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Hydrothermal vent anemones and shrimp in a vent field.

Hydrothermal vent anemones and shrimp in a vent field.
Hydrothermal vent anemones and shrimp in a vent field.
Hydrothermal vent anemones and shrimp in a vent field.
Hydrothermal vent anemones and shrimp in a vent field.
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German, Chris
Hydrothermal vent anemones and shrimp in a vent field.
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01/11/2012
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 56, No. 1, Pages 10-11:
Through the lens of remotely operated vehicle Jason, anemones and shrimp cluster around a hydrothermal vent along a site called the Piccard Field, 5,000 meters (16,404 feet) deep on the Caribbean seafloor during a 2012 expedition.
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Anemones and shrimp cluster around a hydrothermal vent on the Caribbean seafloor on an expedition in 2012. A team led by WHOI geochemist Chris German explored the deepest known hydrothermal vent site in the world named after Auguste Piccard, a Swiss explorer who invented the bathyscaphe, a free-diving deepsea submersible. The Piccard field is about 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) below the surface and home to vents that gush fluids reaching 400°C (750°F). The remotely operated vehicle Jason captured this image and gathered samples to study the geology, geochemistry, and biology along an underwater mountain chain known as the Mid-Cayman Rise.
R/V Atlantis cruise AT18-16, ROV Jason images.
Cruise intentions are to characterize the geology, geochemistry, microbiology and macrobiology of two new hydrothermal fields on the Mid-Cayman Rise: The Piccard hydrothermal field at ~5000m depth near 18° 33' N, 81° 43" W and the Von Damm hydrothermal field at ~2300m depth near 18° 23' N, 81° 48' W.
Photo courtesy of Chris German/WHOI/NSF, NASA/ROV Jason 2012, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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