Highlights: 00:23:04 Lamellate sponges on boulder 00:28:08 Red shrimp

Of note: Xenophyophores.

The seafloor at the base of this gentle slope is mixed sediment with some pebbles and cobbles. Erosion marks on the seafloor indicate movement of cobbles. Very little conspicuous fauna, but some small crinoids and the occasional Lepidion eques are present. Numerous tetrapod shells observed over this area and xenophyophores are abundant throughout.

START VIDEO [00:00:00]/16:34. Rippled sand/muddy/pebble slope with frequent Syringammina fragilissima on soft-bottom and a few lamellate sponges on hard-substrata. [1] ROV stops for sampling two pushcores. Here muddy with gravel/pebbles/pteropod shells. [00:31:00] [2] From here, the sediment becomes rippled and sandy with small/medium size pebbles and some small cobbles. Foraminifera dominate on sand and occasionally lamellate sponges are encountered on rock substrata. [00:47:00] Rippled sand/silt/mud with gravel and pebbles with few epifauna. [00:47:00] Glass jar. The rest of the dive is dominated by Foraminifera with sparse epifauna on pebbles/cobbles on muddy/rippled sand/pebbles slope. END VIDEO [01:13:00]/17:49.