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Happy #DeepDay! 🌊🦑🪼
On this annual day of action to celebrate the deep sea, dive in and discover just a handful of the species that make the deepest zones of our ocean truly spectacular … and above all, worth protecting.
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As the Mediterranean warms, marine species are moving into deeper, cooler waters. These deep-sea habitats are critical climate refugia, but bottom trawling can destroy them.
Read our blog on why extending the deep-sea trawl ban makes sense.
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Happy #DeepDay 🌊
Dr. Susanne Lockhart has spent three decades exploring Southern Ocean science, including ~40 hours descending to the Antarctic seafloor in submersibles. Her work has helped identify and protect Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs), contributing to 77% of those formally registered under CCAMLR.
VMEs are slow-growing deep-sea communities built by corals, sponges, bryozoans, and other long-lived species that can persist for centuries. They are extremely sensitive to disturbance, especially bottom fishing.
In many cases, these ecosystems have only been recognized after fragile, long-lived species appear as bycatch in fishing gear. Dr. Lockhart is helping shift this approach. Through partnerships with tourism submersible operators, she supports non-invasive documentation that allows these habitats to be identified and understood before they are impacted.
On dive after dive, she witnesses soft corals swaying like underwater forests, giant sponges sheltering fish and eggs, and surreal gardens of color thriving in near-freezing darkness.
The Southern Ocean’s deep sea rivals tropical reefs in biodiversity, yet it lies hundreds of meters below the surface, largely unseen. These ecosystems are also sentinels of change, increasingly affected by warming, acidification, ice scouring, and industrial fishing pressure.
Dr. Lockhart’s work helps bring this hidden world into view, and into protection. 🌊
The deep sea is one of the most fragile parts of the planet, yet its future is at risk. 🪼
With the threat of #DeepSeaMining 🪸⛏️ & impacts unknown, States must implement a moratorium on this industry that could affect the health of our planet. 🌍
#DeepDay #DefendTheDeep 🦑
🌊 Happy #Deepday! Initiated by the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, this annual day celebrates and raises awareness of the incredible #biodiversity of our #deepseas.
Check out @pensoft's blog to learn more 👇https://t.co/5zMaqggktq
💙 Today is #DeepDay, a day to celebrate the deep ocean and stand up for its protection. As govts consider the future of the deep ocean, now is the time to support the growing calls for a global moratorium on deep sea mining.
Together, we can #DefendTheDeep.
#DSMC #StopDSM
🎉 It's nearly #DeepDay! Join the growing wave of momentum - from Indigenous leaders, youth movements, policymakers, businesses and ocean lovers all around the world - all saying "no" to deep-sea destruction.
Together, we are United to #DefendTheDeep 💙
#DSMC #StopDSM
Happy #DeepDay but let’s be real while corporations eye the ocean floor like it’s a mining jackpot, we’re over here trying to not ruin the last wild frontier on Earth.
At Eden, we don’t dig, drill, or dump. We transform waste on land and oceans into regenerative fuel oil, so the deep sea never has to pay the price.
#EdenEnergy
Happy #DeepDay!
Today is all about celebrating the deep sea —our planet’s largest, least explored habitat—and advancing knowledge to protect it. Because the more we know, the better we can #DefendTheDeep: https://t.co/9HEj25Zhsy
Let's celebrate #DeepDay!
Description of the digenean Acaenodera nautili sp. n. from Conger cinereus, caught 400m deep off New Caledonia [2011]
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Description of the digenean Acaenodera nautili sp. n. from Conger cinereus, caught 400m deep off New Caledonia [2011]
https://t.co/pmN52JrGrz https://t.co/uSqYSkuyBE](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GqXcCR_X0AA_dfx.png)
Let's celebrate #DeepDay!
The description of Raphidascaris (Ichthyascaris) etelidis n. sp. (Nematoda, Anisakidae), from deep-sea lutjanid fishes off New Caledonia
https://t.co/WHqgYMs7BS
Let's celebrate #DeepDay!
Description of the nematode Ichthyofilaroides novaecaledoniensis (Guyanemidae) from the deep-sea fish Hoplichthys citrinus (Hoplichthyidae, Scorpaeniformes), off New Caledonia [2020]
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![Plathelminthe4's tweet photo. Let's celebrate #DeepDay!
Description of the nematode Ichthyofilaroides novaecaledoniensis (Guyanemidae) from the deep-sea fish Hoplichthys citrinus (Hoplichthyidae, Scorpaeniformes), off New Caledonia [2020]
https://t.co/XYlz8EkKan https://t.co/Mhr6xXhjXS](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GqXZlOiXkAA2Mz0.jpg)
Let's celebrate #DeepDay!
Another series of parasitic nematodes from deep sea fishes collected off New Caledonia [2011]
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Let's celebrate #DeepDay!
My first attempt at describing a nematode, Moravecnema segonzaci, from a deep-sea fish. [2022]
https://t.co/y3lvcdpDuM
![Plathelminthe4's tweet photo. Let's celebrate #DeepDay!
My first attempt at describing a nematode, Moravecnema segonzaci, from a deep-sea fish. [2022]
https://t.co/y3lvcdpDuM https://t.co/nwKHGkYWGq](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GqXXd2AWUAALoKF.jpg)
Science is only just beginning to explore the deep sea—but many Indigenous cultures have long held deep-rooted knowledge of these waters.
On #DeepDay, we spotlight the value of scientific and traditional wisdom for ocean protection. #DefendTheDeep
🌊 On #DeepDay, look beneath the surface to Antarctica’s deep sea. Dr. Susanne Lockhart’s sub dives helped protect 77% of CCAMLR’s vulnerable marine ecosystems. 🪸🐙 Learn more about her research in our new blog: https://t.co/Peh9VpCRB1
📸 Cat Gundry-Beck @catgundrybeck
This #DeepDay, let’s celebrate science & Indigenous knowledge—and act on what that tells us.
The deep sea is under threat from destructive #DeepSeaMining. Let knowledge, not exploitation, shape our ocean’s future.
Join the call for a global moratorium: https://t.co/MzyZ3MRj9x
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