Title: Chemo Tubeworms
Description: Viosca Knoll is an elevated salt dome with dormant and active chemo-seeps. Where hydrocarbons are actively escaping from the substrate, dense clusters of tightly entwined vestimentiferan tubeworms grow. As the submersible approaches, it disturbs a Blackbelly Rosefish (Helicolenus dactylopterus), and a Conger Eel (Conger oceanicus).
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Date Taken: 9/18/2005
Video Producer/Videographer: Dr. Ken Sulak (vog.sgsu@kalusk), , U.S. Geological Survey
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Open-File Report 2008-1148 & OCS Study MMS 2008-015
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Tags: VioscaKnoll biotopes fish invertebrate ocean reef