Description: White asteroid sp. identified by Anna Dilman Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow (id on 26 June 2013) Item Type: Image Title: Bathybiaster vexillifer Copyright: SERPENT project Species: Bathybiaster vexillifer Behaviour: Asteroid was disturbed by ROV and then it began to bury itself within the sediment over several minutes Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of Shetland -- LagavulinNorth Sea -- West of Shetland -- Lagavulin Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 1567 Latitude: 62 deg 39' 22" N Longitude: 1 deg 07' 33" W Countries: UK -- West of Shetland Habitat: Benthic Rig: Stena Carron Project Partners: Chevron, Oceaneering ROV: Magnum Deposited By: Miss Moira MacLean Deposited On: 19 November 2010
Description: White asteroid Bathybiaster vexillifer. Identified by Anna Dilman Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow on 26 June 2013 Item Type: Image Title: Bathybiaster vexillifer Copyright: SERPENT project Species: Bathybiaster vexillifer Behaviour: Asteroid was disturbed by ROV and then it began to bury itself within the sediment over several minutes Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of Shetland -- LagavulinNorth Sea -- West of Shetland -- Lagavulin Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 1567 Latitude: 62 deg 39' 22" N Longitude: 1 deg 07' 33" W Countries: UK -- West of Shetland Habitat: Benthic Rig: Stena Carron Project Partners: Chevron, Oceaneering ROV: Magnum Deposited By: Miss Moira MacLean Deposited On: 19 November 2010
Collected from Puget Sound sediments and photographed by the Washington State Department of Ecologys Marine Sediment Monitoring Team. For more information about this teams work visit: www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/eap/psamp/index.htm.