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Dinner at >3000m

So great to hear such excitement in the voices of the NOAA researchers!

Whale Fall Actively Devoured by Scavengers at Davidson Seamount

Whale look what we have here! During the final dive of this year’s Nautilus expedition season, our team discovered a whale fall while exploring Davidson Seamount off central California’s coast with researchers from NOAA's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The skeletal remains of this relatively recent fall are of a baleen whale estimated to be 4-5 meters long, and the team is working to identify the species. The site exhibits an interesting mid-stage of ecological succession, as both large scavengers like eel pouts and octopus are still stripping the skeleton of blubber, and bone-eating Osedax worms are starting to dissolve the bones. Explore with us LIVE right now: nautiluslive.org

Posted by Nautilus Live on Wednesday, October 16, 2019
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Eel-tailed catfish

We spotted this eel-tailed catfish (Tandanus tandanus) in Lake Parramatta today. It is native to eastern Australia, also known as dewfish, freshwater catfish, jewfish, or tandan. As you can tell, we were lucky to see much of anything…

Tandanus tandanus in Lake Parramatta

Eel-tailed catfish (tandanus tandanus) checking out the BlueROV2

Posted by Undersearov on Wednesday, October 16, 2019
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AUV “Boaty McBoatface” Explores Poles

The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) “Boaty McBoatface” started its explorations in 2017 in the Arctic, exploring the Flichner Ice Shelf, measuring temperature, salinity and turbulence or mixing.

Full article at: BBC 13mar18

More recently, “Boaty McBoatface” headed to the Southern Ocean, collecting data that show Antarctic winds are linked to increasing ocean temperatures. Quite unexpected…

Video about the Southern Ocean excursion is available at: CNN.com 18jun19

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Natural underwater slinky

We don’t use the phrase “Just when I thought I had seen it all” because stories like this one are being shared around the globe:

Divers just found a giant natural slinky on the Great Barrier Reef

This tube-like structure measures over 2.4 metres (8 feet) in length was identified byJames Cook University’s Dr Blake Spady as the egg tube of the Diamondback Squid. The squid, which itself is around 2 metres in length, can lay over 40,000 eggs in one ‘slinky’. Sadly, she dies afterwards.