Highlights: 00:00:53 White sea urchin 00:51:56 Hexactinellid sponge 02:09:07 Boulder with encrusting sponges

Marine snow obscured visibility at this site. Primarily soft sediment with pebbles and waves of shell hash in places and very little fauna. Stalked crinoids most prominent species throughout. Occasional drop stones/ rocks have encrusting sponges, ophiuroids and crinoids. Overall species numbers and diversity is poor.

START VIDEO [00:00:00]/17:25. [1] Sand/pebbles/possible pteropod hash with sparse epifauna, which include crustaceans and sea urchins. [00:00:00]-[00:07:00] ROV samples a pushcore. [00:25:00] [2] Pebbles/sand/occasional boulders. Encrusted sponges and glass sponges living on hard substrata. [00:34:00]-[00:49:00] ROV stops for sampling of Echinoidea sp.5 (Echinothuroidea). Vision obscured for a few seconds. [00:57:00] Vision obscured/too bright. [00:58:00] Vision back to normal. [01:01:00]-[01:11:00] [3] Boulders are frequent. [01:40:00] [4] Mud/boulders. Geodia cf. barretti is the dominant species on boulders. [18:15:00] [5] Now mud and pebbles are the substrata with sparse epifauna. Dominant species is Democrinus sp. OTU1103. [01:24:00] [6] Boulders and muddy sediment with sparse Echinoidea sp.5, Geodia cf. barretti and encrusted sponges. [01:26:00] Again muddy sediment and pebbles with dominant Democrinus sp.. [01:30:00] Muddy sediment and occasional boulders with encrusted sponges and Geodia cf barretti. [01:37:00] ROV stops for imagery of substrate. Vision obscured/mud cloud. [01:38:00] Vision clear. [01:39:00] ROV stops for imagery of crinoids and mud cloud. [01:41:00] ROV moves again. [02:09:00] ROV stops for imagery of encrusting sponges, Geodia cf. barretti and other sponge species living on boulder until END VIDEO [02:12:00]/19:37.