Post · bonfire.cafe

Post

neville park

@nev@flipping.rocks · 5 months ago

in which the ROV meets a mola mola (original: https://youtu.be/7vmqCc9OJk8?t=16254)

(with sound, bc i figured out how to record sound with ffmpeg lol)

neville park

@nev@flipping.rocks replied · 4 months ago

catching up on the last dive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g2eybplmK4)

this mysterious thing appeared on the way down. i was whispering "what the fuck" to myself over and over while it was on screen. they think it is some organism's eggs??

#UruguaySub200 #DeepWaterUruguay

neville park

@nev@flipping.rocks replied · 4 months ago

there's a sponge specialist on board who alerted them to this interesting carnivorous sponge. when SuBastian picked it up this was all I could think of

3 media

On a thin stalk—coral? a sort of polychaete?—being clutched in the ROV's claw is a soft white globe covered all over with long thin threads, a bit like a thistle. There is a tiny translucent nudibranch on top, like a little hat.

Zoomed-out view of SuBastian's robot arm grasping the thin stalk with the sponge on top.

A _Minecraft_ iron golem holding out a poppy, inspired by the robot from the Studio Ghibli film _Laputa: Castle in the Sky_.

neville park

@nev@flipping.rocks replied · 4 months ago

More seafloor finds:
- a lizardfish
- an ofiuro (brittle star) on coral
- an erizo (sea urchin), apparently Phormosoma placenta
- a glass bottle now home to several deep-sea organisms

4 media

A long thin dark grey fish with a distinctly unimpressed expression.

A thin white stalk of coral covered with short little polyps. A pinkish-white brittle star (ofiuro) is clinging to the stalk for dear life, its long, thin limbs wrapping around the stem.

A purple-pink sea urchin that looks kind of like a dome covered with many thin threads standing straight up, and also on top a number of long bunny ear-like lobes.

Close-up of an old green glass bottle, dirty with sediment, clasped in SuBastian's claw. There are several corals or anemones growing on it, and perhaps a sponge on the bottom, and I think either brittle stars or gusanos (worms) of some kind.

bonfire.cafe

A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate

bonfire.cafe: About · Code of conduct · Privacy · Users · Instances

Bonfire social · 1.0.1 no JS en

Automatic federation enabled