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"The ocean... offered us an incessant and infinite display of its most marvelous treasures"
—Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

2004 Field Season Highlights Multimedia Gallery Home
bamboo coral
Bamboo coral
photo: Liz Baird
Chaceon crab
Chaceon crab
photo: Liz Baird
sub returns after sunset
Sub returns after sunset
photo: Liz Baird
Katie in sub's stern compartment
Katie in the sub's stern (aft) compartment
photo: Art Howard
"squishy" hermit crabs: an anemone covers each shell
"Squishy" hermit crabs:
an anemone covers each crab's snail shell
photo: Liz Baird
glass sponge with yellow polyps
Glass sponge with yellow polyps
photo: Liz Baird
Anemone
Anemone
photo: UNCW
Bioluminescent comb jellyfish feeding
Bioluminescent comb jellyfish feeding
photo: NOAA
George & Jimmy climb into sub
George Yeargin and Jimmy Nelson prepare to climb into sub's stern compartment
photo: Liz Baird
Munida crab
Munida crab
photo: Liz Baird
sponge & Lophelia coral
Sponge & Lophelia coral
photo: UNCW
black coral
Black coral
photo: Katie Cartwright
view of lionfish from sub
Lionfish photographed from sub
photo: UNCW
Martha sorts the catch
Martha sorts otter trawl catch
photo: Liz Baird
crab caught in otter trawl
Crab caught in otter trawl
photo: Art Howard
R/V Cape Fear
UNCW's R/V Cape Fear
photo: Liz Baird
Lophelia coral
Lophelia coral
photo: Art Howard
spiny oyster
Spiny oyster
photo: Liz Baird
siphonophore
Siphonophore
photo: NOAA
Laemonema melanurum: also called coral hake
Laemonema melanurum:
also called "coral hake"
photo: UNCW
Scientists pluck polyps from bamboo coral
Scientists pluck polyps from bamboo coral
photo: Liz Baird
Bathynectes longispinus crab
Bathynectes longispinus crab
photo: UNCW
Art films action on deck
Art films action on deck
photo: Liz Baird
brittle star
Brittle star
photo: Art Howard
chain dogfish, a kind of catshark
Chain dogfish
photo: NOAA
goosefish
Goosefish
photo: NOAA
Liz photographs an urchin
Liz photographs a sea urchin specimen
photo: Art Howard
engine room door
Engine room door
photo: Art Howard
purple seastar
Purple seastar
photo: Katie Cartwright
hagfish: also called "slime eels"
Hagfish:
also called "slime eels"
photo: UNCW
two anglerfish
Monkfish: also known as an anglerfish
photo: NOAA
blackbelly rosefish
Blackbelly rosefish
photo: NOAA

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