Highlights 2006 Images
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	Census researchers used a remotely operated vehicle to record the hottest marine temperature ever recorded - a 407°C hydrothermal vent. Credit: MARUM, University of Bremen ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 2.4MB).		This amphipod, Phronima sp., collected by Census researchers in the Sargasso Sea was the supposed inspiration for the movie Alien. Credit: R. Hopcroft, University of Alaska Fairbanks ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 1.1MB).		Census microbe hunters found more than 20,000 kinds of bacteria in a single liter of sea water. Credit: J. Fuhrman, University of Southern California ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 1.5MB).		Tracks of tagged sooty shearwaters as they made their way back and forth across the Pacific Ocean. Credit: TOPP ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 3.6MB).
	A jellyfish, possibly Cosmetirella davisi, swimming with tentacles raised found below 700 m of ice. Credit: AGAD, D. Rasch ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 1.1MB).		A 4 kg rock lobster, Palinurus barbarae, found off Madagascar. Credit: J. Groenevelt, Marine and Coastal Management, South Africa ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 3.4MB).		A "Jurassic" shrimp, Neoglyphea neocaledonica, believed extinct for 50 million years, found in the Coral Sea. Credit: B. Richer de Forges ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 5.1MB).		Eight million fish swimming in a school the size of Manhattan were found using a new fish sensor system. Credit: N. Makris ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 2.6MB).
	Southern Ocean isopods. Acanthaspidia left, and Munna right. Credit: W. Broekeland ©2005. Download hi-res version (zip file 1.2MB).		Southern Ocean isopods. Acanthaspidia left, and Munna right. Credit: W. Broekeland ©2005. Download hi-res version (zip file 1.9MB).		Diverse Galatheids and Chirostylids. Credit: R. Webber and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa ©2006, specimens not to scale. Download hi-res version (zip file 1.8MB).		A new species of komoki of the genus Ipoa found in the Weddell Sea. Credit: A. Gooday, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 3.6MB).
	A new species of squid, Promachoteuthis sloani, found along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Credit: MAR-ECO/R. Young ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 840K).		Kiwa hirsuta, the Yeti crab, a new species found near Easter Island. Credit: Ifremer/A. Fifis ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 1.4MB).		A new larvacean species found in the Canada Basin. Credit: R. Hopcroft, University of Alaska Fairbanks ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 886K).		An unidentified Arctic deep-sea sponge. Credit: B.Bluhm/I. MacDonald, NOAA ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 1.4MB).
	This shows the "rush hour" measured when animals rise to the surface to feed using the world's first long-term, full ocean-depth echo sounder moored 1,000 m deep near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Credit: MAR-ECO ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 596K).		Southern Ocean isopod, Munnopsis. Credit: W. Broekeland ©2005. Download hi-res version (zip file 1.8MB).		Acoustic receivers ready to be deployed to the ocean bottom to track migrating fish. Credit: POST © 2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 1.2MB).		Anemone crab with striped eye stalks collected during a Census expedition off Hawaii. Credit: A. Collins, NOAA ©2006. Courtesy of NWHIMNM. Download hi-res version (zip file 8.2MB).
	A proposed new species of eel pout of the genus Lycodonus collected on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Credit: P.R. Miller ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 2MB).		Field biologists download information from tags retrieved from seals. Credit: J. Bradley, www.bradleyphotographic.com ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 2.6MB).		Coral reefs in marine protected areas off the coast of East Africa. Credit: Satellite imagery, S. Andréfouët, ©2006. Download hi-res version (zip file 2.1MB).