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Scientific submersible makes deep-sea discoveries CSIRO Media Release – 18 January 2009 Ref 09/07

The remotely operated submersible Jason being recovered on board the RV Thompson. The red cable is the photo-electronic tether to the ship, which controls operations and sends images and data back to the ship.	A dead-reef at 1575 metres, dated to approximately 10,000-20,000 years during the last glacial period, located in the Huon Marine Reserve. The low, black mounds are dead masses of the reef-forming coral Solenosmilia. The yellow basket-like animals on the reef are filter-feeding seastars called brisingoids.
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A bright red, undescribed species of shell-less coral, called an anthomastid or gorgons-head coral, at 1700 metres deep at the Cascade Plateau, off south-east Tasmania.	One of Australia's deepest residents – a bizarre carnivorous sea squirt, or ascidian, standing half a meter tall on the seafloor on the Tasman Fracture Zone at a depth of 4006 metres. The animal feeds opportunistically, triggered when a fish or any other swimming organism touches it. The animal is then trapped by the funnel-like front section, which collapses around the prey item.
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The half-metre-wide mouth of a 2-metre high "waffle-cone" sponge, found at a depth of 2197 metres in the Tasman Fracture Zone.	Deployment of the remotely operated submersible Jason from the RV Thomas G. Thompson
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The half-metre-wide mouth of a 2-metre high "waffle-cone" sponge, found at a depth of 2197 metres in the Tasman Fracture Zone. The Tasman Fracture Zone is approximately 350 kilometres south-west of Hobart.	Deepwater shrimp, small gorgonian fan (also known as sea whip or sea fan), small sea star in approximately 2400 metres of water
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Live, highly diverse, healthy shallow reef at a depth of approximately 1200m, off the coast of St Helens in the north-east of Tasmania	The control room on the RV Thomas G. Thompson, controlling the operations of Jason and receiving real-time footage of images and data
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Radio grab 1 – Dr Ron Thresher from CSIRO's Climate Adaptation and Wealth from Oceans Flagships	Radio grab 2 – Dr Ron Thresher from CSIRO's Climate Adaptation and Wealth from Oceans Flagships

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