In this episode of Deep Sea BC, Captain Quinn explores the deep depths of the Strait of Georgia in the Salish Sea in search of mysterious deep water crustaceans. Can he find and document the Brown Box crab, Pacific Spot Prawn and or the Pandalus Borealis Shrimp in their natural deep water habitats? What else might he discover as he combs the ocean floor with his submersible remote operated vehicle? The deep sea is home to many wild, bizarre and mysterious creatures. Can he find some of them? Maybe he will find a rare and unique animal, a sea monster or perhaps a mermaid? In addition to holding many mysteries the sea is also a place of bounty with food available almost everywhere you look.
When they hatch, all crustaceans float around in the ocean currents as microscopic Zooplankton, filling the waters with life. After a while, they finally settle on the ocean floor and begin to grow. Shore crabs were probably one of the first marine animals I came to discover, they are under almost every rock in the intertidal zone up and down the BC coast. They are common and widely recognized like other common shoreline species such as the starfish. They spend part of their day on land as the time goes out and part of their day underwater as the tide comes in. There are many different species of crabs in the Salish sea. Some like the shore crab live part of their lives on land and others like the red rock crab and Dungeness crab spend their time scavenging in subtidal areas. Crabs, like shrimp, are crustaceans. Instead of bones they have a hard exoskeleton which must be moulted inorder for the animal to grow. Some crustaceans like shore crabs, dungeness and red rock crab commonly encountered by humans and live in places that are easily accessible by humans with masks and snorkels but what about the crustaceans that live deeper? Much deeper. Beyond the natural reach of humans such as spot prawns, pandalus borealis shrimp and the rarely observed robust brown box crab. As is the case with most marine life, the deeper they live the less we encounter and interact with them, the less we seem to know about them.
And so we are grabbing our traps, our masks and snorkels and our remote operated vehicle and we are setting out to explore the marine environments that the crustaceans of the Salish Sea call home.
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