Deep Sea Microbes

5 Carbonate slab collected from Costa Rica Margin seep, with associated worms, snails and limpets. (G. Rouse)

A piece of deep-sea carbonate ledge in the manipulator claw with attached white sulfide oxidizing bacterial filaments and anemone, from the Eel River Basin, off the California coast, 550 meters deep. (V. Orphan)

6 A piece of deep-sea carbonate ledge in the manipulator claw with attached white sulfide oxidizing bacterial filaments and anemone, from the Eel River Basin, off the California coast, 550 meters deep. (V. Orphan)

7 Submersible Alvin about to be launched from the back deck of the R/V Atlantis, Costa Rica Margin. (V. Orphan)

8 View of R/V Atlantis ship from inside Alvin after a successful dive to the methane seeps off of Hydrate Ridge, Oregon. (V. Orphan)

Deep Sea Microbes - Methane