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@nev@flipping.rocks  ·  activity timestamp last month

Literally drop whatever you're doing and tune into the ROV divestream: https://youtu.be/7vmqCc9OJk8

This dive is the shallowest yet, a coral reef just below 200m, full of amazing creatures we haven't seen so far this expedition. The scientists are endearingly excited.

#UruguaySub200#DeepSeaUruguay

A red-and-white striped fish with a long thin "nose" photobombs a close-up view of a white coral covered in little polyps.
A red-and-white striped fish with a long thin "nose" photobombs a close-up view of a white coral covered in little polyps.
A red-and-white striped fish with a long thin "nose" photobombs a close-up view of a white coral covered in little polyps.
An octopus, reddish and with pointed bits to match the pink polyps around it, rests on a coral reef with its U-shaped eye closed.
An octopus, reddish and with pointed bits to match the pink polyps around it, rests on a coral reef with its U-shaped eye closed.
An octopus, reddish and with pointed bits to match the pink polyps around it, rests on a coral reef with its U-shaped eye closed.
A whole school of the same kind of fish, which have a sort of brown  stripe running down the side of their body and yellow tail fins. They are swimming around in an elegant flowing pattern.
A whole school of the same kind of fish, which have a sort of brown stripe running down the side of their body and yellow tail fins. They are swimming around in an elegant flowing pattern.
A whole school of the same kind of fish, which have a sort of brown stripe running down the side of their body and yellow tail fins. They are swimming around in an elegant flowing pattern.
A large fish, two-toned with a darker dorsal half and silvery ventral half, stares agape at the ROV camera as, in the background, the robot arm is inserting a push core (a clear cylinder for sampling sediment).
A large fish, two-toned with a darker dorsal half and silvery ventral half, stares agape at the ROV camera as, in the background, the robot arm is inserting a push core (a clear cylinder for sampling sediment).
A large fish, two-toned with a darker dorsal half and silvery ventral half, stares agape at the ROV camera as, in the background, the robot arm is inserting a push core (a clear cylinder for sampling sediment).
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neville park
@nev@flipping.rocks replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

At the very start of the video, the lead scientists actually start getting choked up and crying when they see the reef: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vmqCc9OJk8&t=140s (about 2:20–8:05 in the video)

15 years ago, the research vessel Miguel Oliver (including the lead scientists and several others on this mission) visited the area. They mapped the area with sonar and found the mounds formed by coral reefs, and dredged the seafloor and found live coral in the samples. That's how they discovered there were deep-sea coral reefs in Uruguay.

When they planned to return with the ROV, they didn't even know if the reefs were still alive. This is the first time they've actually seen the reefs and the amazing diversity of life they're home to. blobmeltsoblove

References:
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-012-0115-6 (PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235932740 🔓)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2013.12.010 (PDF: https://eva.fcien.udelar.edu.uy/pluginfile.php/69441/mod_resource/content/1/Franco-Fraguas%20et%20al.%2020141.pdf 🔓)

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