Having an extra day for exploration at sea is a rare event; however, the weather was perfect, the equipment worked flawlessly, and a team from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) finished their research at a lost shipping container a day earlier than expected.
The sea creatures, whose mantles are about the size of a grapefruit and have a purple hue to them, are populating in the thousands at the base of Davidson.
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