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Perfect weather for an oceanographic research expedition. (Photo Credit: CIOERT)

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A large goosefish lies in wait for a meal. The thin line on top of its head is a slender fin ray that can...

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Scientist Esther Guzmán is ready to process the last, unique sample of the cruise! (Photo Credit: CIOERT)

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A field of broken rib bones of an extinct dugong, easily a hundred feet across. We have seen these before...

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The Leg 2 scientific party gathers in front of UCONN’s K2 ROV at the end of cruise, safely back in port at...

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Grad student Richard Mulroy retrieves a suction sample from the K2 while scientist Esther Guzmán is...

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Scientist Esther Guzmán enjoys her work! Here she is processing samples for use in HBOI’s drug discovery...

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This is the only specimen we saw of the oddly-shaped Caribbean rough shark. It may be the first record of...

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Grad student Noelle Notarnicola and biologist Stephanie Farrington are pleased with the successful...

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We never know what you are going to find in our samples … especially on the last day of the cruise! (Photo Credit: CIOERT)

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Biologist Stephanie Farrington taking one of the last deck photos, of a starfish, from our last K2 dive. (Photo Credit: CIOERT)

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One of the common deep-water fishes in many of the habitats we have visited: the grenadier (or rattail)...

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A cluster of unknown "mushroom" sponges on dead coral rubble, with a feathery hydroid upstaging...

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Colonies of the deep-water reef-building coral, Lophelia pertusa, on a substrate of dead coral colonies...

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A rugged blackened limestone outcrop with sponges, octocorals, several orange crinoids (Comatonia...

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A pair of deep-sea golden crabs, Chaceon fenneri, mate under a limestone ledge. The male is much the...

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The seafloor near the base of the Pourtalès Terrace consists of broad areas and tongues of rippled sand...

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Three FAU graduate students are on Leg 2 (from left to right): Richard Mulroy, Noelle Notarnicola, and Courtney Kehler. (Photo Credit: CIOERT)

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