Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition! Swimming Cuke Video & MORE!

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Echinoderm Image & Video Highlights from the 2009 Bioluminescence Expedition! (from deep-sea Bahamas)

Video of the deep-sea SWIMMING holothurian Hansenothuria benti Miller & Pawson (graciously identified by Dave Pawson, Curator of Echinoderms at the NMNH!) shown here being captured by the Johnson Sea Link submersible!



Three Endoxocrinus maclearanus flank a purple sea fan with a snake star.

(Image from the Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition, NOAA/OER website)

The Deep-Sea brisingid starfish, Novodinia. Probably Novodinia antillensis...

(Image from the Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition, NOAA/OER website)

Stalked Crinoid in repose...(Image from the Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition, NOAA/OER website)

Dr. Charles "THE MAN" Messing. Crinoid expert, snappy dresser, thespian, and dude!! He discovered a new species while on this cruise ...

(Image from the Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition, NOAA/OER website)

You Tube Video from the Celebes 2007!

Brisingids! Deep Sea cukes! oh my!



From the Youtube blurb:

This 2007 research expedition for new species aboard the RV Presbitero began in the port of Manila and then south through the Sulu Sea to our study site, southeast of the Sulu Archipelago. The bottom falls off abruptly to the sea floor 5000 thousand meters below. Lying just north of the equator, the Celebes Sea is the center of the most biologically diverse area of the world's ocean.

Music from Momu-The Dive.

Video courtesy of Exploring the Inner Space of the Celebes Sea 2007 Exploration, Global Explorer, Deep Sea Systems International and Oceaneering International Inc, NOAA-OE.

(yeah its a bit much for one day-but its a pretty cool video!)