[00:37:34] upasanaganguly leaves the room [01:55:54] kaseycantwell leaves the room [02:43:21] cherylmorrison leaves the room [10:55:37] EX1806_DIVE03 ROV powered off [12:22:07] EX1806_DIVE03 ROV Launch [12:25:08] EX1806_DIVE03 ROV on Surface [12:25:15] EX1806_DIVE03 ROV Descending [12:51:11] lesliesautter leaves the room [13:49:30] cherylmorrison leaves the room [14:10:01] Good morning! [14:10:26] lesliesautter leaves the room [14:10:45] Morning all - Today's link for SeaScribe annotations: https://divelog.oceannetworks.ca/Dive?diveId=1233 [14:12:27] Today's link for SeaScribe annotations: https://divelog.oceannetworks.ca/Dive?diveId=1233 [14:13:20] okexnav leaves the room [14:14:11] EX1806_DIVE03 ROV on Bottom [14:22:44] Leslie: what can be learned about these bedforms at the scale we are seeing them today? That is, what sort of things would a geologist be looking for? [14:25:14] I figured this was the ROV track! [14:25:26] I think we are too deep for beaked whales. [14:26:39] Was that a lone rock with a sponge to the right?! [14:27:39] it kind of looks like it, Scott [14:30:47] I was just checking on that with my wife, who is a cetacean biologist. She has a vague memory of 3000 m, but we'll check. [14:31:19] I thought it was our track as well. Such a straight edge- unusual! [14:32:58] hello all [14:33:11] Hi Asako. [14:33:43] Hi Tara [14:33:59] Hello Asako [14:34:13] Hi Asako [14:34:17] Hi Cheryl! [14:34:31] Hi Scott! [14:35:09] Follow up on deep whales from reports my wife (Patty Rosel, NOAA Fisheries) had earlier sent me: most bottom whale feeding is above 1000m depth, but she did have this for sperm whales: "Maximum dive depth attributed to sperm whales include 1135m, 1827m, 2250m and 3195m. These are extremes and sonar tracking has shown that 99.9% of dives are less than 1000m" [14:35:15] I'm not hearing the pilots anymore. [14:39:19] More on beaked whales from a paper by Peter Tyack (2006): for species known from Atlantic, dives between 222 and 1885 m depth. [14:39:52] Hi Tara- if you are on the telecon, you shouldn't be able to hear the pilots, just the science leads [14:40:02] and the pilots when they ocasionally break in [14:42:28] I am on the telecon, but I also have the sound on my computer. I haven't heard the pilots say anything on either for some time. [14:43:44] ah [14:43:53] To hear them on video typically you hear them on the right channel, and I agree, I don't hear them right now. [14:44:03] not since before the collection [14:44:05] bladders for some reason [14:44:13] they have been pretty quiet lately [14:44:23] @Tina: sargassum sunk to sea floor [14:44:38] now I hear them [14:44:47] Now I hear pilots [14:44:58] thanks! [14:45:03] I know, I reported it in 2017 in Mid-Atlantic [14:45:14] Thanks! [14:45:21] perfect! [14:45:26] the front row currently is a quiet bunch [14:45:33] Hi Tina [14:45:44] agree, Umbellula [14:45:53] A switch wasn't flipped- pilots on now [14:46:23] siphonozoids are perfectly visible [14:46:32] no sclerites visible [14:47:41] Porcupinella has axial polyp [14:48:20] @Tina: so a single polyp? [14:48:30] we've seen too of these guys now - any fun facts for folks? [14:48:42] it looks more like Chunella... in fact we encounter one in Tim's cruise, and had no idea if we got Porcupinella or Chunella [14:48:53] @Tina: or do you mean an axial polyp surrounded by other polyps? [14:49:17] it is like... upper polyp is outstanding a bit up [14:49:32] @Tina: ah! So, Chunella has axial polyp plus other polyps further down stalk - so not confined to the axial tip... [14:50:04] terminal, not axial, pardon my English [14:52:31] @scott, Chunella has several verticils of polyps and the last verticil concist of one... [14:52:43] Bryozoan [14:52:57] bryozoan [14:53:06] too big to be primnoid.. [14:53:22] I