The team from NGO Biosfera Cabo Verde deployed Baited Remote Underwater Video Systems (BRUVS) around the sampling area A nurse shark came to say hello! 👋

DeepSeaCRU out in Cape Verde supporting capacity building for deep water science as part of Challenger 150

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇪🇸 After fieldwork yesterday we were invited to watch the England vs Spain euros match And then eased the football defeat with speciality Cape Verdean cake called cuscus (made out of cornflour, cornmeal and cinnamon 🤌)

We’re here in Cabo Verde with the Biodiversity Challenge Funds-funded BAIT project to share knowledge, skills & equipment for monitoring mesophotic ecosystems 🇨🇻🪸

🎉 We just reached 50 dives! We are currently on expedition with NGO Biosfera Cabo Verde in Cape Verde deploying cameras down to the deep sea in areas which have never been seen before We have seen black corals, butterflyfish, trumpetfish and sea bream 🥹 And even a manta ray!

Lights 💡 Camera 🎥 Action 🎬 The deep sea camera is being prepared for 100+ metre dives today in Cape Verde As well as collecting never seen before videos of deep sea in the area, this project is training and providing equipment to local scientists

👋 Meet our underwater camera! This camera has been deployed to depths of over 100 meters in the ocean of Cape Verde We deploy it off the side of the boat, and it provides a live feed so we can see what's on the sea floor 🔦 On the last dive, we saw a moray eel!

🎬That’s a wrap 81 camera dives From 10 - >150 m depth 1 manta ray 2 moray eels Countless black corals! 🔥What a team! The BAIT_CV project is lead by Teresa Amaro with collaborators from NGO Biosfera Cabo Verde, CESAM - Centre of Environmental and Marine Studies, Uni-CV, Universidade Aveiro & University of Plymouth Funded by Biodiversity Challenge Funds

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New #openaccess paper! Our deep sea paper has been published in Marine Pollution Bulletin. 🪸 First environmental record of microparticle adsorption/ingestion by cold-water corals. 🌊Lower microparticle concentrations at greater depths. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.marp…

📢Delighted to share latest research investigating the combined effect of #microplastics & #seawaterflooding (predicted with climate change) on coastal plant health A massive shout out to Harmony (co-author) who took this on during her MSc degree 🥳 University of Plymouth @plymbiolmarsci

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Exciting #WildlifeSighting alert! A Basking Shark and a Blue Fin Tuna in The Sea of the Hebrides. Many thanks to @baskingsharksco for sharing this amazing footage! Here are a few interesting facts about these impressive animals 👇 1/3

Our paper on the impact that #plastic #microfibres have on formation, sinking & #carbon content of #MarineSnow is finally out in ASLO shorturl.at/3tv8y Work from my U.G with Colin Munn MarineSciencePlymUni and collab. at MARUM AWI Medien, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology & Bremen Uni 🌊🥳👩‍🎓

NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨🙌: "Multigenerational #dispersal and dynamic patch occupancy reveals spatial and temporal stability of seascapes" 🦪🌍🌊 Open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.scit… 🧵👇:

Dropped off the planet for a few weeks and fell in love with Sri Lanka 🇱🇰