Photo & Video Log
This page contains photos and videos taken during the Olympic Coast 2006: Exploration for Deep-Sea Coral Communities in Washington that took place May 22 - June 4, 2006. Click on any image to view a larger version and for additional information.
(HR) = "High Resolution" images available.
Images
June 3
Coral colonies come into view on the pilot's monitors.
June 3
Primnoa colony with Florometra crinoids and Gorgonocephalus basket stars at its base.
June 3
Looking down on the Primnoa colony you can see redbanded and darkblotched rockfish nestled in the branches.
June 3
Primnoa colony “ornamented” with rock fish.
June 3
A black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes) glides across the ocean.
June 3
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching.
June 3
A stylized map of the ‘Big Eddy’, the seasonal eddy formation occurring within the boundary waters of the U.S. and Canada.
June 3
A satellite image of the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state and the southern portion of Vancouver Island, Canada
June 2
A dump site of partially burned waste with soda cans, a cloth bag and netting.
June 2
Lost fishing gear - possibly a crab pot and mooring.
June 1
Co-PI Ed Bowlby working the night shift with ROV pilot Keith Tamburri.
June 1
Some of the individuals in this Lophelia pertusa colony have their tentacles extended.
May 29
Monitor screen showing a red target area, indicating a large hard object that was a monolithic boulder.
May 29
Lophelia rubble with single live polyp at base of the monolith.
May 29
The Olympic Coast 2006 science team celebrate the first cruise sighting of the hard coral Lophelia pertusa.
May 26
Curt adjusts the ROV's lasers that aid us in determining our field of view and the size of objects on the video screen.
May 26
The basket star Gorgonocephalus sp. atop a boulder surrounded by a pink Stylaster sp. hydrocoral.
May 26
The brittle stars, Ophiura sarsi, often carpet the seafloor of OCNMS.
May 26
The sunflower star Pycnopodia helianthoides, with stacked egg cases of a whelk.
