Dr. Tammy Frank, aboard NOAA RV Pisces many miles off the coast of Rhode Island, is part of a science team surveying deep sea life. They brought up another paper nautilus, with the mama inside. Very cool! Thanks for sharing Dr. Frank.
Category Archives: Postcards from the Deep
Transparent baby eel
More fun photos from Dr. Frank. The waves are still rocking and rolling, but they’re finding some cool critters like this eel larva. 
Transparency is a common camouflage in the deep. What better way is there to become invisible then to be see-through!
Scientists at work
More photos from Dr. Tammy Frank sent from somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
A rare find…
WhaleTimes Board Member Tamara Frank, PhD from Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center (Dania Beach, Florida) is out to sea and sharing her adventure with us.
A hurricane off the Atlantic coast has created some rough weather, but the science team aboard the NOAA RV Pisces has still had some success. The cruise is the deepwater biodiversity cruise off the Bear Seamount.
Paper nautilus shell brought up from deep
As they study populations in the deep, one of the trawls brought up a rarely seen paper nautilus with the shell in still intact. Beautiful! Little is known about this delicate cephalopod.
Thanks Tammy for sharing the photos.
more to come…