Bioluminescence and Biodiversity Expedition 2007
July 27 - August 1, 2007
July 27, 2007 (Departure date)

Here you can see Rebecca Helm (a summer intern at MBARI) working in the laboratory with some of the animals that have been collected with the ROV.
The ROV Tiburon launched just after lunch and traveled to a depth of 1600 meters (~4800 feet). Some of the sighting highlights include beautiful jellies, vampire squid, a gulper eel and big red siphonophores. It takes the skillful eye of our chief scientist, Steven Haddock to spot these amazing animals as the ROV grazes through the plentiful marine snow. Once an organism is spotted, the Tiburon pilots gently maneuver the samplers to collect the animal for further observations at the surface.
