High winds
Today, we benefitted again from earlier MBARI efforts that mapped, and then surveyed, the Santa Monica South Canyon.
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Santa Monica clam and worm reef
Today, we benefitted again from earlier MBARI efforts that mapped, and then surveyed, the Santa Monica South Canyon.
May 20, 2013
We started our day with a dive at Pedro’s whale carcass, discovered by Peter Brewer and his team last week in the North Santa Cruz Basin. We were ordered to recover the vehicle shortly after the start of this dive because a naval operation was planned for this area
Clam dig at a deep seep
We started our day with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dive at a methane seep mound visited by Peter Brewer and his team on May 14. We found extensive bacterial mats of different colors…
A whale fall community
Our first dive of this series took place 10 miles west of San Diego, California, at a site where, 18 months ago, scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography deployed a whale carcass.
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