Whale fall
October 2017
What's a whale fall? Find out in our video of this whale fall found in Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary!
Transcript
What's that up ahead?
It's awesome.
I don't know, we'll have to wait a little bit.
Might be another -- whale fall maybe? Oh, wow. I think it is.
What else would this be?
Woah, that's a big one. Oh, the bacteria!
It's so huge! Herc [the ROV] looks so tiny.
You want to measure this in Herc-lengths? Perfect application of the Herc-length!
What's a Herc-length? That is so cool.
What kind of whale would this be? This is a big whale.
This has got to be some kind of large baleen whale.
Maya from New Zealand -- she's saying that this is why hours of sea floor.
Yeah, it really is. All those people that decided to go to bed are gonna -- they're gonna regret their decision in the morning.
I put it as a five. I'm waking people up.
Are those shrimp or krill? [Laughter] Shrimp. I'm gonna say they're shrimp.
Argus cam is awesome too.
The front of Herc is what two and a half meters?
Can you do steps across it to measure it?
Crab carrying a crab! What are those two doing with each other?
Territory? Fighting? I don't know. Mating?
Did you say one five? Yeah, fifteen meters.
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