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A frame-grab from one of Argo II’s video channels showing a close-up view of part of the hydrothermal field. The narrow white tubes at upper right are tubeworms, and the tan colored animals on stalks may be sponges, but we are not sure. We are asking our vent biology shore-based colleagues, Dr. Cindy Van Dover of the College of William & Mary, and Dr. Tim Shank of Woods Hole Oceanographic, to help us identify them. We will let you know what they think they are.

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