guess it could be a sponge [14:53:45] carnivorous sponges like harder geology.. I mean..stones [14:54:50] Butr isn't that true for bryozoans as well? [14:55:05] some exactinellids are living at soft substrate [14:55:41] not( we had some absolutely sof-liking bryozoans with rhizoids [14:55:50] arborescent bryozoans often have rhizoids [14:56:04] @Tina :) [14:56:40] adriennecopeland leaves the room: Replaced by new connection [14:56:40] So much that I am learning here! [14:56:52] there are plenty bryozoan in abyss.. nobody collecting them with ROV. [14:58:06] So, if you heard my pontification there, it comes down to what is the smallest particle bryozoan vs cladorhizid larva can use to settle and recruit. [14:58:27] Scaleworm my guess.. [14:58:38] at least brittleworm [14:59:01] hm) hermitcrab does not like extra-light [14:59:16] meganmcculler leaves the room [14:59:47] I have heard about shrimps inside of glass sponges, but never worms [15:01:12] Yes, the worm is a first for me too! [15:02:11] lesliesautter leaves the room [15:02:22] scottharris leaves the room: Replaced by new connection [15:02:57] I haven't seen large polynoids inside hexactinellids before. [15:03:11] igoose barnaclesat sponge [15:04:56] hydroids at barnacles [15:06:52] is this ripples or traces? [15:07:38] and small glass sponge in front of it [15:09:44] Carrying an anemone? [15:09:57] shell is covered by something. zoanthid or anemone [15:10:02] No, I think carrying a zoanthid [15:10:45] @scott, I do not know, see tentacles below decapod abdomen, it looks a bit like Entacmea [15:11:19] not entacmea.. just missed the name [15:11:35] so, it more anemone for me [15:11:47] I saw an opening in the front that looked like a retracted polyp as well as some tentacles hanging down from the back, so I'm guessing zoanthid [15:12:01] @Tina: we'll need to go back and get a framegrab to study! [15:12:15] @scott, agree as well, it is reason why I am not sure [15:12:27] taraluke leaves the room [15:14:42] lesliesautter leaves the room [15:15:12] different color of polyps, in that Umbellula [15:17:04] agree, tube anemone [15:18:08] if we a closer, can we get better zoom at cerianthid? [15:19:18] hydroid [15:20:02] we are still interesting [15:20:14] YES! [15:20:20] I like the idea to stir it up a bit [15:20:38] pock it [15:21:03] it has to be seaurchin [15:21:24] lesliesautter leaves the room [15:21:35] My video is much worse today than it has been. Very slow and stalling and breaking up. Likely because I am at hom on wirless and too many gamers in the neighborhood! [15:21:56] @Tina: I agree - must surely be a spatangoid heart urchin. [15:23:13] may be scoop& it will be deeper [15:26:03] All the other pits we've seen were the last group of explorers trying to figure out what is making these trails! ;-) [15:26:27] Maybe we're in a time loop and we don't know it. Those were our pits! [15:27:28] May have been a couple of anemones (orange) on the flyby [15:27:53] agree with anemones, and then it was a glass sponge [15:29:02] May be urchin as well [15:30:40] jamesrawsthorne leaves the room [15:31:42] santiagoherrera leaves the room [15:32:06] @Scott, I've been lurking on the low res high latency stream and it has been just fine, but no can get it to come up on the full res stream. [15:32:20] Enypniates pale [15:33:38] Full res Enyniastes sorry about mispell...not around a phone [15:34:14] Bob - what are possibilities for these burrows and mounds? [15:34:22] What is log URL? I'm not getting it using posted location [15:34:26] at this depth? [15:34:41] https://divelog.oceannetworks.ca/Dive?diveId=1233 [15:36:10] Question from the audience: from edge.tantriqua: How far down from the surface are you able to relay digital wireless communications? [15:36:38] Thanks...larger conical