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Able to share some of the wonderful samples we have been collecting during IceDivA2. Thought Kevin Kocot might enjoy this one in particular! Approximate length 6-7cm #Scaphopoda

Good morning twitter peeps! Arriving at our final station with 20 degrees and an incredible sunrise! Nearly time for CTD and 24 hours bathymetric mapping to scout locations for our next OFOS deployment at 17:00 CET tomorrow!

Dive alert! We are getting ready for our next OFOS dive! Follow us live from 18:00 CET at youtube.com/watch?v=PztC7m… SENCKENBERG iAtlanticEU GEOMAR

just now at seafloor - follow us via youtube.com/watch?v=6YMncQ… SENCKENBERG iAtlanticEU GEOMAR

We see much less litter on this dive than on previous dives this expedition. All is being logged in our new litter-map produced by @_MSchumacher_ - check it out! live updated right after OFOS dives! arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer…

This present dive at the abyssal plain has large patches of several holothurians (several also in one frame)... Why? Maybe it is the season for finding partners for them? Maybe they exchange gossip? We also see traces og them (and poop from them..) (join us - we are still live!)

Large plastic-litter on the sea-floor. Sad sight. We will for sure add this in the litter-map. For now we hope for more holothurians and less litter.

Large piece of plastic litter observed during our ongoing dive. appr 3000m depth, and we would like to see living animals and no more litter. Sad sight.

That concludes our night-dive in sea-cucumber land at 3100m depth. Tomorrow we will again put the OFOS in the water for our last dive - at 09:30 CET - we will post the link here shortly before the dive. Stay tuned! Pic of the "sea of holothurians" as last view

All or finished dives and the live stream for our dives can be found at the Briese-channel youtube.com/channel/UCb5NV… We look forward to seeing you again tomorrow for our last live-dive at 0930 CET (add time for going down appr 3000m if you want to wait for the seafloor...

Back up and ready for the next ofos dive down a seamount on this beautiful morning! Running a little behind schedule with in water time expected around 10:45 CET

DiveAlert! Our OFOS is going into the water now - and in approx 2800m watercolumn we will be at the seafloor in our last dive for this expedition. Join us live at youtube.com/watch?v=amBZj7… SENCKENBERG iAtlanticEU GEOMAR #deepsea #benthos

And we are at the seafloor! Now excitement starts - join us live at youtube.com/watch?v=amBZj7… SENCKENBERG iAtlanticEU GEOMAR #DeepSea #benthos #seamount

Exciting dive on a steep seamount. Lots of soft corals, sponges and associated fauna. Still lots of time to join us live! #DeepSea #seamount #benthos #corals SENCKENBERG iAtlanticEU GEOMAR

nice #corals on the old lava in our #deepsea #seamount today. Steep hill now, downlooking OFOScamera makes it look like a hanging garden.. ;)

Thanks to all who have followed our live dives through our IceDiva2-expedition. Today was our last dive for now, but if you didn't manage to view while we were live, or you want to see something again, check out youtube.com/channel/UCb5NV… SENCKENBERG iAtlanticEU #DeepSea #benthos

So happy this paper is finally out! Thanks to Karlotta Kuerzel and the team behind IceAGE_RR, we can now figure out all the ins and outs of a genus that is dear to my heart, 𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴, in the deep sea around Iceland!

🚨 ‘Major Discovery’ Beneath #Antarctic Seas: A Giant Icefish Breeding Colony🌊 Scientists discovered a #mammoth nesting ground with an estimated 60 million icefish nests in the Weddell #Sea.❗Read more 👉 bit.ly/3GKWGlm

Our new article about habitat variability and fauna- zonation on the Ægir Ridge in the deep Norwegian Sea is out PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment peerj.com/articles/13394 -thanks to all coauthors for great work and fun! #Biodiversity #ConservationBiology #Ecology #MarineBiology #EnvironmentalImpacts

I am delighted to announce our BIIGLE manual for ecologists is finally out. Hope you find it useful. We will be providing online training sessions very soon so look out for information on how to register. zenodo.org/record/7728927…