Monterey Bay Aquarium biologists worked alongside MBARI’s skilled submersible pilots to gently collect animals for the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s groundbreaking deep-sea exhibition, Into the Deep/En lo Profundo. (Image credit: George Matsumoto, MBARI) MBARI engineers developed an “elevator” to facilitate collections of larger animals. After the R/V David Packard crew deploys the elevator, MBARI’s submersible pilots can gently transfer animals into large drawers. (Image credit: George Matsumoto, MBARI) Located approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) offshore of Davenport, California, Guide Seamount is an underwater mountain made up of four parallel volcanic ridges separated by sediment-filled troughs. Previous MBARI surveys in 2009 and 2018 documented the community of marine life that lives on the seamount and in the waters above its summit, including large bamboo corals (family Keratoisididae), sponges, and fish.…