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Gulf of Mexico 2014 Expedition
Ocean Exploration
Orange peel on a sediment covered bottom seemingly nearly devoid of life. Ashrimp can be seen swimming above the bottom a few feet to the left of theorange peel in the image - marine debris.
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A yellow rubber glove with a small sargassum weed algae and a shrimp to theright in the image - marine debris.
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Marine debris - an old steel rope or cable that has captured sargassum weedin its bight.
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Marine debris - probably monofilament fishing line extending across the bottom.
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A canvas tarp or sail on the bottom - marine debris.
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What looks like corn kernels on the seafloor. How in the world could these fewkernels make it from the surface to the bottom and fall in that compact of agrouping? Marine debris.
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Marine debris - apparently a tree branch on the seafloor. This deterioratinglog provides habitat and nutrients for numerous small creatures.
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Small white squat lobsters and small translucent anemones or zoanthids make upthe bulk of visible biota using this sunken log as habitat. Perhaps thesurrounding sediment is enriched by nutrients from the log as a veritable forest of small tube worms
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Teensy white squat lobsters inhabiting a log on the bottom.
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What appears to be a porcelain cup that has been on the bottom for a significant amount of time judging from the sediment that has deposited on its top surface. A small bamboo coral is to the left in the image. The long linear strings oneach side of
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A product of Rocky Mountain spring water at the bottom of theGulf of Mexico.
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What appears to be a very old steel cable that has significantly deteriorated.There is also a cylindrical object next to the left laser dot at the bottom ofthe image. Marine debris.
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Plastic or metal tube on bottom - marine debris. A yellow feather starcrinoid is on the lower left of the image.
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Old hemp rope marine debris laying in a somewhat strange appearingagglomeration of dead and live lophelia, yellow cup corals, small sponges, andother small biota.
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