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 Pulling in the Neuston net at night |
 Chaunax fish |
 Dr. Murray Roberts prepares to enter the stern compartment of the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible for his first dive. |
 Dense coral development of mostly live Lophelia (picture taken from bow video camera of Johnson-Sea-Link sub) |
 Liz climbs out of the Johnson-Sea-Link as other science team members wait to carry samples to the wet lab. |
 Reneé Green celebrates with Liz Baird after returning from her first sub dive. |
 Jennie McClain smiles broadly as she emerges from the Johnson-Sea-Link after her first dive. |
 The Night Crew: (L to R) Jennie McClain, Tara Casazza (watch chief), Barb Lubinski, and Reneé Green |
 Neuston net as it's being deployed off the starboard side of the ship |
 Hagfish slime |
 Juvenile sailfish (Istiophurus platypterus) specimens caught with Neuston net |
 Dr. Cheryl Morrison makes use of the time spent steaming to the next dive site by transcribing the audio files from all of her dives. |
 Andrea Quattrini monitors sonar data while the science team assesses a potential dive site. |
 Video tapes made during Johnson-Sea-Link dives |
 Waves crash over the side of R/V Seward Johnson as she steams to port in Charleston, South Carolina. |
 R/V Seward Johnson at port in Charleston, South Carolina |
 Colleen Young restocks collection supplies. |
 Dr. Murray Roberts takes pictures of specimens collected by the Johnson-Sea-Link. |
 Gravid shrimp with blue eggs |
 Small octopus (approx. 4 inches) collected on 10/26/05 dive |
 Dr. Martha Nizinski with a fan-shaped sponge collected during a dive |
 Doni Angell enters Johnson-Sea-Link in preparation for a morning dive to Stetson Banks. |
 MT Palmer looks out the Johnson-Sea-Link's porthole before an afternoon dive. |
 Sample of consolidated substrate with several corals, hydrozoans, and other small invertebrates attached. |
 Black coral sample taken during dive to Stetson Banks |
 Dr. Ross teaches an impromptu knot-tying class as R/V Seward Johnson returns offshore to resume the mission. |
 These half-inch-long hermit crabs live in tubes made by worms. |
 Taken with a fish-eye lens, this view shows the sub's arm retrieving a trap containing Galatheid crabs against a backdrop of Lophelia. |
 A close-up view of a pencil urchin reveals the texture of the spines. |
 Sunset on the R/V Seward Johnson |
 Ilya Nikanorov, R/V Seward Johnson engineer and data manager, gives Tara, Missy, Colleen, and Jennie a short course on Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) operations. |
 CTD deployment from R/V Seward Johnson |
 Toxic sea urchin collected during Johnson-Sea-Link dive |
 Nezumia sclerorhynchus, roughtip grenadier |
 Goosefish |
 Blind lantern ray |
 Dr. Steve Ross and Doni Angell discuss the taxonomy of the goosefish. |
 Colleen Young boards the Johnson-Sea-Link for her first dive. |
 Large glass sponge with soft corals attached |
 Galatheid crabs |
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