Close-up photo of purple anemone.
Still image taken from video of a dive down to 5,000 meters (16,405 feet) on Mona Seamount near Puerto Rico, one of the deepest dives ever to reach the seafloor in that part of the world. Despite the depth of the dive, the site was not devoid of life. Media courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Exploring Deep-sea Habitats off Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

These short videos aren’t new, but I ran across them again in looking up some deep-sea related information. It’s so great to be able to see the amazing deep-sea diversity in the Southeast. I’m also thankful that NOAA efforts like the Okeanos Explorer, which make videos and share images to make this world more accessible to all of us.

Will this take you down a rabbit hole of looking at other pictures and videos? Probably. Will I apologize for that? Nope. It’s worth it.