Delight in 6 serene minutes with graceful deep-sea skates and rays
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- Unwind for six minutes with stunning footage of graceful deep-sea skates and rays filmed by MBARI’s underwater robots. Skates and rays are fishes related to sharks. They have a distinct, flattened body, and they swim and glide using a pair of large, wing-like fins. While we know a lot about the skates and rays that dwell in shallow coastal waters, we know relatively little about those that call the ocean’s inky depths their home.
We often encounter skates resting on the sediment or skimming across the seafloor. Along with their expanded pectoral fins, some skates use their pelvic fins like legs to maneuver while hunting along the bottom or to propel themselves off the seafloor when danger approaches.
Our research is filling in the gaps in scientists’ baseline knowledge of rarely-seen deep-sea skate species. These data are especially important as climate change and overfishing continue to threaten biological communities. The more we learn about deep-sea sharks, skates, and rays, the better we can protect them and their habitats.
Learn more about deep-sea skates: www.mbari.org/animal/deep-sea...
Producer/editor: Larissa Lemon
Production team: Kyra Schlining, Susan von Thun
Music: Lucid Dreaming by Dear Gravity (artlist.io)
Animals in order of appearance:
Note: The red dots in many of these clips are lasers used to help us estimate the size of animals and seafloor features. The horizontal lasers are 29 centimeters apart, and the vertical lasers are 2.5 centimeters apart unless otherwise indicated below.
0:00 Bathyraja abyssicola (Abyssal skate) | 1,388 meters (4,553 feet) | Sur Ridge
0:19 Amblyraja hyperborea (Broad skate) | 1,668 meters (5,472 feet) | Juan de Fuca Ridge
0:25 Bathyraja trachura (Roughtail skate) | 834 meters (2,736 feet) | Sur Ridge
0:31 Bathyraja microtrachys (Fine-spined skate) | 2,955 meters (9,694 feet) | Offshore Oregon
0:37 Bathyraja spinosissima (Spiny skate) | 2,199 meters (7,214 feet) | Offshore Oregon
0:50 Bathyraja trachura | 1,219 meters (3,999 feet) | Offshore Oregon
0:56 Tetronarce californica (Pacific electric ray) | 371 meters (1,217 feet) | Monterey Canyon
1:15 Bathyraja trachura | 1,023 meters (3,356 feet) | Sur Ridge
1:22 Caliraja rhina (Longnose skate) | 448 meters (1,469 feet) | Offshore Central California
1:27 Bathyraja abyssicola | 1,367 meters (4,486 feet) | Greater Monterey Bay Area
1:35 Bathyraja trachura | 835 meters (2,739 feet) | Sur Ridge
1:39 Amblyraja hyperborea | 2,320 meters (7,611 feet) | Gulf of California
1:46 Bathyraja trachura | 602 meters (1,974 feet) | Offshore Central California
1:52 Bathyraja spinosissima | 2,168 meters (7,114 feet) | Trinidad Canyon
1:59 Bathyraja trachura | 1,406 meters (4,613f feet) | Juan de Fuca Ridge
2:10 Bathyraja spinosissima | 1,801 meters (5,909 feet) | Juan de Fuca Ridge
2:29 Caliraja rhina | 374 meters (1,227 feet) | Monterey Canyon | lasers 23 cm apart
2:35 Tetronarce californica | 282 meters (925 feet) | Offshore Central California
2:54 Caliraja rhina | 595 meters (1,953 feet) | Greater Monterey Bay Area
3:01 Bathyraja abyssicola | 1,547 meters (5,076 feet) | Gulf of California
3:07 Bathyraja spinosissima | 1,696 meters (5,566 feet) | Astoria Canyon
3:14 Bathyraja trachura | 981 meters (3,217 feet) | Monterey Canyon
3:19 Bathyraja spinosissima | 1,801 meters (5,909 feet) | Juan de Fuca Ridge
3:38 Amblyraja hyperborea | 1,761 meters (5,778 feet) | Monterey Canyon
3:45 Bathyraja trachura | 852 meters (2,795 feet) | Offshore Central California
3:51 Bathyraja spinosissima | 2,125 meters (6,971 feet) | Vance Seamount | lasers 30 cm apart
4:16 Beringraja rhina | 352 meters (1,155 feet) | Monterey Canyon
4:22 Bathyraja trachura | 1,101 meters (3,611 feet) | Sur Ridge
4:29 Tetronarce californica | 403 meters (1,321 feet) | Monterey Canyon | lasers 23 cm apart
4:34 Bathyraja spinosissima | 2,135 meters (7,006 feet) | Cascadia Basin, offshore Washington
4:58 Amblyraja hyperborea | 1,753 meters (5,750 feet) | Juan de Fuca Ridge
5:06 Bathyraja spinosissima | 2,037 meters (6,682 feet) | Cascadia Basin, offshore Washington
5:19 Bathyraja trachura | 852 meters (2,795 feet) | Pioneer Seamount
5:24 Bathyraja spinosissima | 1,531 meters (5,023 feet) | Juan de Fuca Ridge
5:37 Bathyraja abyssicola | 1,234 meters (4,050 feet) | Sur Ridge
5:43 Bathyraja trachura | 1,253 meters (4,109 feet) | Sur Ridge - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
This is peak content. This is what the internet needs more of.
