Love me some cephalopod beauties and this muusoctopus is no exception. Bathypterois tripod fish usually put on good photo shoots. A fish guy I know said the skate is breviraja nigriventralis. And a cluster of Lyrocteis benthic ctenophores. #DeepWonders @schmidtocean.bsky.social

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Some highlights from dive 952 - a young breviraja skate, woodfall with munidopsis squat lobsters, barnacles with a cusk eel, and a hagfish. #DeepWonders @schmidtocean.bsky.social

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A neat looking sponge, then a couple pictures of some funky masses of sea cucumbers amongst bivalves, and then a zoom on a beautiful farreidae sponge. Dive 949 #DeepWonders @schmidtocean.bsky.social

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Dive 944 had a really cool looking siphonophore, a shrimp coming over to say hi, and (per a message on @tuexplorer1.bsky.social post from Chris Mah) possibly a hyphalaster mud star, which was engorged from eating mud and not seen commonly. #DeepWonders #Siphonophriend @schmidtocean.bsky.social

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That's a neat anemone @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 975 part 2 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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