This page provides links to hundreds of images and videos of the living ocean, according to the following categories. Click on any image to view the entire collection.

Vertebrates: Fish / Skates and Eels / Sharks / Marine Mammals

Invertebrates: Sponges / Jellyfish, sea anemones / Corals / Sea stars, brittle stars, and sea urchins / Molluscs / Crabs and shrimp

Seafloor: Geologic features / Habitat / Bacterial Mats / Hydrates


Vertebrates

Band wing flyingfish A blackskate, a grenadier, sponges and anemones Cuban dogfish Breaching humpback.

Fish
Phylum Chordata

Skates and Eels
Phylum Chordata

Sharks
Phylum Chordata

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Invertebrates

large hexactinellid sponge Deep sea anemone corals video Giant red brittle star

Sponges
Phylum Porifera

Jellyfish, sea anemones
Phylum Cnidaria

Corals
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Anthozoa

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A close-up view of an Amphipod. Live nautiliniellid worm. Foraminifera

Molluscs, octopi
Phylum Mollusca

Crabs, shrimp
Phylum Arthropoda

Marine Worms
Phylum Arthropoda

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Seafloor

Chimney sample embedded with "fossilized" tubeworms. Thick clouds of fish around one of the basalt spires at Alderdice Bank Orange bacterial mat Outcrop of white gas hydrate
A herbarium sheet with red algae
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camera icon Ocean Explorer Channel Videos External Link

NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer 'Highlight' video offshore Kona, Hawaii   NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Extraordinary 'Highlight' video Sangihe Talaud Region Indonesia   NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: INDEX-SATAL 2010: Google Earth Virtual Tour   NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Extraordinary 'Highlight' video Sangihe Talaud Region Indonesia

camera icon NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer "Highlight" video offshore Kona, Hawaii

 

camera icon NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Extraordinary "Leg 2 Highlight" video Sangihe Talaud Region Indonesia

 

camera icon NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: INDEX-SATAL 2010: Google Earth Virtual Tour

 

camera icon NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Extraordinary "Leg 3 Highlight" video Sangihe Talaud Region Indonesia

             
NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer 'Highlight' video offshore Kona, Hawaii   Northeast Lau Response Cruise (NELRC) 2009: West Mata Prometheus Flame   Lophelia II 2008: Extraordinary Redeye Gaper Gulf of Mexico Deepwater   NOAA Titanic Expedition 2004: Breathtaking Wreck Footage

camera icon NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: Galápagos Rift, New Hydrothermal Vent Discovered 7/23/2011

  camera icon Northeast Lau Response Cruise (NELRC) 2009: West Mata Prometheus Flame   camera icon Lophelia II 2008: Extraordinary Redeye Gaper "Gulf of Mexico Deepwater"   camera icon NOAA Titanic Expedition 2004: Breathtaking Wreck Footage
             
Arctic 2002: Breathtaking Under-Ice Diving Photography Cayman Islands Twilight Zone 2007: Extreme SCUBA Diving Deep Scope 2004: A 'New Species' Of Squid Found at 1600ft Vailulu'u 2005: Nafanua Submarine Volcano 'Eel City'

camera icon Arctic 2002: Breathtaking Under-Ice Diving Photography

camera icon Cayman Islands Twilight Zone 2007: Extreme SCUBA Diving

camera icon Deep Scope 2004: A 'New Species' Of Squid Found at 1600ft

camera icon Vailulu'u 2005: Nafanua Submarine Volcano "Eel City"