mounds are usually decapod...Axiid shrimp dig too deep to be well sampled. But...pretty deep for decapods. [15:37:00] this one has to be echiurid trace [15:37:35] agree with @Tina. the echiurid is long gone.... [15:38:55] @Bob: thanks. [15:39:32] tunicate [15:40:10] oh not, sponge [15:40:19] or yes? [15:40:50] that sure looks like whale feeding mark, but depth is a bit overwhelming [15:41:04] yes [15:41:49] Could this be Culeolus? [15:42:02] are they barnacles on the stalk? [15:42:20] Here is a quick link to an image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Culeolus_Okeanos.jpg [15:42:34] @tara, nope. amphipods [15:42:38] no [15:42:49] tunicate [15:43:10] thanks Tina [15:43:34] I agree with scott, it is tunicate. [15:43:50] I am not sure about sampling, it looks like dead [15:45:15] Here is an image of a nice living one: https://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/okeanos-animal-guide/Tunicata009.html [15:46:25] that doesn't look much like the thing in front of us [15:46:28] taraluke leaves the room [15:46:52] or was in front of us.... so I think it was a sponge [15:47:54] haha. @Les: how about this less pretty version? https://www.mbari.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/D744_03_18_45_18_crop-500.jpg [15:48:28] Or this one: https://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/okeanos-animal-guide/Tunicata014.html [15:48:59] well that one is dirtier! haha... but the one we were looking at had a nice fringe around the distal end and the stalk was much more robust. But it could have been closed up [15:49:24] I think it was closed up. From the side I could see interanl organs, which you wouldn't get in a sponge. [15:49:41] ok, you win @Scott, that's got the two things I just mentioned.... [15:50:01] lol. You are a formidable opponent, as S.C. would say! [15:50:09] @les, there are plenty of genera of deep-sea stalked tunicates, Vinogradova described quite a lot [15:50:54] and we are at the edge of the abyss where my experience is a lot less... [15:51:47] upasanaganguly leaves the room [15:51:48] more of these pits [15:52:15] and that is the second one at the end of a presumed urchin trail.... could it be?? [15:52:31] whales feeding on subsurface urchins? [15:52:44] at this depth? [15:52:51] @Les: now there is a hypothesis! [15:53:39] @les, what do you think... they are feeling their presence from the surface?? [15:53:50] @Les: one more for the tunicate idea... In this image note the lines of white internal organs; similar structures were seen in that stalked critter we imaged a short time ago: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Culeolus_sp.jpg [15:54:18] meganmcculler leaves the room [15:54:22] star! [15:55:28] Pterasterid? [15:55:37] and they were in the first image you sent, but I did not see them in the thingie we were looking at [15:56:18] too hairy [15:57:52] Did look like the slime star... [16:03:38] adriennecopeland leaves the room [16:06:12] they all benthic and most of them can swim [16:07:11] Holo possibly a Benthodytes or Paelopatides [16:08:06] @tina, sorry, I missed your idea.... Not sure why they would dive all this way for a heart urchin, unless there is some delicacy they like.... seems too far to go but then the size of the trench was right [16:08:30] One of the dorsal muscle bands seen as lighter "strap" [16:09:00] as for detecting the urchins, dolphins can blast the sediment with their "sonar" and find prey lurking within... I think [16:09:13] @robert, it has very strange yellowish papillae [16:11:12] @les, is it possible that they are here for Coriphaenoides? [16:11:41] Patty tells me that beak whales can barely open their mouths - they are slurp feeders - so it would be unlikely they are feeding on urchins. But here is a thought. What if squid