Happy #WorldOceanDay 🌊💙🐟

This is a rare glimpse of a juvenile ribbonfish (Trachipterus altivelis)

Explore Sur Ridge with us 🪸

Embrace blob life ✨

Our #MBARIFromTheVault series comes to a close with the giant phantom jelly 🪼

Meet the Humboldt squid! #MBARIFromTheVault

Meet the harp sponge 🎶 #MBARIFromTheVault

Say hello to our friend Eryoneicus, a deep-sea lobster larva 🦞 #MBARIFromTheVault

Meet Peniagone papillata, a spectacular sea cucumber. #MBARIFromTheVault

Meet the Manefish, Caristius macropus. #MBARIFromTheVault

This week, we’re sharing content curated by the team of experts responsible for our video archive

We're celebrating MBARI's 38th birthday today! #DeepSea #Ocean

The owl fish, named for the size of its eyes relative to its head, lives in the North Pacific ocean

How many fish did you see? #DeepSea #OceanLife

We gave the crew of our new research vessel film cameras to document their journey home #lifeatsea

At MBARI, our “office” is Monterey Bay and its deep underwater canyon

Update! The R/V David Packard recently transited the Panama Canal and is now in the Pacific Ocean

The R/V David Packard is waiting to transit at the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal.

MBARI’s new flagship research vessel, the R/V David Packard, is halfway home🚢⁠

This worm is always on the go

In 2014, MBARI recorded what we believe was the first video of the black seadevil alive and at depth

This autonomous underwater robot records monthly video surveys of midwater animals in Monterey Bay

Gulper eels reach a maximum length of 1 meter (3.2 ft) 🌀#deepsea #gulpereel #ocean

New MBARI species just entered the chat ✨ #deepsea #mysterymollusc #nudibranch #oceanlife

Time for another #WormCrushWednesday 😍⁠

Live, laugh, love, snailfish 🌊 #deepsea #deepseafish #underwater #ocean #oceanlife #cuteanimals

Dancing with the worms: Our favorite Alciopid worm dance moves. ⁠#deepsea #wormszone #wiggle #ocean

Mystical, magical, mystery squid:⁠ Long-armed jewel squid (Stigmatoteuthos dofleini) 🤩 #deepsea

When your outfit matches your lunch 🎃🍬 #halloween #deepsea #jellyfish #deepseahalloween

In the Friday flow #literally 🌊⁠ #deepsea #ocean #oceantech #deepseacoral #coral #underwater #flow

Serving Demogorgon vibes for the start of spooky season 🎃⁠⁠ #deepsea #ocean #demogorgan #jellyfish

Meet Stellamedusa ventana, aka Bumpy! ⪮ #montereybay #jelly #jellyfish #deepsea #ocean #exploration

Meet Tiburonia granrojo, the jelly known as Big Red ❤️ #deepsea #jellyfish #montereybay #bigred

Meet our fleet 🌊⁠⁠🤖 #robotics #deepsea #oceantech #hightech #oceanlife #autonomousrobot #rov

MBARI's ROV Ventana has logged more science dives than any remotely operated vehicle in the world.

We're listening in on Earth’s largest animal⁠ 🐋#bluewhales #oceanlife #whalesounds #whale

Pass the phone at sea with @MontereyBayAquarium

The scariest thing in the deep sea is this: plastic pollution. #plasticpollution #deepsea #pollution

Cruising with a sleeper shark. 🦈💤 #sharkweek deepseashark #deepsea #shark #deepocean #fypage #fyp

Unwind with the breathtaking beauty of deep-sea hydrothermal vents 🔥⁠ #mbari #deepsea #fypage #fyp

Meet the M1 buoy ⚓️ #ocean #oceantech #technology #oceanhealth #oceanography #montereybay #monterey

Watch this deep-sea shrimp zoom, zoom, zoom🏎 #deepsea #oceanlife #ocean #marinebiology #fypage

Hagfish are relatively common in the deep-sea. 🌊 #hagfish #feedingfrenzy #deepsea #fypage

Watch to see a sea cucumber swim. 👀⁠⁠ #seacucumber #monterey #ocean #deepsea #sealife fyp #fypage

In our decades of ocean exploration, we’ve only come across Magnapinna one time!⁠ 🦑 #cephalopodweek

A deep-sea carrying giants eggs #CephalopodWeek #squid ⁠#deepsea #fyp #fypage #momlife

Such a distinguished gentleman! 🦑 #CephlalopodWeek #deepsea #squid

Take a moment to gaze into the mesmerizing eyes of the deep-sea rattail fish. 👀⁠