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Copulating octopuses, feeding hermit crabs, squat lobsters and tiny crustaceans, sponges of all shapes and colours: Norwegian scientists are ecstatic about the fantastic images their high-definition camera has brought up from the deep during a four week long survey in the Barents Sea. Never before have they been able to watch life unfold on the seabed of the Arctic in such great details.

(http://www.everything-science.com/images/stories/eremitt.jpg)

Hermit crab with a sea anemone on its shell.

Whereas sampling with different kinds of equipment is normally used to collect information on bottom fauna, a specially designed video rig has allowed the scientists to film 80 kilometres of seabed during their survey. . .

Well, there is a nice site about this project, but it is Norwegian.

http://www.mareano.no/

Click on Bildegalleri (picture (image) gallery) on the left.  The images are mostly of ocean floor profiles.

In English, First MAREANO survey completed (http://www.ngu.no/modules/module_111/news_item_view.asp?iResponse=3&iNewsId=7783&iCategoryId=200)


Institute of Marine Research - http://www.imr.no/english/activities/mareano

Here is a relavant site - http://www.mar-eco.no/

MAR-ECO is an international exploratory study of the animals inhabiting the northern mid-Atlantic. Scientists from 16 nations around the northern Atlantic Ocean are participating in research of the waters around the mid-Atlantic Ridge from Iceland to the Azores. 

http://www.mar-eco.no/mareco_news/2006/bottom_fish_exploration

Marine biology would be a cool field to be in right now!

 :koala