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Uploaded by on Dec 29, 2007

Rob Beaman, research scientist in marine geology in Cairns (James Cook University): "The camera is flying along the edge of an iceberg scour. Over time, icebergs float over the shallow seafloor and where the bottom of the icebergs touch the seafloor, they leave wide scour marks that are many meters wide and several meters deep. The icebergs crush and kill the marine life in these scour marks. The video shows a relict scour mark that has been recolonised by benthic marine life."

Marc Eléaume, researcher at the Museum in Paris, specialist in crinoids: "The benthic macrofauna seems relatively poor and fairly widely dispersed. Some crinoids and a white sea star make up the mobile fauna. At the end of the sequence we can see two swimming shapes: these are crinoids of the sub-family Heliometrinae and more precisely Promachocrinus kerguelensis. My observations at the Dumont d'Urville base taught me that only this species flees from the passage of an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle)."

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  • Pretty cool...what kind of camera did you use, and where did you get your set-up from? Im amazed at the amount of light you got down there...can you explain your set-up? Thanks :)

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