Glimpses from life 300 metres below the

Getting a bright light in the face and being filmed doesn't happen every day to the creatures at the bottom of the Barents Sea. Here are some highlights from the mapping survey conducted last month by scientists in the MAREANO programme.

A little Atlantic catfish at 270 metres depth.

Brittlestar (Ophiuroidae).

Cyclostome bryozoan (Sertella beaniana).

The actinarian Bolocera tuediae with a shrimp.

An unidentified scaleworm, possibly Aphrodite aculeata.

The sponge Polymastia sp.

A Norway pout (Trisopterus esmarkii) at 250 metres depth.

The asteroid Henricia sp.

Cyclostome bryozoan.

The hydrozoan Tubularia indivisa with an amphipod, some stalked cirripeds and other attached invertebrates.

Shrimp (Pandalus sp.).