Highlights: 00:56:25 Close-up of sea pen polyps 01:17:58 Hexactinellid sponge - Hyalonema with zoanthid anemones on stalk

A lot of marine snow over a very muddy, steep slope. Two Hyalonema sponges are observed, and one was sampled for zooanthids. Fauna are generally scarce and include seapens, cerianthids and occasional small sea stars. Fish (also scarce) include eels, grenadiers, some orange roughy and a cartilaginous fish.

START VIDEO [00:00:00]/08:21. Muddy slope with scarce epifauna. Excellent imagery of Pennatulacea and Hyalonema. [1] The entire dive is characterized by muddy slope with few epifauna. [00:01:00] ROV tests the seafloor for potential core sampling. [00:03:00] ROV stops for sampling two pushcores. [00:17:00] Here a few boulders with no epifauna. [00:37:00] Muddy upslope/very steep slope with scarce epifauna. [00:56:00] ROV stops for imagery of Kophobelemnon stelliferum. [01:17:26] ROV stops for imagery and sampling of Hyalonema sp. with brown zoanthids on its stem. [01:27:00] Muddy down slope with scarce epifauna. END VIDEO [01:30:00]/09:49.