@williammccann Absolutely! The ocean is full of wonders, and content like this truly brings its beauty to life. More marine life videos like this would definitely make the internet a better place!
Thank you dedicated Scientist and Researchers, from South Africa.
Serenely beautiful. What a wonderful world we share with other creatures.
I've had the privilege of experiencing from ocean to mountain. Every creature is like a sole mate. I often grieve for each loss I encounter. Thank you for the video 😊.
I know that they are both flat but a sole is a different kind of fish.
@ankhi3585 sh_t did it again. Oh well life is a bitch then you get a divorced.
This is perfect. Love the research your team is doing.
This is very calming and the footage makes it feel like you’re there. I really appreciate the species timestamps in the description.
Exactly what this day needs! Thank you for this!
Beautiful and magical
Another one of god's blessings on our world. 🙏
Always appreciated MBARI. ☯️
I have HUGE respect for Manta Rays after Steve Irwin.
It was a sting ray, but yeah, still mad respect for taking out that abusive dickhead.
Steve Irwin wasn’t killed by a manta ray
BEAUTIFULL.... GODBLESS YOU FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO ❤
The wonder I feel about outer space is matched by the deep sea.
Wow just so beautiful ❤❤❤
Hello underwater bats! Creatures that dwell in realms you cannot even conceptualise appreciate you!
Beautiful
This goes hard asf
They deserve the planet more than we do.
That’s was really relaxing.
SEA PANCAKES ✨💖 I remember that one time where I swam with stingrays and huge fish in a big enclosed pool with nets as a border within the ocean! The little ones were shy and the big ones were super playful!
Imagine a catfish star chasing the red dot. 😅😅
Are the two red dots used to determine distance, and thus used to measure the creatures? Hoping to get an answer from MBARI, but if anybody else knows, I'd love to know what the red dots are for.
EDIT: Never mind, it says that is exactly what the lasers are for in the description... I'll see myself out. But leaving the comment because I'm happy/proud I was right.
Nicely done, and Goddess Bless from Zorba!
Love it
its a whole nother world down there.. as alien as the aliens from space..........
the ray(s) depicted, are those electric rays of some type?
🙌🌿
better than uap‘s
Far away from humans is the best place. Very nice
I know... I AGREE. Not that I don't appreciate a few humans, some of the time.... but I must admit that they are not my favorite species.
I have a friend i got Sting by a stingray does it leave Effect to the mind or Bones or something like that so older Guy
Is it just me or does the first stingray look like the AI plane from the movie Stealth?
на 2:38 самый необычный скат.
Would they survive a volcanic winter?
To MBARI, I sincerely hope and wish you are doing everything you can to stop proposed deep sea mining in the Pacific. Talk about unraveling the web of life and fast! I feel so distressed thinking about it. There is an activist, Julia Barnes who is working tirelessly to bring attention, and stop it. Also, in rekated bad news, earlier this year, Norway's gov't approved plans to explore mining their sea floor. Thank you.
this white light is probably scaring away so many new species of animals.
why don't any ROV use red lights? most fish can't see red lights. imagine what new fish and behaviors we'd see if we'd stop scaring them away.