are searching for urchins and then are attacked by sperm wahles? That would create such a pit... Problem is that Patty says sperm whales are not known from the area we are diving today. [16:11:59] that would make sense @Tina, but two of the pits were at the ends of urchin trails. [16:12:39] lesliesautter leaves the room [16:12:54] interesting @Scott, but the trench was 10 cm wide... does that fit with with sperm whale mouth? [16:13:37] I alway hear about that Japanese shrimp and sponge wedding present story but I've never seen it by myself :) [16:14:06] @Asako: maybe Japanese Americans! :-) [16:15:03] @Les: yeah, definitely flaws in my hypothesis. Seems pretty small for the lower jaw of a sperm whale. [16:15:24] @Scott: may be :) [16:15:39] @Les: the fact that sperm whales are not in this area is a bigger flaw! [16:15:49] and 1000 m too deep for beaked whale.... hmmmmm.... [16:16:20] jamesrawsthorne leaves the room [16:16:21] not from this side [16:17:32] taraluke leaves the room [16:17:50] very nice structure! [16:17:55] that story is basically came from the old phrase from one of the oldest Chinese literature "ShiJing". [16:18:04] lesliesautter leaves the room [16:18:06] there is an isopod sitting in the shadow [16:18:35] good spotting@Tina [16:19:25] Umbellula [16:20:14] @Leslie: Sorry - significantly delayed video for me today. Need to complain to my internet provider who is always extolling to me how awesome my internet speed is. [16:20:26] it looked like it was eating and swallowing.. Umbellula [16:20:37] @Leslie: are you hearing me okay today? When I compare to the video audio it seems pretty quiet... [16:21:04] Scott, you are OK at videofeed [16:21:13] @Tina: thanks [16:23:48] are we on a slope? [16:25:00] @Rachel: That might be a generous name for it! :-) [16:25:18] Ha! Couldn't tell if it was just the ROV or a sudden slope! [16:27:00] have we seen any ophiuroids at all today? I dont' remember seeing any, and yesterday there were a lot of them. [16:27:13] tunicate [16:27:20] @Tara. Good point. [16:27:52] @Tara: true. There should be plenty of Ophiomuseum, but I don't think I've seen any... [16:28:02] @tara, it was couple of times when I see Ophiomuseum perhaps [16:28:13] Culeolus [16:28:27] ah, there it is again... [16:28:41] we can take it, it looks more alive [16:28:55] bearded Culeolis [16:29:10] "bearded" with saragassum? [16:29:20] re the sediment slope, we are supposed to be in an area of "mageripples" and it does seem like the ROV depth is varying by about 3 m, maybe a bit more [16:29:33] Oh, tara, then just badly shaved [16:29:44] A bit different from the Pacific one if I am not mistaken. Perhaps a different species in that genus? [16:30:26] @tina Sorry. I couldn't resist. [16:30:56] @Chris: do you think we should collect this tunicate? [16:31:46] I think this one just has its mouth, i.e., siphon openings open [16:32:01] Hi Asako and others. I don't think we ever collected one of these over here. If this is live, then yes, would be a good collection [16:32:36] Coryphaenoides again but just got a glance at the fish [16:32:46] Hi Chris! Thank you. I agree with collection then. [16:32:46] meganmcculler leaves the room [16:33:19] For sample ID perhaps we could use Tunicate Pyuridae [16:34:18] take a part of stalk, I do not think it is useful [16:34:26] nice ROV track on the seds [16:36:36] Does anyone know someone who is working on deep tunicates? [16:37:08] An extra bonus will be if there are any small critters crawling around on the sargassum... [16:37:18] I wonder to what extent the drifting sargassum interferes with the feeding of those suspension feeders. [16:37:28] Karen Sanamyan [16:37:37] Chris, you did not told me that you need tunicate guy [16:38:03] Thanks Tina. We never collected one of these before