Third image looks like a really spiny decapod shrimp & flytrap anemone. 4th might just be a carnivorous sponge.

It’s actually a calmer patch of water to deploy or retrieve submersibles. Alvin’s original mothership, Lulu, also had a moon pool.

That fish is a Stephanoberycid, either Stephanoberyx monae or Acanthochaenus lutkeni. The black head is normal for those species. Both are bottom-tending species. The behavior is anomalous, like it did get shocked by the salty brine, which often has toxic hydrogen sulfides in it, too.

Maybe contact Alex Dornburg at UNC Charlotte, he did quite a bit of that with our papers on holocentids and other things.

They’d be so proud of Marco’s support of Russia.

Blobby little fish continuously swishing its tail, while the current quickly blows it backwards.

Wonder if it is a young Sladenia?

Maybe, but it doesn’t look like any I’m familiar with. That pointed base, longer fishing rod, and tiny lure make it different from Chaunax that I know. Where & what depth?

My bad, the red is a stylasterine, but on closer look, the white is a scleractinian coral, maybe Lophelia.

That white coral you call a stylaster actually has a large calyx for the polyps. It probably is a scleractinian coral, maybe Lophelia with that branching pattern.

First 2 pics are of stylasterine lace corals. They are more closely related to fire corals than true stony corals. Their polyps are thin & tiny. The cups the polyps reside in look like pinholes.

It might be a close relative, Bathytyphlops marionae, which has very minute eyes.

Cool, cool! We’ve been catching many of those in our GoMx trawls.

DEEPEND cruises have caught them in pairs multiple times & Tracey Sutton also thinks they may be M/F pairs traveling together. I don’t know of any citable pubs, though.

I remember identifying specimens from the Naco Fm for a class Karl Flessa taught at U of A.

That picture could be South Florida. Seen similar on seawalls in state parks in Broward & Dade counties.

Awesome. I use Wisdom in my VZ, Con Bio, & Marine Bio classes. Thanks for the update.