before.
Number two's a neat unidentified species of Hymenaster, found way down at 3,000m. These starfishes are almost completely gelatinous, yuk!
Third one's Bathynomus giganteus, the ubiquitous deep-sea pillbug. Get to eighteen inches long, and can even roll into a ball, not like anything would ever want to eat THAT. Our lab tends to "mess" with these critters... just check out my profile pic to see an example.
Last pic's a big goosefish, a type of deepwater angler. This one's pretty stinking massive (meter or so long), and like all angler's, only the female is free-living. Male anglerfishes are miniscule, and their only job is to find a female and clamp down with their mouth somewhere on her body. Eventually his internal structure fuses with hers... leaving him as this bizarre external symbiote that donates sperm.
For you american folks, here's some pics a little closer to home... the good 'ol Gulf of Mexico.
The first one's Eumunida pictus, found at a piddly 500m and recovered with a robot sub. Now it lives in my lab's cold tank alongside shallow water California critters. This crab's never been found in the Gulf of Mexico before.
Number two's a neat unidentified species of Hymenaster, found way down at 3,000m. These starfishes are almost completely gelatinous, yuk!
Third one's Bathynomus giganteus, the ubiquitous deep-sea pillbug. Get to eighteen inches long, and can even roll into a ball, not like anything would ever want to eat THAT. Our lab tends to "mess" with these critters... just check out my profile pic to see an example.
Last pic's a big goosefish, a type of deepwater angler. This one's pretty stinking massive (meter or so long), and like all angler's, only the female is free-living. Male anglerfishes are miniscule, and their only job is to find a female and clamp down with their mouth somewhere on her body. Eventually his internal structure fuses with hers... leaving him as this bizarre external symbiote that donates sperm.
Similar threads
Question
Questions:
