Videos and fly-throughs from the 2006 Mariana Arc expedition

2006 Videos:

The edited video clips show highlights from dives with the JASON II remotely operated vehicle on submarine volcanoes in the Mariana Arc. These movies are larger format versions (480 x 360) of the video clips available on the NOAA Ocean Exploration web site, along with images and logs from the expedition.

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Videos
Glowing red eruption. Quicktime 26.5 MB Windows Media: 8.2 MB		NW Rota 1
		Brimstone Pit Eruption This is the first time that glowing lava has ever been witnessed from a submarine volcanic eruption! In this case, the lava is rising in the vent so fast that a small glimpse of red glow can be seen intermittently before it crusts over or is blown apart. What a sight! Do you think the scientists were a little excited? View all Brimstone Pit videos

Shrimp hitching a crab for a ride. Quicktime: 18.5 MB Windows Media: 6.8 MB		Crab Ride One of the carnivorous shrimp resident at NW Rota-1 volcano catches a ride on a crab that is passing by. View all NW Rota 1 Biology videos

Molten sulfur lake. Quicktime: 18.4 MB Windows Media: 7.0 MB		Daikoku
		Sulfur Lake Molten sulfur and volcanic gases are bubbling out of a vent along the far wall of Sulfur Cauldron and keep the partially crusted surface of the pond undulating. Sometimes the heaving is so great that pieces of crust near the vent break off, tip on end, and are pulled downward by the convecting currents in the pond.

Flatfish at Daikoku. Quicktime: 17.6 MB Windows Media: 7.0 MB		Flatfish A dense group of tonguefish on the sedimented seafloor at Daikoku. The fish are more active than they appear at first glance. View all Daikoku 2006 videos

Sulfur pools . Quicktime: 21.2 MB Windows Media: 8.1 MB		Nikko
Sulfur pools . Quicktime: 21.2 MB Windows Media: 8.1 MB		Sulfur Pools When Jason tries to sample a rock, it sinks through the thin crust on the lake of molten sulfur and a crab barely survives the experience! At the end of the dive we found that part of the Jason frame had also broken through this crust and was coated in sulfur. View all Nikko 2006 videos

Tropical life at shallow seamount. Quicktime: 21.4 MB Windows Media: 8.1 MB		East Diamante
		Tropical Life A multitude of tropical life exists at the shallow Aquarium site. View all East Diamante 2006 videos

Mussels and shrimp. Quicktime: 16.9 MB Windows Media: 6.5 MB		Eifuku
		Mussels In addition to the dense colonies of mussels at NW Eifuku, there are also the same two species of shrimp that we found at NW Rota-1 (the volcano we found to be actively erupting). However, at NW Eifuku the two shrimp species live in different habitats separated from one another, whereas at NW Rota-1 they are found. View all Eifuku 2006 videos

Flying squat lobsters. Quicktime: 20.6 MB Windows Media: 8.2 MB		Seamount X
		Flying Squat Lobsters Squat lobsters (galatheids) in "flight" at Seamount X.

Snails, crabs,and shrimp. Quicktime: 21.2 MB Windows Media: 8.1 MB		Forecast
		Snails and shrimp Intensely shimmering water vents from the seafloor atop Forecast seamount. The temperature probe on Jason II measured temperatures as high as 200 degrees C at nearby vents. Snails and shrimp have colonized the site and a grazing on chemosynthetic bacteria. Jason's suction sampler is used to collect some of these animals for analysis in the lab on board the ship.