This post by Steve Miles of Stony Brook University.

Today, we started the acoustic survey and the trawl survey. Despite incorrectly mounting the flow meter, the first trawl deployment was successful at a depth of 60 meters. Some of the more interesting animals included moray eel larvae, lobster larvae, flatfish larvae, mantis shrimp larvae, squid, deep-sea fish and a small fish with spines on its head with black and red spots that we could not yet identify.

We also found several small animals called pteropods that began to swim after some time of inactivity, to our amusement. Brandyn sang the words “wake me up before you go go” repeatedly for over twelve hours. This was not amusing. In the second trawl, we sent the net down to around 400 meters and caught two species of deep-sea shrimp, spoon-billed eels, and a large number of krill. We also lost our calibrating sphere when deploying the CTD and think a dolphin may have stolen it.