NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Extraordinary "Highlight" video offshore Kona, Hawaii

A compilation of video clips collected in deepwater by the Little Hercules Remotely Operated Vehicle and camera platform during an ROV shakedown cruise aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer offshore Kona, Hawaii (March 2010). The video footage shows a pelagic sea cucumber (apodid holothurian), Venus flytrap sea anemone (actinoscyphiid sea anemone), tipod fish (chlorophthalmid tipod fish), flatfish (pleuronectiform flatfish), eel (bongrid conger eel), shrimp (benthic caridean likely nematocarcinid shrimp), actiniid Bolocera-like sea anemone with a galatheid crab, Glass sponge and demospongid with hermit crab, and hexactinellid (glass) sponge next to a primnoid coral. Video Credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.

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[mohgoku]

the beauty of evolution

[Kurt Schwehr]

Fantastic video. Would be awesome if someone could add markup saying which species we are seeing throughout the video.

[fenrirgg]

And there they live... alone in the pressure and dark.... awesome!

[echafaud]

who's the stupid creationist that voted thumbs down

[Fahid K]

Amazing footage

[jomaster64]

beautiful, simply out of this world

[ZehMagster]

Yumm...