🚨! On our checkout dive, Maite Gato-Fuentes and I found a real, living, 20 cm #Pycnopodia (Sunflower star)! 👀 Coos Bay Jetty, 8 m depth. What a way to start your OIMB+CMLC U.S. National Science Foundation #REU (Research Experience for Undergrads) project eh?!? Thanks to surface team Rhodalyn Tetteh & Annika Sullivan!

It happened again! 2 weeks in a row finding a different Pycnopodia seastar at the Coos Bay jetty! This one was smaller, ~15 cm diameter. Also cool was high densities of juvenile Dungeness crab! Video shows my dive buddy *who found it* Maite Gato-Fuentes for scale! OIMB+CMLC U.S. National Science Foundation #REU

As you can see, the post-dive stoke-factor is high for the dive team: