This Video gallery is a compilation of videos highlighting Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Click on any video image to play Apple QuickTime video. Click here to download a free Apple QuickTime player from Apple.com.

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Where is Cordell Bank? Take a geographic, bathymetric tour of Cordell Bank. Where is it? This animation was created using high resolution bathmetry data of Cordell Bank by the following: Ocean visualizations - CSUMB (EcoViz - F. Watson, S. Cornish, T. Anderson, W. Newman, T. Thein, J. Maas-Baldwin, A. Guzman); Bathymetry/topography - CSUMB (Sea Floor Mapping Lab - R. Kvitek, P. Iampietro) and USGS. Funding for EcoViz provided by NASA Office of Earth Science "Research Education Applications Solutions Network (REASoN)" (NCC13-03009)

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Giant Pacific Octopus are seen regular at Cordell Bank. With an abundance of food at their tentacle tips, and lots of rocky hiding spots, Cordell Bank is a good home for this large invertebrate. Video footage credit: Kip F. Evans/Cordell Bank NMS

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This movie displays how scientists dive in a submersible to discover the different habitats and depths in Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. This video is on exhibit at Point Reyes National Seashore Bear Valley Visitor Center in the Coast and Ocean section. Credit: Kip F. Evans Photography/CBNMS

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Learn about the similarity and differences between Hawaiian Island Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Go to www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions to find lesson plans to accompany this video. This video was created for National Geographic and NOAA by Kip F. Evans

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This movie shows Black-footed Albatross soaring over the waters of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. These birds make incredible round trip foraging trips from the Northwest Hawaiian Islands during breeding season to find food for their chick.

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This video was taken through the porthole of the Delta Submersible on Cordell Bank. It shows large numbers of juvenile rockfish during very good year schooling around Cordell Bank. Juvenile rockfish numbers vary year to year based on breeding success of adult rockfish, upwelling conditions, etc.

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This movie shows Chrysora jellies and Egg Yolk jellies using the pelagic realm. Jellies are food for ocean sunfish (Mola mola) and rarely seen leatherback sea turtles. Video footage provided by Scot Anderson.

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This movie shows krill as soon through a microscope and through the porthole of the Delta submersible. Krill are a keystone species for many migratory and local species of birds, mammals, and fishes in Cordell Bank waters.

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This movies shows a few clips taken from research trips out at Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. It shows the NOAA Ship MCARTHUR, the launching of a remotely operated vehicle, the launch and recovery of a CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth sensors), the launch of a manta net that is used to sample the surface of the ocean.

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This movie shows a torpedo ray in close proximity to a crab. Does it get the crab?

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In the winter of 2005, Humboldt squid were seen in high abundance near the surface. Video Footage Credit: Scot Anderson

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