Under The Celebes Sea

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Lawrence Madin, head scientist of a deep-sea expedition, shows a jelly fish during a press conference in Manila on Oct. 16, 2007. It was found and photographed during an underwater expedition in the Celebes Sea off the Philippines. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and National Geographic Society-led survey trawled up to three miles below the surface in an area that has been isolated over time by rising sea levels.

A 1 centimeter-long juvenile boxfish collected by a diver in the surface waters off Celebes Sea in southern Philippines. A joint team of Filipino and American scientists that explored the Celebes Sea in southern Philippines early this month announced the marine-life discoveries Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007, following their return from their voyage.

A photo released by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the National Geographic Society-led Inner Space Speciation Project shows a 0.5 cm-long juvenile squid collected with a Bongo net somewhere from the top 100 meters off the Celebes Sea in southern Philippines as shown at a briefing Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007.

A jellyfish collected by divers in the surface waters of the Celebes Sea in southern Philippines is shown to reporters Oct. 16, 2007. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and National Geographic Society-led survey took place at the center of the so-called Coral Triangle, bodies of water bounded by the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia that contain the world's richest biodiversity in shallow water marine species.

A sample of zooplankton collected with a Tucker Trawl with a 10mm opening wherein one can find jellyfish, a lanternfish, a snipe eel, two orange shrimp, a pyrosome (which is bioluminescent) as shown at a briefing Tuesday Oct. 16, 2007, aboard the Philippine research vessel BRP Prisbitero off Manila Bay in Manila, Philippines.

A deep-sea jellyfish collected with a remotely operated vehicle from a depth of at least 1,500 meters was found in the waters known as the Coral Triangle. A joint team of Filipino and American scientists that explored the Celebes Sea in southern Philippines early this month, announced the marine-life discoveries following their return from their voyage on Oct. 16, 2007.

Lawrence Madin shows a deep-sea jelly fish found and photographed by U.S.-Philippines underwater expedition in the Celebes Sea during a press conference in Manila, Oct. 16, 2007. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and National Geographic Society-led survey trawled up to three miles below the surface in an area that has been isolated over geological time by rising sea levels.