Deep Trawl Underwater Camera

The underwater sea floor seen here is very different from those we've seen heretofore. It is continuously covered with thriving living organisms. The fauna are dominated by branched "corals" about twenty cm tall, rather colorful and decorated with numerous lighter-colored brittlestars. Several species of white foliate (flattened in a leaf shape) sponges and other, yellower ones are scattered over the living tapestry.
We can see corridors that are bare of organisms. These areas seem to have been scraped by rocks or ice, but the hypothesis of a passing iceberg at such a depth is discarded. Thus it could be a case of a landslide of big rocky chunks that would have tumbled down the continental talus.
The rare vertebrates seen are Notothenioids and, for the first time in the mission, macrouroids, also known as grenadiers!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Cousteau
• CAML
• Census
• of
• Antarctic
• Marine
• Life
• Antarctica
• undewater
• camera
• trawl
• biodiversity

[albinio157]

HAHAHA!! That's no trawl net buddy. I like how they hooked those 4 chains to their little camera to make it look like a trawl net. And as you can see, the spread of those chains is no greater than 5 fathoms. A small trawl net would be around 30ftms. Nice try but you fail miserably.

[Alaskrab]

These guys need to be banned. Draggers are the rapists of the sea.

[wackokicker]

@1967rider unfortunately, still you are buying on walmart or wathever fishmarket, you are fueling this activity

[joejackson1337]

too bad trawling destroys the sea bed!!!!!



[1967rider]

killing the sea for profit. you suck and i hope you sink.

[Goofus5453]

@JacksonKaneElliott It's fake

[Goofus5453]

FAKE

[777mark100]

This is incredible. What a totaly FAKE video. Look at the chains there is almost no pressure on them. Look at the spred!!! What are they draging a child size net. Maybe from a rowboat. It is just some more fake propaganda crap from the tree hugger special interest groups.

[Erinsprideseafood]

According to you honesty has nothing to do with it. That is why you and your tree hugging buddies need to fake videoes. The truth is that according to the National Marine Fisheries Service no species is currently being over fished...look it up you lying POS!

[AMarunowski]

@Erinsprideseafood honesty has NOTHING to do with it. Wake up and smell the extinction, we're destroying everything we touch. If you're fine with that, then we're doomed already as a species. Regardless of the validity of this video, bottom trawling and the other forms of commercial fishing used these days are doing immense amounts of damage to the world's oceans.