Highlights: 00:00:01 White echinoids 00:17:34 White sea cucumber 00:24:25 Cup corals 01:09:40 Octocoral polyps 01:22:50 Brisingid starfish

Of Note: Occasional dense patches of small white echinoids.

The seafloor was uniformly soft sediment with burrows. Fauna include ophiuroids, holothurians, stalked crinoids, and the occasional sea pen. Anemones including cerianthids and Phelliactis are common, with cup corals occurring frequently. Fish are not common and include eels and grenadiers.

START VIDEO [00:00:00]/11:21. Uniform biotope of gentle/moderate slope with occasional burrows and echinods. [1] [00:01:00] ROV stops for sampling 2 pushcores. [00:10:00] [2] Sparse epifauna including Ophiomusa lymani, Holothuroidea sp. 2, Ceriantharia and Echinus sp. on mud. [00:49:00] [3] Here sea urchin are frequently encountered living on mud. [00:50:00] Here aggregations of sea urchins dominate on soft sediment. Muddy slope continues for the rest of the dive. END VIDEO [01:23:00]/12:45.