IPY-CAML-Polarstern Voyage 2006-2007: First ROV footages (2)

11 January 2007. First sea floor footage (2) filmed with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) nearby the remnants of the Larsen B ice shelf during the Polarstern ANTXXIII/8 expedition. This second sequence depicts a much richer fauna, comprised of fish, feather stars, brittle stars, sponges, corals and other colonial animals. We can successively see on this video a rockcod fish (on the left), a giant scaleworm, very rarely seen in Antarctica, and unknown elsewhere! Then it is the turn of a transparent solitary sea squirt (belonging to the Ascidians, filter-feeding animals belonging to one of the invertebrate groups closely related to the vertebrates) and of, in the background, on the left, the first specimens of a pink hydrocoral, very common here, but rare elsewhere in Antarctica. Other species such as some octocorals and feather stars can be seen.
by Gauthier Chapelle

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Cousteau
• CAML
• Census
• of
• Antarctic
• Marine
• life
• seafloor
• feather
• stars

[ulthea]

Great footage, thanks =)