             
Tour The NOAA Aquarius Underwater Laboratory The Hidden Ocean, Arctic 2005: Experience Under-Ice Diving Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: Brimstone Pit ROV Close Call Mountains in the Sea 2003: Discover New England Seamount's

camera icon Tour The NOAA Aquarius Underwater Laboratory

camera icon The Hidden Ocean, Arctic 2005: Experience Under-Ice Diving

camera icon Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: Brimstone Pit ROV Close Call

camera icon Mountains in the Sea 2003: Discover New England Seamount's

             
Deep Scope 2004: Six-Gill Shark 'Attacking bait at 1600ft' Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: NW Rota1 Brimstone Pit Erupting Gulf of Mexico 2003: Extraordinary Biological Diversity Deep Slope 2006: Alvin Submersible "Brine Lake Wave 7644 ft"

camera icon Deep Scope 2004: Six-Gill Shark 'Attacking bait at 1600ft'

camera icon Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: NW Rota1 Brimstone Pit Erupting

camera icon Gulf of Mexico 2003: Extraordinary Biological Diversity

camera icon Deep Slope 2006: Alvin Submersible "Brine Lake Wave 7644 ft"

             
Gulf of Alaska 2002: Exploring Alaska's Seamounts Highlights Gulf of Alaska 2002: Exploring Alaska's Seamounts Highlights Submarine Ring of Fire 2004: Extraordinary Champagne Vent Life on the Edge 2005: Investigating Gulf of Mex Coral Reefs

camera icon Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 2003: Monk Seal at 1781 feet

camera icon Gulf of Alaska 2002: Exploring Alaska's Seamounts Highlights

camera icon Submarine Ring of Fire 2004: Extraordinary Champagne Vent

camera icon Life on the Edge 2005: Investigating Gulf of Mex Coral Reefs

             
Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: Amazing Daikoku Tonguefish Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: Daikoku Volcano Molten Sulfur Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: Daikoku Sulfur Cauldron Volcano Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: Sulfur Cauldron Tonguefish

camera icon Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: Amazing Daikoku Tonguefish

camera icon Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: Daikoku Volcano Molten Sulfur

camera icon Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: Daikoku Sulfur Cauldron Volcano

camera icon Submarine Ring of Fire 2006: Sulfur Cauldron Tonguefish

             
Exploring the Inner Space of the Celebes Sea 2007: Close-Up! Submarine Ring of Fire 2004: Brimstone Pit Sulfur Eruptions! Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 2003: Unidentified Squid Bioluminescence 2009: Living Light on the Deep Sea Floor: Six-Gill Shark Mystery

camera icon Exploring the Inner Space of the Celebes Sea 2007: Close-Up!

camera icon Submarine Ring of Fire 2004: Brimstone Pit Sulfur Eruptions!

camera icon Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 2003: Unidentified Squid

camera icon Bioluminescence 2009: Living Light on the Deep Sea Floor: Six-Gill Shark Mystery

             
Islands In The Stream 2001: Whale Shark Close Encounter NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Commissioning The Hidden Ocean, Arctic 2005: BoreoAtlantic Armhook Squid Operation Deep Scope 2005: Eye-in-the-Sea Bioluminescence

camera icon Islands In The Stream 2001: Whale Shark Close Encounter

camera icon NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer Commissioning

camera icon The Hidden Ocean, Arctic 2005: BoreoAtlantic Armhook Squid

camera icon Operation Deep Scope 2005: Eye-in-the-Sea Bioluminescence

             
Lophelia II 2009: Seafloor Walking Graneledone Octopus Lophelia II 2008: Extraordinary Redeye Gaper Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Davidson Seamount Exploration 2002: "Deep Sea Toad" Robotic Arm Capture Islands in the Stream 2002: Bioluminescing Deep Sea Coral

camera icon Lophelia II 2009: "Seafloor Walking" Graneledone Octopus

camera icon Florida Coast Deep Corals 2005: Ocean Sunfish "Mola Mola"

camera icon Davidson Seamount Exploration 2002: "Deep Sea Toad" Robotic Arm Capture

camera icon Islands in the Stream 2002: Bioluminescing Deep Sea Coral

             
             
Bioluminescence 2009: 'How To Capture A Sea Cucumber'            

camera iconBioluminescence 2009: "How To Capture A Sea Cucumber"