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Census of Marine Life Portal: “Through 2010, scientists worldwide will work to quantify what is known, unknown, and what may never be known about the world’s oceans.”

CephBase offers image searching. Images come with interesting descriptions: “Pacific Giant Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini, with two live crabs that have been caught and moved to the mouth. There, they will be bitten, anesthetized and ultimately disarticulated and eaten. Note that using the suckers, the octopus is able to position the crabs where their claws pose no danger. “

“Most of the vertical transport of organic matter in the oceans is by the sinking of large particles called marine snow.”

Excerpt from “Marine Snow At Mid-Depths and Down”

As you descend, slowly, falling faster past
you this snow,
ghostly, some flakes bio-
luminescent (you plunge,
and this lit snow doesn’t land
at your feet but keeps falling below
you):