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A grey and black stingray swims along the rocky bottom illuminated by the light of the submersible.

A Marbled Stingray (Taenurops meyeni) swims along the rocky bottom illuminated by the light of the submersible.

Species/Subject: Taenurops meyeni (Marbled stingray)
Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Taema Bank

In the foreground are three orange fan corals, and another is faintly visible in the background

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Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Taema Bank

Several corals ranging in color from white to yellow are affixed to the rocky substrate.

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Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Fagatele Bay

A cushion star that is hot pink with light pink dots on the sea floor behind a fan coral

Species/Subject: Cushion star
Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Fagatele Bay

A red batfish is crouched in an indentation in the slope of the seabed.

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Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Taema Bank

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Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Taema Bank

A small reddish octopus

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ta'u

ROV Hercules hovering just above the sandy bottom, illuminated by several of its own lights.

Species/Subject: ROV Hercules
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ta'u

ROV Hercules hovering just above the sandy bottom, illuminated by several of its own lights. The teather to ROV Argus can be seen approaching the foreground

Species/Subject: ROV Hercules
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ofu-Olusega

A small white crustacean on top of a light yellow sea sponge.

Species/Subject: Crustacean, Sponge
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Swains

A yellow and pink sea anemone on black substrate sparsely covered in sand.

Species/Subject: Anemone
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Swains

A red shrimp with very long antennae swims above the sandy bottom.

Species/Subject: Shrimp
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ofu-Olusega

A pink fan coral growing on a large, black volcanic rock.

Species/Subject: Coral
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ofu-Olusega

One of the mechanical arms of ROV Hercules holding a geologic sample.

Species/Subject: Hercules collecting a geological sample
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ta'u

One of the mechanical arms of ROV Hercules collecting a biological sample.

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ta'u

A bright yellow and light pink anemone on rocky bottom.

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ta'u

A yellow lobster and a pink fish on rocky bottom.

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ta'u

A small white and pink shrimp seen through the lattice of a white sponge.

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Aunu'u

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Aunu'u

A light yellow sponge with a shrimp crawling out of the top.

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Aunu'u

Two crabs on a white coral.

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Tutuila

eel

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Tutuila

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Seamount

ROV Hercules sampling the air bubbles erupting from a hydrothermal vent.

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Seamount

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Seamount

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ofu-Olusega

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ofu-Olusega

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Ofu-Olusega

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Seamount

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Seamount

Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) exploring the deep seafloor, illuminated by its onboard lights.

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
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A deep-sea frogfish with a yellow and red mottled body, textured skin, and whisker-like appendages resting on the rocky ocean floor.

Species/Subject: Frogfish
Attribution: NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2017 American Samoa
Site: ??

In the deepest darkest parts of the ocean floor, numerous electric blue-green and silver colored deep-sea eels swarm around an underwater hydrothermal vent.

"Eel City" is a unique deep-sea habitat in American Samoa, where eels thrive among hydrothermal vents on the Nafanua volcanic cone. Discovered in 2005, it stands out for its abundance of eels and scarcity of invertebrate life.Species/Subject: Deep-sea eels (Dysommina rugosa) ??
Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Nafanua cone, Vailulu'u Seamount

A reddish sea star holds on to thin deep sea coral branches, and stands vertically with an arm held out as if waving hello.

This deep-sea starfish, Atheraster arandae, holds on to thin coral branches near the ocean floor in American Samoa.Species/Subject: Deep-sea seastar (Atheraster arandae) ??
Attribution: NOAA Okeanos
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Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Vailulu'u Seamount

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Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Vailulu'u Seamount

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Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Tau

Species/Subject: Mesophotic seastar and corals
Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Fagatele Bay

Species/Subject: Mesophotic seastar and coral
Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Fagatele Bay

Species/Subject: Deep sea anemone
Attribution: Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Site: Rose Atoll

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Tutuila Ridge

Species/Subject: Shrimp
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Tutuila Ridge

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Outer Slope

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Unnamed Pancake Seamount

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u

Species/Subject: Brittle star and shrimp on a deep sea sponge
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Malulu Seamount

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Tutuila Ridge

Species/Subject: Frogfish
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Outer Slope

Species/Subject: Mola mola
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Manua Ridge

Species/Subject: Squat lobster in a coconut
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Unnamed Pancake Seamount

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Tutuila Ridge

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Tutuila Ridge

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Manua Ridge

Species/Subject: Frogfish
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Outer Slope

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u

Species/Subject: Deepsea shrimp
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u

Species/Subject: Squat lobster
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Unnamed Pancaked Seamount

Species/Subject: Brittle stars on a deep sea sponge
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Malulu Seamount

Species/Subject: Deep sea anemone
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Unnamed Pancake Seamount

Species/Subject: Squat lobster
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Outer Slope

Species/Subject: Gymnothorax undulatus
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Manua Ridge

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Outer Slope

Species/Subject: Deep Sea Anemone
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Malulu Seamount

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Outer Slope

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vaiolulu'u

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Outer Slope

Species/Subject: Deep sea Urchin
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Tutuila Ridge

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Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Outer Slope

Species/Subject: Deepwater stingray (Plesiobatis)
Attribution: Ocean Exploration Trust
Site: Vailulu'u Outer Slope

Species/Subject: Stalked crinoid
Attribution: NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2017 American Samoa
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Species/Subject: Red snapper
Attribution: NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2017 American Samoa
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Species/Subject: Brittle star on chrysogorgiid octocoral
Attribution: NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2017 American Samoa
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Species/Subject: Scorpionfish
Attribution: NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2017 American Samoa
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Attribution: NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2017 American Samoa
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Species/Subject: Bolosoma stalked glass sponge
Attribution: NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2017 American Samoa
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Species/Subject: Greeneye fish
Attribution: NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2017 American Samoa
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