Exploring the Microbial Mats of Quinault Canyon | Nautilus Live
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Ethereal methane seeps and microbial mats lend to a seemingly unearthly seascape in Quinault Canyon, located within the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Washington State. Over the course of several days, E/V Nautilus researchers explored and sampled this biologically diverse and ecologically rich region where life is characterized by methane seeps, areas in the rock bed where the gas seeps out into the surrounding waters.
Methane seeps form unique habitats driven by complex systems that provide resources to animals living in this seemingly inhospitable seafloor. While diving here, we visually captured bubbles emanating from the seafloor and collected sediment and microbial communities using a scoop, slurp, and push core sampling techniques.
Bright, white clam shells reflecting the lights from ROV Hercules revealed a treasure trove of organisms that rely on these methane seeps for life sustenance. Here, aggregations of clams and tubeworms are fueled by the release of methane from the seafloor.
It’s not just invertebrates that call these depths home. Layers of microbial mats, deep-sea carpets of microorganisms like bacteria and archaea, feed off of the chemicals produced by methane seeps to create oxygen in a process known as chemosynthesis. While diving in Quinault Canyon, we came across a “peachy” microbial mat whose orange-hued coloration is theorized to mean that bacteria contain a heavier concentration of hydrocarbon.
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These highlights are so relaxing they take me away from the surface life I love it.
@kapa1611
3 жыл бұрын
ya, they are in luck here, down in the muck here, under the sea
I just love it when the geeks geek-out! LOL, and the fish totally photo-bombing it. Seriously, what a beautiful environment--hiding deep at the bottom of the ocean just now being seen by us. Perfect musical score for this as well.
HELL YES GET THOSE TINY ORGANISMS LET'S GOOOOOOO
@carto4028
3 жыл бұрын
YEAH WOOOOOO YES YES YES THEYRE SO TINY! YEEEEES
@amingo9100
3 жыл бұрын
YES YES YES USA USA USA GET EM GETEM
The best part of these videos is listening to all the scientists gush about everything and joke around- they all seem to be having the time of their life!
You guys and gals on crew have such a wonderful time, makes me wish I had taken a marine geology track all those years ago... Thanks for doing these uploads, and thanks for being excited about your “work”!
If I have any complaint to make about these videos, its that they're too short. Keep up the amazing job, people!
Amazing footage, I've never seen a live microbial mat like this before.
@Spudcosmiccc
3 жыл бұрын
You've got one that lives on your teeth that you brush off each day called plaque
@kapa1611
3 жыл бұрын
@@Spudcosmiccc 🤯
Love these videos - just wish they were longer !! 🥰
The music you've added in the background is so serene, it makes the video 10 times more relaxing, almost meditative haha. I love it
i love the views below recreational dive limits.
Very interesting! Thank you for your dedication to this channel!
Cool footage! You just found yourself a new subscriber who, I might add, has learned a new word for today: Acharax, which is a genus of mollusks. Binomial nomenclature for the win!
Lovely editing, great content. Of course, I want MORE, but I understand that putting together these six-minute gems takes time, so I'll try to be patient.
awesome thank you!
I really love watching your videos, as I want to study marine biology when I get older, so your videos really show me what it is like to be a marine biologist. Also they are really relaxing.
That was beautiful. Thank you.
That was a strange yet mesmerizing slurp @.......I dunnoo almost halfway through the vid. I’ve said it countless times but I’ll say it again your channel is the best lil cosmos on KZread, period
Beautiful Thank You ♾😭🌈🐳♥️
I’m super curious about something. So Each time you go down there, do you usually find New Species? Not just 🐠 but smaller organisms as well
This has to be one of the best jobs in the world!!! 😯❤
4:27 (comb jelly?) coming to say hi
Love this. Y'all are basically completing oceanic alien abductions!
Super interesting!!!
When are you guys getting that 3d camera on that fancy submarine of yours ? Haha
Awesome!
