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SERPENT uses oil and gas industry deep-sea robots to undertake biological and environmental research in the world's oceans.

NOC, Southampton, UK
Joined June 2009
One of our favourites from the deep water west of Shetland for #WorldOctopusDay!
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Ecological Role of an Offshore Industry Artificial Structure frontiersin.org/article/10.3…
Common Skate (Dipturus batis) at 1:58 and Cuckoo ray (Leucoraja naevus) at 2:17 in this highlights video from recent SERPENT Project ROV observations: youtu.be/LxUFwoUzJ6s #FlatSharkFriday
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A few ROV video highlights of marine life from SERPENT Project fieldwork at oil rigs working in 100-200 m water depth west of Shetland in 2016-2017 youtu.be/LxUFwoUzJ6s
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Looking for more footage of deep-sea life after #BluePlanet2? Here's some of our favourite videos from our archive: youtube.com/user/serpentproj…
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Looking forward to #BluePlanet2 on Sunday. This clip reminds us of an early @SerpentProject deep-sea observation youtu.be/jIfaxr8po20 xitter.cf/BBCEarth/status/926857…
Did you know? 👇 #BluePlanet2 this Sunday on @BBCOne
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Replying to @BBCEarth @BBCOne
Reminiscent of one of our early @SerpentProject deep-sea observations: youtu.be/jIfaxr8po20
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Jellyfish discoveries from @SerpentProject for #WorldJellyfishDay 1) "Flying Spaghetti Monster" siphonophore youtube.com/watch?v=yREFw0ZZ…
#Halloween horror in UK #deepsea. Squat lobster rips the head off its live krill prey before eating it youtu.be/gJuE0zWk9BA
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Happy #seaslugday! #nudibranch from 928 m depth in the Norwegian Sea photographed by @AndyRGates @SerpentProject archive.serpentproject.com/1…
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Nice echinothuriid sea urchin on the seabed in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania youtu.be/obUFdXtjXj4
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...and we often see similar from SERPENT (Indian Ocean in this case).
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Our paper about a coral-fish association is published today: link.springer.com/article/10…. Here's one of the videos: youtu.be/YlJm3uxkCYI
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Enypniastes, a SERPENT favourite. Photos often sent in by baffled ROV pilots who've found "a headless-chicken-fish" youtu.be/F6TP0BQGufs
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Replying to @echinoblog
Great post. Here is a @SerpentProject picture of Tremaster mirabilis from 600 m deep in the Faroe-Shetland Channel (off Scotland)
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