so I never needed to ask [16:38:12] @Scott, or in the tunicate [16:38:26] @Les: yup. [16:42:37] CRAB! [16:44:50] anemone? [16:44:59] or coral [16:45:28] seems anemone [16:46:02] Demosponge but I am not sure its Geodia [16:46:10] and another anemony at sponge [16:46:31] Doesn't look right for Geodia to me but I am not very good with that group [16:46:44] what about that tiny white sponge in front of the other two? [16:47:06] they definitely have nematocysts [16:47:28] Anemones are a pain in the rear to id from images. [16:47:53] Xeno [16:48:10] Couldn't really see the small white sponge but perhaps a cladorhizid? [16:48:41] they are usually not so toxic, but... some shallowater anemones like Actinodendroncan be pretty toxic [16:48:53] I was wondering if it was a cladorhizid, but I didn't get a close enough look to see if it had the extensions sticking out or not [16:49:07] Actinodendron [16:49:18] Yea, same here Tara [16:50:36] bad experiment is to touch anemone to your lips...very think skin is easily stung...a nameless colleague tried this [16:50:46] maybe next time we see one of those tiny white stalked sponges we can get a better look at it. [16:50:55] haha. Nameless. love it [16:51:11] Probably your colleague with the swollen lips. [16:51:45] I don't know if cladorhizids can anchor in sed. I've only seen them on rocks but its such a large group that it wouldn't surprise me if there were some sed living species [16:52:06] @Chris: you are revisiting a discussion we had earlier! [16:52:29] I think those sponges are the same as the vase shaped wedding sponge, which would be in the genus Euplectella [16:52:37] Tina and Megan decided we were looking at bryozoans because they are known to anchor in sediment [16:52:50] @Scott I missed the discussion earlier. [16:53:02] @robert, I have a nameless colleague who licked Dieffenbachia for some reason. He could not speak for a week [16:53:25] @Tina: awesome. Does that colleague still lick unknown animals? [16:53:38] If so, that is a committed scientist! [16:53:55] Come on folks - they are tired of talking to me! [16:54:06] The holothurian is most likely a species of synallactid [16:54:25] @scott, no... only plants sometimes. He explained - when was able to speal again - that it was like incite, he could not explain why [16:54:48] In spite of dissertation on medusae, last I heard he worked for US Forest Service on spotted owls! [16:55:01] Dieffenbachia is a pot plant [16:55:13] Another Culeolus sp [16:55:36] @Bob: Because when you lick spotted owls your lips don't swell... Although you might get a talon in the face... [16:55:52] @Tina: well that explains a lot! [16:56:05] teeeny tubes [16:56:11] Little mud tubes... [16:56:24] All this talk of licking things is leaving me speechless [16:56:36] polychaetes, perhaps onuphidae [16:56:44] Amphipod tubes maybe? Or polychaetes. [16:58:19] @scott, when I was a student we had to determin lichens .. and it was a key.. and it was dichotomous. and it was a point when when you go to bitter taste and dichotomy to it was poisonous [16:58:38] kaseycantwell leaves the room [16:59:08] @Tina: maybe that is why there are so few lichen taxonomists... [16:59:22] @Tina: they never get past that part of the key. [17:00:09] @scott lol [17:00:29] Cheryl or Leslie: another request: can you give me the sample number for the tunicate so I can add that info to SeaScribe? [17:01:33] Hyalonematidae is the family of that sponge and it was probably the same as the previous, in the genus Hyalonema as Scott pointed out [17:02:50] Interesting - I would have thought these were erosion scars from material tumbling down the slope. [17:03:54] Has anyone identified the fish beyond Coryphaenoides? [17:04:25] @Chris: no. You are the fish expert today. [17:06:18] @scott sample