Up Close with a Graneledone Octopus
Our Corps of Exploration spotted this octopus over 2,600 meters (8,530 feet) deep at the Cascadia Basin site of Ocean Networks Canada’s NEPTUNE observatory. Tentatively identified as a deep-sea Graneledone pacifica, ROV Hercules provides us all a clear view of the cephalopod's shifting body texture and tentacles covered in suckers for grasping prey. Spending over eight-minutes with the team (one minute for every arm!), learn more about the anatomy, and lifecycle of octopuses with this fan-favorite invertebrate in this video.
Our NA151 expedition partnered Nautilus with Ocean Networks Canada to support installation and maintenance of the NEPTUNE observatory, an 800-kilometer (500-mile) loop of fiber optic cable located off the west coast of Canada.
Ocean Networks Canada Maintenance and Exploration
For this expedition, we take a trip north to provide support to Ocean Networks Canada’s (ONC) wired seafloor observatory off the west coast of British Columbia where deployed technologies gather thousands of observations about dynamics across an entire tectonic plate.
