Paul's old flag from the early 70s
Spicule mat (from sponges dying and decaying)
Some huge hydroids and soft coral on Daytons Wall
Kevin
Jennifer (laughing)
Site - "road" and a cool anemone
Germesia (soft coral)
Anemone and huge worms!
Pycnogonids, anemones, and a neat bryozoan
Stacy, then Kevin, then me in top right. Super clear water!
Paul's floater being brought up to the surface
Stacy - just look at how clear this water is!
One of Paul's cages
Crazy sponge diversity
Soft corals
The seal cage
Paul's floater
Sponge skeleton!!! Look at who ate the sponge - sea stars!
Turkey sponge! WEll, this is a volcano sponge that is HUGE and it is being lifted off the ground by some anchor ice. Super neat.
See the anchor ice behind it?
Another large sponge with anchor ice
Jennifer
Our dive hole, from under the ice
Crazy sponge and bryozoan diversity
a colorful transect of Paul's
Julie counting clams underwater with chilly fingers
Jennifer in the tomato
Chilly Julie
Big pycnogonids
I didn't do this dive because it requires full coverage in gear - Stacy goes in a hard hat dive helmet thingy..... this is where the raw sewage used to be dumped. Yuck. Stacy collects data here to see how crappy the site has become and how it is recovering now that the sewage is treated here. Yes, that is the poop pipe and all the white stuff is a bacteria that chows on poo/nutrients.
Hydriods on the poo pipe
poo pile. Things don't just disappear when you dump them in the ocean.
Mat of bacteria on the poo pile
Happy urchins with nutrients!
Before people had a clue about pollution used trucks and buses were sunk in McMurdo Sound. They are still there!
Poo pipe
Sediment, poo pipe, and pile o' poo video
big ol' sponge and Dayton's wall
Isotelia (anemone)
Huge volcano sponge
Soft coral
Fisher in the spicule mat
Big ass volcano sponge
Dayton's wall
90 ft. cages
Crazy sponges
Julie counts clams and Jennifer takes sediment samples
Julie counting clams
Stacy goes in
surface-supplied diving
Steve
Under the ice at Cinder Cones
That is me under the ice
Coralline algae and a cool knob sponge
Jennifer putting out settlement plates at Pierce's Casing
Lunch trays are out for new settlement plates!
Gorgeous algal ridge - Dayton's Plateau
Anchor ice
Fisher trying to upright the huge volcano sponge
Crazy green sponge
Me and a WATER DROP from Lance's class
Me under the ice!
Patterns in the sea ice above us
Neat sponge and nudibranch
Kevin counting cages
Kevin, huge vlocano sponge, and gangplank of volcano sponges
Kevin swimming toward the camera
The gangplank! (This was a real gangplank in the early 1900s to a tall ship. Now it is sunk, the wood is still intact, andthe volcano sponges love it)
Gangplank (a real gangplank from the early 1900's that lead to a tall ship was sunk and now all those volcano sponges are growing on it)
Kevin dancin'
Kevin and the volcano sponge
Me and the volcano sponge!!
Nudibranchs!
Nudibranch on a tubular sponge
Worms eating a fish head. Ugh!
The dive hole - you can even see the hut's roof through the hole
The observation tube - there were people in it watching us!
Me!
Kevin goes up!
Me
Julie goes up through the dive hole and ends with our dive tender
Kevin - under the ice at Little Razorback
See our dive hole??
Kevin and then LISTEN to the Weddell seals (and me telling you to listen)
Looking up the slope to our hole and back down
Neat tunicate
Kevin the star
Julie and a big tunicate
Julie's urchin hat
Julie in the trying to warm up hands position
Tubular sponge
The bottom at Little Razorback - a bit more shallow and with some anchor ice (brine tubes at the top)
Something is spawning!! Listen to Kevin narrating "spawnnnn" - my hands come into the video to inspect spawn
Brine tubes under the ice
Me - up real shallow to check out the neat ice formations
Beautiful
Julie
Listen to seals again right at the start!!! Kevin and the ice...swimming to the Cathedral
Kevin coming out of the Cathedral of Ice
Inside the Cathedral
Brine tube inspected by Julie
Julie watching a brine tube
Seal fight!! Watch the seal appear from the right and another one appears behind it - then they fight and you can hear what I think about that through my regulator.
Big crack in the ice
Julie going up
Julie on her safety stop at Evans Wall
Divers on the rock wall (Evans Wall) - Julie and Jennifer off in the distance
Brine tube to Bob - Evans Wall
Bob - Evans Wall safety stop
Standing on the ice
The rock wall part of Evans Wall
Two divers near the safety stop (I'm the one near the line, deeper) Bad grab from a video....but neat memory
Julie - Evans Wall
Stacy going up - Evans Wall
Carp shop folks watching us from the OB tube
Kevin and the sponge
A stake Paul must have put down
Jelly with a worm underneath
The gangplank and Kevin
Kevin and the seal cage
Kevin and the OB tube - Tina is inside watching us!
Tina!
Evans Wall!
Jennifer deep in the soft coral - Evans Wall and part of the rock wall
Soft coral - at 90 ft. Evan's Wall
Evans Wall - ground of ice - I demonstrate with my frozen hands - and then pan to Jennifer and the ice wall in the background
Evans Wall - ice wall!!
Jennifer swimming along the ice wall
Kamille and the ice wall
Jennifer and the ice wall
The ice wall
Urchin hats
Dragonfish
Big pycnogonid - Evans Wall
Carnivorous sponges
The gorgeous bottom at Evans Wall
Jelly!
Kamille goes up - Evans Wall
Ctenophore on the saftey stop
Fisher in the hole
Wesley, Sarah, and ? in the Ob tube
Three interesting nudibranchs
Tenaid??
Kamille
Julie and her favorite sponge again
The gangplank
You can see the gangplank here
Gangplank
Little Razorback
I'm naked with no home!
Tons of worms - Little Razorback
Clam siphons
Kevin and our lovely seal
I'm pissed off that you are here but I kinda like you
Settlement racks - Turtle Rock
The down line at Turtle Rock
Mama seal in the hole
Ray of light from the dive hole and Stacy
Turtle Rock
Arrival Heights
Homaxinella
Sponges are weird down here
Gangplank at Hut Point
Stacy at the Ob Tube
Hut Point - transect line
Kevin at the ice wall - Evans Wall. Steve Rupp's video.
Steve Rupp's video. Evans Wall - gorgeous - with some funny fish!
Kevin at Evans Wall - Steve Rupps video
Kevin - Evans Wall (Steve Rupp pic)
Kevin - Evans Wall (Steve Rupp)
Brine tubes - Steve Rupp, Evans Wall
Explorers Cove - New Harbor
Top of one of Paul's floaters - New Harbor
Crinoids
Miss Piggy the anemone
Miss Piggy and her scallop pile
One hungry anemone
Jennifer and Kamille
Fan sponge
Urchin hat
Munched on?
Little Razorback seal and Kevin and Stacy
Close up! listen!!!
Julie from inside the Ob Tube (Wesley and friends took the picture)
Kevin and Julie (from the Ob tube)
