Feed from ROV SuBastian as it descends to the seafloor, at 1944m below sea level. A small white object floats into view. When the camera exposure is turned down, it's revealed to be a roughly egg-shaped agglomeration of small white spheres that looks a bit like a cluster of closed coral polyps, enclosed in a layer of transparent crystalline orbs-within-orbs. Then the camera exposure is turned up again and they let the object drift offscreen.
ROV SuBastian feed from Sept. 4, 2025. The scientist on the mic is talking (in Spanish) about how new species are named when in the background people start saying "Sunfish" and "Mola mola." The scientist says (translated, paraphrased) "Oh, what a beauty…I can't believe it, look, we have a beautiful moonfish putting on a show for us," and the ROV camera pans up to show a sunfish, in Spanish "pez luna" (moonfish), Mola mola. It is a large round laterally flattened fish with two big fins, one on its back and one on its belly. Everyone oohs and ahhs over the mola. "How impressive…enormous," the scientist says in pure awe as it swims near the camera. "The captain, pilots, everyone is like, 'Wow.' …What a marvel." She adds something about how they'd spotted it earlier on another camera.
Feed from ROV SuBastian as it descends to the seafloor, at 1944m below sea level. A small white object floats into view. When the camera exposure is turned down, it's revealed to be a roughly egg-shaped agglomeration of small white spheres that looks a bit like a cluster of closed coral polyps, enclosed in a layer of transparent crystalline orbs-within-orbs. Then the camera exposure is turned up again and they let the object drift offscreen.
Julio J.
Julio J. boosted
Modelo en Lego del ROV SuBastian en el fondo del mar territorial uruguayo, colcando una bandera uruguaya de metal en conmemoracion del 25 de agosto. A su alrededor se ve un pez (según nuestro experto) nadando, un cangrejo rojo, y un "oasis" con corales (incluyendo un Victorgorgia), esponjas y anémonas.
Modelo en Lego del ROV SuBastian en el fondo del mar territorial uruguayo, colcando una bandera uruguaya de metal en conmemoracion del 25 de agosto. A su alrededor se ve un pez (según nuestro experto) nadando, un cangrejo rojo, y un "oasis" con corales (incluyendo un Victorgorgia), esponjas y anémonas.
Modelo en Lego del ROV SuBastian en el fondo del mar territorial uruguayo, colcando una bandera uruguaya de metal en conmemoracion del 25 de agosto. A su alrededor se ve un pez (según nuestro experto) nadando, un cangrejo rojo, y un "oasis" con corales (incluyendo un Victorgorgia), esponjas y anémonas.
Modelo en Lego del ROV SuBastian en el fondo del mar territorial uruguayo, colcando una bandera uruguaya de metal en conmemoracion del 25 de agosto. A su alrededor se ve un pez (según nuestro experto) nadando, un cangrejo rojo, y un "oasis" con corales (incluyendo un Victorgorgia), esponjas y anémonas.
The ROV camera pans right to follow a red octopus that floats into view. It splays out its delicate webbed arms in petal-like curls, then pushes off, flapping two large "ears" on either side of its head, and glides offscreen.