Octopus Ballet

This white octopus was filmed with a highdefinition underwater video camera at 6600 feet depth 200 miles off the coast of Oregon in September 2005 as part of the VISIONS 05 expedition led by Professors John Delaney and Deborah Kelley of the University of Washington. Little is known about the deepsea octopuses that live in proximity to the hydrothermal vent fields associated with the underwater volcanoes of the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Northeast Pacific