This must be the coolest job ever
Why would anybody dislike anything this channel posts? Are they living under a rock?
what is the origin of Ethereal methane? Something like a volcano?
Gracias por los subtítulos en español
To think 3 Billion years ago, to the Cambrian explosion...The ocean, or planet earth was dominated by microbial mats like this...
Yay bubbles!
Why isn't everyone subbed to these guys!
Can anyone tell me what the spheres on the craft are?
It seems like they didn't sample the orange mat. Does anyone know why?
I have no idea what you are talking about . But your enthusiasm is wonderful !
Did anyone see the polychaete at 2:11 ??? Cuz I don't see it
@debbiehenri7170
3 жыл бұрын
I had a look (having to expand the screen to full size on my laptop), and all I could see was a pinkish 'jelly bean' shaped thing a little way to the right of the clam. If this was it - I'm amazed it was spotted at all.
@andrewfleenor7459
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I think it was the tiny pink thing.
I like to watch your live stream, it feels like I get to explore the seafloor with you. Now, am I the only one who finds the sea floor to be around 90% disappointing 5% meh and 5% astounding? It's just sand, sand, white stick, sand and the occasional pink thing that isn't really doing anything. Well, at least when I'm watching.
DID I MISS THE LIVE?????? D:
The bubbles being generated by the mats are co2? Or ?
Bubbles bubbles
europa's ocean may loo the same
@kapa1611
3 жыл бұрын
i wonder if our scientists would be as funny tho?! xD
How deep are they?
@jaymesnin
3 жыл бұрын
I thought they said 1,500 meters but dont quote me on that. It was 3am an i was half asleep lol. I kno they said it was deep cus they were pointing out the remote sub was mechanicaly working slow. Im assuming because of the pressure
Hey I love the music and the ocean. I got a big question can you guys check out the 👉Baltic Sea ANOMALY👈???? I think everyone who watches will appreciate it greatly. TY 🖖👽🛸
I need some of these microbes to help grow our cannabis
These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
I want a neptunia
Still no Cameras on the arms yet then?
@andrewfleenor7459
3 жыл бұрын
Not exactly what you want, but sometimes they put a different angle ("bubble cam", I think?) on channel 3.
where is the Megalodon😱
Every single thing taken from the ocean has a negative impact.
@kab6754
3 жыл бұрын
And everything we do on the surface increases that impact. It's about balance, taking what's needed and nothing more.
@CoinsAndCapsaicin
3 жыл бұрын
Their collected samples will have no impact at all. They're very careful, as you can see.
@jtktomb8598
3 жыл бұрын
It actually has an extremely positive impact has it will be studied for science and needed to learn how to protect these ecosystems
@debbiehenri7170
3 жыл бұрын
Every plastic bottle, bag , crate , oil drum and broken fishing line thrown casually into the sea has a far, far greater negative impact. Better to draw a few little living samples from the ocean and test them for various reasons - including 'our' general impact on the ocean - rather than just to look around with an ROV, make remarks, and keep their fingers crossed that everything's okay and will still be there when they next return. It's scientific analysis of sampling like this which produces papers that inform fellow scientists, the politicians and the general public about the health of our oceans, so don't begrudge it, even if it does look a little rough at times (I know, I'm holding my breath and cringing when I see those scoops go in too). If you want to offset the miniscule amount of temporary harm the team did here, spend the next week being mindful of the amount of energy you use, the products you buy (esp with regard to packaging), recycle wisely, pick up litter (carefully, with gloves!), go on a beach clean with the family/friends (you'll love those if you've never been before), and/or maybe sow or plant a tree or native wild plant. Might I recommend you also watch Ocean Rescue Namibia's channel - to see really great work being done by volunteers, and to see a small degree of some of the terrible impact humanity has on sea creatures. Some of the videos can be rather horrific at times, and dangerous for the volunteers at others, but the guys could do with the extra views to help bring their work to the well-deserved attention of many more people.
@jaymesnin
3 жыл бұрын
Lol you know how big the ocean is? This has abosolutley no impact.