Highlights: 00:17:19 Orange roughy, fishing line 00:34:25 Plastic litter 01:14:26 Fish 01:15:17 Two Neolithodes grimaldi 01:17:58 Bullseye cup coral 01:32:27 Purple sea urchin 01:39:20 Shark 02:02:00 White sea cucumber 02:13:07 Hexactinellid sponge - Hyalonema

Of note: Aggregates of juvenile holothurians.

Soft sediment, occasional fauna, include eels, grenadiers, holothurians (including Benthogone rosea), orange roughy and Hyalonema sponges. Aggregates of juvenile holothurians observed. Crabs, Lithodes are observed (one carrying another). No Pheronema observed.

START VIDEO [00:00:00]/00:31. The entire video is filmed on muddy moderate to steep slope with scattered epifauna. Remarkable holothurian aggregations encountered. Plenty of rubbish was found in this dive. [00:01:00] ROV stops for sampling two pushcores. [00:08:00] Here, muddy slope is covered with many small organisms including small sea cucumbers (<5 cm long). [00:09:00] Rubbish. [00:33:00] Animal marks on muddy slope. [00:40:00] Very blurred image of Harriotta haeckeli. [00:44:00] Extended aggregation of holothurians with a few Coryphaenoides rupestris swimming around. [00:57:00] ROV hovers on steep muddy slope. [01:47:00] Here a dead crustacean is filmed (poss Neolithodes grimaldii). END VIDEO 02:28. START VIDEO [01:57:00]/02:28. The second video shows the ROV on muddy slope, to validate niskin bottles functionality. [02:15:00] ROV tests niskin bottles (successful). Muddy slope for the entire video with a few Synaphobranchus kaupii and Galeus sp. swimming around the ROV. END VIDEO [02:20:00]/02:52.