Secrets of the Octopus Garden: High-tech tools reveal remarkable cycles of life in the deep sea

Deep below the ocean’s surface, just off the Central California coast, thousands of octopus gather near an extinct underwater volcano. The Octopus Garden is the largest known aggregation of octopus anywhere in the world. In 2018, researchers first observed thousands of pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) nesting on the deep seafloor at this site near Davidson Seamount.
Over a period of three years, MBARI and a team of collaborators used high-tech tools to monitor the Octopus Garden and learn exactly why this site is so attractive for deep-sea octopus. These images are from a 4K time-lapse camera we deployed at the site for six months, from March 2, 2022 to August 26, 2022. This advanced camera platform operates at extreme pressure two miles deep (3,200 meters). We captured and stored a photo every 20 minutes-the result is a remarkable peek into the cycle of life at this unique biological hotspot.
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Video credits:
Editor: Kyra Schlining
Science advisory: Jim Barry
Music: Technology (Motion Array)
Production team: Heidi Cullen, Kyra Schlining, Nancy Jacobsen Stout, Susan von Thun

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Thank you to All those at M.B.A.R.I for the Essential Work that you Do to Discover, Study,Learn,Share an Help to Protect these Wonders of the Blue World and your indepth look an enthralling knowledge shared to All of us Worldwide and close to home! We are so Grateful for You All an Everything you do and continue to do we appreciate it! We Must Protect All the OCEANS and the ENTIRE WORLD that depends upon an in the great deep blue world! ❤❤❤

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Cycle of life creative cruel yet somehow cosmic 🌌👌
Thank you again.

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Remarkable! I am not happy with the state of things in the US but you guys do a good job. Please continue :)

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Love these clips.

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I thought Ringo made that up

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Scary shit

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Amazing and depressing but cool to see

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Allahu EKBER

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i love and hate all the expose this is getting, because of course someone is going to send tourists there