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        <img src="/explorations/20cascadia-seeps/logs/sept27/media/snail-seeps-800.jpg" alt="During the 2023 Shakedown + EXPRESS West Coast Exploration, we will use our two-bodied remotely operated vehicle (ROV) system, which includes ROVs Deep Discoverer (pictured here) and Seirios." />
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        <div class="cbp-l-inline-title">Methane Seeps</div>
        <div class="cbp-l-inline-subtitle"><em>Image courtesy of Ocean Exploration Trust - Cruise NA095.</em> <a href="/explorations/20cascadia-seeps/logs/sept27/media/snail-seeps-hires.jpg" download>Download larger version (jpg, 3.7 MB).</a></div>
        <div class="cbp-l-inline-desc"><p>One of the features we expect to explore during the 2023 Shakedown + EXPRESS West Coast Exploration are methane seeps. These seeps provide food from chemical energy and structure for deep-sea animals to live on, increasing the biodiversity at such sites. This image shows a mass of snails (gastropods called Neptunea) and their egg masses (the yellow towers) using clumps of tubeworms as a place to anchor at a seep site within Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, off the Oregon coast.</p></div>
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