number= D2_DIVE03_SPEC02BIO [17:06:27] I do not think they are attaching sargassum [17:06:44] Hmmm, ok you're in trouble now. If you had a chance to get a head closeup, perhaps we could tell if its C. armatus or something else. I will try to look up Atlantic species. [17:06:57] @Chryl: Thanks! [17:07:03] Sargassum came from this year [17:07:15] Euplectella again I think [17:07:22] upasanaganguly leaves the room [17:09:47] That sponge was on a rock so may be a different vase. Perhaps we could snapshot one if we see another on a rock? [17:10:52] We;ll keep an eye out for another, Chris [17:11:57] Is this it Chris? [17:12:12] Was that a hermit crab or something else (the red/orange thing)? [17:12:26] Hyalonema I think [17:12:41] Yup, looks like the Hyalonema we've been seeing regularly today [17:13:04] This one is a sediment dweller. Leslie, I like rocks too! [17:13:15] Chris, does it matter how many bigger holes you can se from above or it is random? [17:13:35] There was your close-up, Chris! [17:13:52] it is for Chris, he wanted a close up [17:14:07] Wow, great shot, unfortunately I don't know them well enough to go past Coryphaenoides. We need Ken or Bruce [17:14:38] Yes we do! Ken may get back to us with a species ID [17:14:48] There are also many many different species in that fish genus [17:14:59] Great Cheryl [17:16:03] I can send a screen shot [17:18:33] Xeno [17:20:54] agree with bob [17:21:05] Tiny Hyalonema to right, a real baby one [17:21:21] @Chris: yup. 2nd one we've seen today! [17:21:46] amphipod [17:21:57] quite a little complex [17:22:01] Maybe a Komokiacean...? [17:22:03] @Tina: what do you think? [17:22:07] Was xeno live? [17:22:21] whats that scott? [17:22:33] Hard to tell if xenos are alive! Look like mud balls either way. [17:22:46] A komoki is a relative of a xeno [17:22:55] @scott, xeno, these looks like golf balls [17:23:00] Ah, ok thanks [17:23:06] @scott, they all now forams [17:23:41] @Tina: thanks. Didn't know that. I'm living in the past! [17:24:07] @scott, somebody told me recently [17:24:19] Maybe a Hyalonema (Corynonema) sp [17:25:02] Scale worm on a cladorhizid? [17:25:11] This look like sponge [17:25:57] ok, hydroids came from surface together with sargassum [17:26:17] what about sponge?polychaete collection? [17:26:33] too late) [17:28:19] lesliesautter leaves the room [17:29:45] Friella?\ [17:30:42] Freyellidae I think based on the number of arms and depth. These are closely related to brisingids [17:31:48] If you can get a close up of the next one, we could tell. Freyellids don't have ribbing on the tops of their arms [17:33:24] mysid? [17:33:52] I was going to say crinoid stalk too [17:35:55] This is a Euplectella species I think. This genus has lophophytus attachment (thread rather than plates) so it can anchor in sediment. other euplectellids have basiphytus attachment (glue to rocks via a plate) [17:36:58] Beautiful, thanks. Yes, I am pretty sure now [17:38:29] lesliesautter leaves the room [17:41:55] Unfortunately I gotta go now. Have a great rest of your dive. [17:42:03] christopherkelley leaves the room [17:42:46] Thanks for joining us Chris! [17:44:19] we have just passed a cluster of what look like old pits that have infilled over probably, the decades.... [17:46:26] trying to get there [17:47:42] drift test. quick zoom on it now [17:49:27] This video delay is frustrating! [17:49:43] Fault is at my end, not yours. [17:50:16] Need more bandwidth! :) [17:50:27] Yup. [17:51:05] Couldn't tell, but I thought amphipod... [17:51:27] me too.... [17:52:06] Full Res video in Baton Rouge via Cox has been quite spotty as well...lots of audio/video freezes [17:52:53] lesliesautter leaves the room [17:52:56] @Bob: I'm on Cox as well. Not happy with them today. This is not usually an issue. [17:53:36] Zoanthid