A lovely carnivorous or cladorhizid SPONGE! 5865m Ultra Deep Basin American Samoa #Okeanos #spongeThursday!

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A lovely decorative glass sponge with interesting bits! at 3807 m East Muliava seamount American Samoa, #okeanos
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Various taxa living on a dead sponge stalk-an ophiacanthid brittle star and a barnacle which have been quite common today. 3810 m East Muliava seamount American Samoa, #okeanos

Details from behind the sponge showing the convex structure.. showing off the lovely intricacies of the glass sponge stalk and etc. #okeanos about 2 to 3m tall #spongethursday

MORE shots of this Caulophacus sponge, about 50 cm diameter..and 3m tall! The fine details of the surface #okeanos #spongeThursday

WHOA. A BIG glass sponge, 3m (10ish ft.) tall and about 2m across, at 3825 m East Muliava seamount American Samoa, #okeanos

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OPHIUROID with gorgeous disk plates! 3864 m East Muliava seamount American Samoa, #okeanos

A deepsea goniasterid called Ahuastra! about 3866 m East Muliava seamount #Okeanos! They always seem familiar-but when I examine them later? so far every one has been new!

Glass Sponge! Polyopagon! Lobe like with a nice batch of glass holdfast fibers to the left! 3870 m East Muliava seamount #Okeanos

#OKEANOS HAS REACHED BOTTOM! here's a lonely squat lobster at 3870 m on the East Muliava seamount, American Samoa!

A very slender white sea anemone at 5390 m deep basin rock mound, American Samoa #Okeanos

A 5 rayed feather star at 5400m ! showing off some gravid pinnules on its arms! #Okeanos deep basin mound, American Samoa

BAMBOOO Coral, Bathygorgia reaching into the void! 5395 m deep basin rock mound, American Samoa #Okeanos showin' off those nice pinnate 8 tentacles!

SEA PIG! OINK OINK! 5385 m deep basin American Samoa #OKEANOS on a Saturday night!