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15 ROV dives were conducted ranging in depth from 305 to 3,010 meters to explore the diversity and distribution of deep-sea habitats and associated marine communities in the Gulf of Mexico basin. Operations were focused on characterizing deep-sea coral and sponge communities, bottomfish habitats, submarine canyons , shipwrecks , and ...
The list includes records of giant squid (genus Architeuthis) either supported by a physical specimen (or parts thereof) or—in the absence of any saved material—where at least one of the following conditions is satisfied: the specimen was examined by an expert prior to disposal and thereby positively identified as a giant squid; a ...
The 15-month period between January 2014 and March 2015 saw an unprecedented mass appearance event in the Sea of Japan, during which 57 giant squid specimens were recorded in Japanese coastal waters (spanning #563 to 631) [1] and a substantial but smaller number from the South Korean side. [2]
Near a coral reef off the coast of Japan, an eight-armed sea creature searched for its next meal. The tiny animal used martial arts-like movements to grab and hold its prey. The tentacled hunter ...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has released nearly 1 billion saltwater fish into Texas bays over the last 40 years — an effort to revitalize historic fisheries and recover native fish ...
The boaters were surprised to find it swimming in just 50 feet of water.
On 11 November 2007, a bigfin squid was filmed off Perdido, a drilling-site owned by Shell Oil Company, located 200 statute miles or 320 km off Houston, Texas in the Gulf of Mexico. The ROV that filmed the squid had originally been sent to retrieve drilling equipment from the seabed, and encountered the squid floating near a well.
Marine researchers had a strange encounter during a recent dive in California's Monterey Bay. A squid mom hauled a spawling sheet of eggs through the water. "During a recent deep-sea dive, MBARI ...