This beautiful sea anemone was seen during Dive 02 of the 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones expedition. Very little is known about this animal—it is likely an unknown species, genus, and even family. It is believed to have been seen once before on a NOAA Ocean Exploration expedition on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, but in the Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific Rewind

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As Christopher Kelley explains in this video, we don’t know much about planet Earth if we don’t know much about the deep sea. After several years of exploring the deep-sea environment in the Atlantic and Caribbean, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer crossed the Panama Canal into the Pacific in late 2022.

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Research Vessel Pacific Storm
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Multicorer
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Sampling Water From Niskins
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Explorer-in-Training Abby Norstad
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Sonar Imagery With Seeps
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REMUS 100 AUV
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NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in Hilo, Hawai‘i
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Collecting Gas Bubbles
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Explorers-in-Training Jumping
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Thomas Morrow on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer
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Calibrating the AUVs
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Deploying an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
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Pole-Mounted Multibeam Sonar
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Cusk-Eels and Tubeworms