or aneomone on carb... [17:53:43] fuzzy chehipeds [17:56:23] an interesting walking gait... left rear, right front, right rear, left front.... [17:56:56] @Scott and Bob: I have WOW and it's doing the same thing. [17:58:03] proximal mound looks newest [17:58:16] lesliesautter leaves the room [17:58:31] taraluke leaves the room [17:58:46] andrewobrien leaves the room [17:58:46] cherylmorrison leaves the room [17:58:46] chat-admin leaves the room [17:58:58] I've lost video [17:59:03] frozen [17:59:15] me too [17:59:22] all 3 cameras [17:59:40] Satellite connection issue maybe? I don't hear the phone either and everyone on ship got booted from chat room [18:00:15] Verified they are not on the phone line either. [18:00:28] my video is gone too [18:00:28] adriennecopeland leaves the room [18:00:34] both high-res and public video frozen. [18:00:40] yep [18:01:03] So that all sounds like all feeds from the ship have been disconnected. [18:01:14] so it would seem [18:01:26] video down on our end too [18:01:47] Well, at least we were only 30 min or so from the end of the dive. [18:02:01] Hopefully an issue that can be resolved without too much difficulty. [18:02:13] true, and hopefully! [18:02:24] Now my wife can take me out for a pre-Father's Day lunch! [18:02:44] have a nice time, Scott. [18:02:54] Full disclosure: I'm not a father, but I'll take advantage of the holiday. [18:03:17] enjoy your pre-Father's day, Scott! [18:04:34] it's back! [18:04:40] back [18:04:46] video back [18:04:50] back here [18:05:00] And the are back! [18:05:21] I have only audio back [18:05:50] Welcome back, Leslie [18:06:05] taraluke leaves the room [18:06:25] uph. back [18:06:40] how long we have on bottom [18:06:52] Unfortunately, now I have to go. See you all tomorrow. [18:07:02] taraluke leaves the room [18:07:02] Streams out again [18:07:14] see you Tara! [18:07:26] back [18:08:06] robertcarney leaves the room [18:09:19] Thanks for tuning in Tara! [18:10:17] ophiuroid just passed [18:16:05] here's the sperm whale pit @Scott! hahaha... [18:16:34] MPHIPOD HIVE [18:16:40] lol. [18:16:59] Must be a pretty old pit scar for all of these burrows to have been dug, presumably afterward. [18:17:16] indeed [18:19:07] Nice tie in, Cheryl! Way to bring in the Alpheus work! [18:20:05] Didn't think I'd ever tie that into a habitat like this! [18:20:12] haha [18:22:39] After this sponge, can we look beyond it to the right... [18:22:47] In middle distance... [18:22:53] Might be an Acanella out there [18:23:54] no Acanella today? [18:24:00] Not yet... [18:24:40] Are we moving in the right direction? [18:24:53] Good job - that is what I was looking at... [18:25:01] too deep you think? scott? [18:25:04] Note: I cannot hear Cheryul giving directions [18:25:12] Oh - there you are [18:25:25] @Tina: maybe... [18:25:38] Thanks for trying [18:25:46] I couldn't make anything out when we were closer [18:26:00] Sorry, I turned off mic on accident [18:26:14] nice mud cloud.... I remember those from our Gulf of Maine work years ago [18:27:07] Acanella has been reported to 2875 m, so this would be a depth record... [18:28:10] kaseycantwell leaves the room [18:28:28] Yup! [18:28:33] Thank you! [18:28:55] I won't be joining you on post dive call - about to head out. Talk to you tomorrow. [18:29:32] Bye all. [18:29:48] these pits must be very old. they are partly infilled and sides are rounded. [18:30:15] have fun @Scott [18:30:18] scottfrance leaves the room [18:30:41] Thanks everyone!!! [18:31:34] an interesting day.... [18:31:58] Thank you! this is the first time I could say thank you at the end of the dive during this cruise... [18:32:21] leswatling leaves the room [18:32:26] asakomatsumoto leaves the room [18:36:49] thanks [18:37:49] tinamolodtsova leaves the room [18:41:24]