I thought i would put up some pics of some sea critters i took photo's of while i was in Antarctica working. They are from Crary lad at Mcmurdo Station.

The fish is a mawsoni cod, they are pretty amazing i suggest reading about them. And the others are sea spiders and bugs of some sort, i'm not sure, and a mollusc

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pics of some sea critters i took photo's of while i was in Antarctica working.

Dude.... cool!

Is it just me or is the word 'mollusc' wonderfully and inexplicably entertaining?

not just you stella

very cool pics

any ideas on names 4 them?

When you say 'working' do you mean in the kitchen?

the conch, please the kitchen!!!!!!!!! I'm a driller and went down there for 2 months with andrill. We did core drilling into the seabed to 1000 metres for the scientists to study global warming and other things.

We got to go to crary lab whenever we had time off so i would go straight to the sea life of course!

I'm not sure what the names for the creepy crawlers are, but i know the fish is a mawsoni cod.

cool pics

how big was that sea spider?

From memory, slightly smaller than a dinner plate. They do grow bigger than that though.

I wouldn't want to go swimming with one of those climbing up my leg ...

but then again, when am I gonna go swimming in Antarctica :lol:

lol, would feel a little creepy!! Yeah it's a little cold for i quick dip down there although we had divers come out to survey the ballast bags under the drill rig, full dry suits of course!!!!!!!

Scary enough. These creatures are only the tip of the iceberg (hah) of creepy things to be found in Antarctica. We have a nice collection of very odd and creepy things at work collected from Antarctica =\ I'd def be a lil wary swimming there.

Cajun food, anyone?

Those ingedients are saying Creole to me.

:lol:

Great to have someone who works at the Antarctic on this forum. Creepy critters!

When you say 'working' do you mean in the kitchen?

:lol: