Highlights: 01:47:59 Anglerfish - Lophius piscatorius 02:19:50 ROV collects Madrepora

Hard sea bed with scattered rocks, boulders which became vertical at points with exposed bedrock and escarpments. Lophelia and Madrepora are abundant in extensive coral rubble fields. Common species include rabbit fish, eels, cerianthids, holothurians, googly eyed cod and echiurans. Echiurans are numerous on carbonate outcrops. The fly trap anemone, Phelliactis hertwigi, the spiny scorpion fish and lamellate sponge occur. The holothurian, cf. Laetmogone, are numerous on the featureless sediment, small white urchins and cerianthids are also present. Towards the end of the dive there are areas of carbonate outcrops and rough ground interspersed with soft featureless sand with many small eels and numerous chimeras.

START VIDEO [00:00:00]. ROV stops for sampling 2 pushcores. [1] Mud flat/gentle up slope. Mud cloud is present/poor camera vision. Cidaris cidaris OTU211 on mud. [00:24:00] [2] Mud slope with cobble fields/sparse dead and living Lophelia pertusa reefs (<25% living). [00:28:00] [3] Isolated scleractinian colonies on soft bottom/mud (dead). [32:00:00] Mud slope again. [00:33:00] :00 shoal of eels (possibly Synaphobranchus kaupii OTU440). [00:45:00] [4] Steep mud slope with scattered cobbles/pebbles. [00:50:00] mud moderate slope. [00:53:00] [5] Carbonate cobbles on moderate slope. [00:58:00] [6] Holothurians OTU432 on mud gentle/moderate slope. [01:20:00] ROV stops for imagery of Lophelia pertusa reef on cobble and porifera encrusting blue OTU800. Then ROV checks on the machine itself and it spends some time at the bottom. [01:11:00] [7] Large cobbles on mud slope. [01:18:00] Isolated scleractinians on rocks. [01:24:00] Mud cloud. [01:29:00] [8] Encrusting sponges and isolated scleractinian colonies on rocks. [01:41:00] ROV is on top of vertical wall, on up slope. [01:51:00] [9] Vertical carbonate wall hosts isolated L. pertusa colonies. [01:56:00] [10] here L. pertusa reef is dense (<1% living). Sea urchins and anemones found on corals. [02:00:00] [11] carbonate bedrock hosts anemones. [02:05:00] coral reefs on slope. [02:08:00] [12] very sparse coral reef. Broken carbonate on steep slope. [02:17:00] ROV stops for imagery and sampling of Madrepora oculata OTU251. END VIDEO [02:23:00].