<![CDATA[you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here?]]>you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? https://flipping.rocks/@nev/114959376410378452

well the next expedition started a few days ago! they're just a little bit north, in Uruguayan waters. mostly Uruguayan researchers, but a few folks from the Argentina one are returning! more info: https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/visualizing-the-deep-off-uruguay/

ROV SuBastian is currently streaming from Rio del Plata Cañón, 1700-1600m below sea level. here, well into the aphotic (lightless) zone, marine "snow" falls gently on a landscape of strange and brilliantly colourful creatures. current divestream: https://youtu.be/do9jTSkzr4w (see https://www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean/streams for all divestreams)

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/topic/10638173-ccd1-4ae7-a113-1db139829216/you-remember-the-viral-argentinian-deep-sea-expedition-i-was-tooting-about-hereRSS for NodeMon, 09 Nov 2026 16:00:50 GMTThu, 28 Aug 2025 02:21:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:29:38 GMT]]>Oh my god, it's full of stars

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115119369639002099https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115119369639002099Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:29:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:32:33 GMT]]>Side note: like Argentines, Uruguayans also seem keenly interested in what foreigners think of mate. 🧉

Chat is also irresistibly charmed by being referred to as "radioescuchas" (radio listeners) by the scientists. They also say "pibalvos", "pibalbis"…I do not know if it is slang or an in-joke I missed.

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Expedition website (en Español): https://uruguaysub200.udelar.edu.uy/
Schmidt Ocean page (in English): https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/visualizing-the-deep-off-uruguay/

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115114953218313854https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115114953218313854Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:46:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:01:14 GMT]]>The fish called "hake" in English has such a lovely Spanish name: la merluza.

In chat:
- "In my head the 'Titanic' song is playing"
- "The same thing is happening to me hahaha"

Someone else says their 82-year-old grandfather is very excited to see this because he once visited the ship on a school trip.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115113831598955545https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115113831598955545Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:01:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:35:45 GMT]]>OMG. Right now the ROV is visiting a naufragio (shipwreck)! The destroyer _ROU Uruguay_, originally a US Navy ship from WWII, was intentionally sunk in 1995 when it reached end of life.

Livestream & more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEoF066PDQ

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115113731409181688https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115113731409181688Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:35:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:28:55 GMT]]>Oh my goodness. At the very end of the stream, just as they were about to start hauling the ROV up, this beautiful octopus appeared and put on a show for the camera. How perfectly magical and serendipitous.

Video starts here: https://youtu.be/xjtyz-u9FK4?t=27808

edit: squid not octopus, thanks @MugsysRapSheet

edit 2: never mind I think it really is an octopus, see e. g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirroteuthidae

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115110165562206479https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115110165562206479Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:28:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:34:16 GMT]]>I did not want to learn that Uruguay, like parts of Canada, also has milk in bags by the ROV coming across a milk bag at the bottom of the ocean

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115109714759463766https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115109714759463766Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:34:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:28:58 GMT]]>They came across a chemosynthetic clam (edit: cf. family Vesicomyidae, thanks clamman) and chat lost its shit: "Habemus almeja!" "Almeja por Fabri!" (I think Fabrizio, the scientist whose birthday it is, was hoping for a clam?)

However to the dismay and confusion of both chat and scientists, it seemed to break into pieces as they were lowering it into one of the bio-boxes with the scoop.

It's an emotional rollercoaster down here.

(Chat, seemingly trying to find the silver lining, is getting hype about sediment: "ARENITA PARA LETI" ["sand for Leticia", the sedimentologist]. It's funny because it is nothing but sediment as far as the eye can see)

(cc @dantheclamman)

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115109693944409774https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115109693944409774Fri, 29 Aug 2025 02:28:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:10:13 GMT]]>Side note: I can't hear the very common Spanish word "entonces" without thinking of Toonces, the Driving Cat from SNL: https://youtu.be/5fvsItXYgzk

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115109148308572075https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115109148308572075Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:10:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:41:58 GMT]]>smh a menstrual cup at the bottom of the sea, truly no place on earth is safe from pollution /s

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115108565405391163https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115108565405391163Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:41:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:28:13 GMT]]>Some of the creatures encountered so far today in a very short time span:

- the very relatable-looking "lizard-fish", as chat declared
- someone called this squishy pink lump "albondiga" (meatball)
- a wonderfully vivid camarón
- chat dubbed this "tortafrita" (the Uruguayan version of the fried flatbread called sopaipilla).

once again, the current divestream is at https://youtu.be/xjtyz-u9FK4

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115108511330229124https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115108511330229124Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:28:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:16:18 GMT]]>oh shit guys we hit the edge of the map gotta turn back

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115108464462595400https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115108464462595400Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:16:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:10:53 GMT]]>oh shiiiiit today we're over 3000 km below sea level on the ABYSSAL PLAIN. The three words she really wants to hear: "Possible chemosynthetic environment." https://youtu.be/xjtyz-u9FK4

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]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115108207236050417https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115108207236050417Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:10:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Thu, 28 Aug 2025 03:26:20 GMT]]>awww it is the birthday of one of the scientists who has been on the mic answering questions and commenting on the stream, and they all sang "feliz cumpleaños" ("happy birthday") to him in the control room

one of the great things about streams like these (there are several organizations that do them!) is that they really humanize scientists for people who maybe thought of them as eggheads in white lab coats somewhere. you hear them joking, snacking, trying to figure out what they're looking at, cooing at a cute octopus, getting really excited about some obscure thing like a well-executed sediment sample.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115104257191887471https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://flipping.rocks/users/nev/statuses/115104257191887471Thu, 28 Aug 2025 03:26:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to you remember the viral Argentinian deep-sea expedition I was tooting about here? on Thu, 28 Aug 2025 03:04:33 GMT]]>also for some reason tons of the crabs have been mating? one of the scientists made a joke about the "kiss cam"

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