Diving is like a box of chocolates...
Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 11:50AM …You never know what you’re going to get. In this video, the Johnson Sea Link (JSL) is recovered after the first dive of the Abrolhos2011 Expedition. Brazilian scientist Clovis Castro was aboard with HBOI scientist Shirley Pomponi.
Afterwards, the science team went to work processing invertebrate samples including gorgonians, the hard coral Lophelia, and a range of brittle stars, crinoids, urchins and miscellansous crustaceans
The Brazilian science team evaluates their first samples. L-R Gustavo Duarte, Clovis Castro, lead scientist Rodrigo Moura and Ronaldo Francini-Filho
Reporter Glenda Koslowski with Brazilian scientists (L-R) Gustavo Duarte, Clovis Castro, Rodrigo Moura and Ronaldo Francini-Filho
PhD student Gustavo Duarte takes Lophelia fragments for cultivation
Alex Bastos with a fine carbonate mud sediment core from 600m
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