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On Dec. 6, a team from NOAA’s Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA’s Pacific Islands Regional Office, and Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources successfully freed a young humpback whale that had become dangerously entangled in rope. This video features amazing underwater shots of the yearling swimming with his mother and rescuers working to free the whale.

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Scientists completed a 64-day cruise to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, onboard the University of Hawaii’s Research Vessel, Ka’imikai-o-Kanaloa, and the Pisces IV and V Submersibles. They studied the regions virtually unexplored deep-sea corals, submarine canyons, and seamounts. One objective was to learn how endangered Hawaiian monk seals use shallow and deep-water habitats for hunting and protection. When scientists dove to a deep-sea coral bed, they were shocked to see an endangered Hawaiian monk seal at an amazing depth of 543 meters (1781 feet).

It’s the first time a monk seal was documented as associated with deep-sea precious corals, and the first time a monk seal was observed at such a depth, where he showed no sign of stress. Please visit source: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03nwhi/media/monkseal_video.html

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Scientists were shocked to see a close-up view of an unidentified squid swim by the submersible’s porthole.

Scientists completed a 64-day cruise to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, onboard the University of Hawaii’s Research Vessel, Ka’imikai-o-Kanaloa, and the Pisces IV and V Submersibles. They studied the regions virtually unexplored deep-sea corals, submarine canyons, and seamounts.

Please visit source: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03nwhi/media/squid_video.html

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