Bringing the nice full trawl back onboard. Those are two of the MTs (Marine Techs) and they're harnessed in so they don't fall over. This was near the beginning of the cruise though, so nice and flat and you can see ice in the background. 
A few things we got in that net. These are "Sea Pigs", Protelpidia. They are a type of sea cucumber that live at around 600m depth and feed on the mud. This was a target animal for the other scientists on the cruise. We got an awful lot of sea pigs! The two different types here might be different species, we've taken tissue samples to investigate that, so we'll know before the next cruise. 
A giant scale worm. Eww. 
Beautiful corals! These are pretty neat, they're so fragile that they don't often come up in the nets (they break and fall through). This species lives in all the worlds oceans and even down to 6000m depth, and i've worked with it in the Atlantic and the Pacific, so it was great to get some from down in the Antarctic too! 
Inside a starfish....these are all the little brooded babies, ready to come out and live on their own. 
What the trawl often looked like. It took some work to free it from the ice to use, it was so cold this trip!
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AWSOME!
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