I wonder if whales have a similar enthusiasm as these researchers when they discover a sunken ship

it is fun to be a marine biologist today. 1800's marine biologist are like, there's a Kraken.

"Two mysterious orbs in two weeks... just another day on the Nautilus" wow goosebumps. This is like science fiction!

Man I want a job where me and my like minded colleagues essentially just explore the deep with a submarine and talk about how cool everything is. I'm sure there is real science happening but I'd rather assume you guys just poot around the ocean floor saying hi to dumbo octopuses and exploring long dead whale skeletons.

The white golfball/orb at the end is Heteropolypus, formerly Anthomastus, a colonial octocoral or soft coral. The common name is “mushroom coral”. The “pores” are where the polyps reside and they are retracted in this video.

This channel deserves so much more attention!!!

Oh my god ... This is just way way too incredible: A natural whale fall 😲😂 wow, just ... Wow !!! Once again you guys on the Nautilis have rocked my world, this is like the tenth time my mind's been blown since I discovered this channel a month ago. I had never even heard of a whale fall a few weeks ago - but now I'm very well versed in the topic ( for a lay person ) and that's all thanks to this channel; your previous whale fall video prompted a study session on the subject. I reacted in a similar way to other videos of yours and yeah , today I am MUCH more knowledgeable about the ocean and honestly I care so much more, or rather I feel so much more invested in ocean conservation than I did just a few short weeks ago before discovering The Ocean Exploration Trust and this channel. Thank you so much EV Nautilis - you are literally changing my life and the lives of many many others all over the world!! Respect!!

So I want to be a marine biologist.

I loved this video! And the details on the worms..... OMG!!! Truly strange! I love this channel!!!

"100 males in a single female." Massive sausage party.

we are so lucky that we can have free access to such interesting material.

So did you guys eventually confirm whether the golf ball was an anemone or not?

why did I get teary eyed?!! it is a special thing to have seen...

I love how much fun you guys have

5:06 “It’s exactly 10cm in diameter...a little bit larger.”

"take me with you! i can see perfectly well, look i can see that radiolarian over there" "take me with you".

So cool! Can't wait to show students in school!!! Great job, guys and gals of the E/V Nautilus!

I need this channel in my life

Thanks for doing your part!

I love the interaction of these scientists.. especially their professionalism and expertise.. 👍

people: wow i found a chest of gold Marine biologist: wow we found a natural whale fall (I think finding one of those is like treasure for a biologist)

Fantastic find guyz!

I guess what is the most incredible video i saw in youtube

wow, just wow. so cool. thanks guys!

This is amazing. Thank you for sharing this.

Elephant graveyard of the sea...you guys were blessed with a wonder this day. Thanks for sharing this amazing find!

This sometimes feels like Mystery Science Nautilus Theater

I could watch this stuff all day.

I 💘 this channel

That is amazing! I have never seen a natural whale fall before! Very cool!

Wow love the channel ! Keep it up guys !!!!

Great job, to all of you.

This boosts my interest in taking Marine Biology as my course.

gorgeous find!

"There can be something like hundreds of males within a single female...Wow" Those worms sound like they know how to party:)

why didn't you capture the pickleball

These videos are so interesting.

when i die, make me a human fall

Amazing!

RIP whale

Guys, please.... I need a job. This would be the coolest job on the planet. Can I apply? :)

Greetings from Dar es salaam,Tanzania 🇹🇿 Mudi Mabiriani Alikuwa Hapa😎

How often are you finding new life previously unknown?

Amazing.

Beautiful

Very interesting I would like to be a marine biologist that is just incredible thing to stumble upon. But weird mushroom on 5min and 26secs

"It's exactly 10cm in diameter, or a bit bigger."

0:29 "Pew pew"

Makes me wish i had kept going with my dream to do this. Too late now though🤷🏽‍♂️

I know I'm late by 4 years lol but I'm thinking humpback without looking at the comments.

Pretty awesome.

It looks to me as if the whale fell on its back, and rot like this, and then the jaw fell on the side. Do you agree ? The vertical shots were quite clear for that, I think.

at about 3:23, it looks like one of the pelvis bones on a rock.

Sooooo cool.

Minke Whale?

At the various phases of consumption of the carcass I would imagine sea stars and worms To be among the most common, next to crabs/crustaceans?

Wow nature ! Geez louise!

I’m learning.

It looks like a small or juvie humpback, based off the area it would be a good guess!

Whale falls are much better than whale summers.

I'm probably doing this in the science department now

we know more about space than we do about our own ocean

Better than observing an artificial whale fall.

SUPER COOL VIDEO I love how so much life benefits from a single death thanks guys more please

I kinda just want to know what those mushroom like lumps on the mandible are.

At 02:36, since one observer is talking of perhaps needing to examine a vertebrae to establish species, why wasn't one of the loose vertebrae on the right of the whale fall seen at 03:10 picked up - I'm sure collecting that would compensate for one rock less being collected and I presume they were rock collection from what was said at the end of this video excerpt.

"He died and left his body At the bottom of the ocean Now everybody knows that when a body decomposes The basic elements are given back to the ocean..." -"Think About Your Troubles," Harry Nilsson

This would appear to be a Eschrichtius Robustus aka gray whale, among the smaller baleen whales commonly found off the coasts of California. Reaching 39ft in length as adults and considered stable in population currently to date. They tend to have lots of barnacles and lice. It is one of only two living species in its genus which the other being the Akishima whale. It's only natural predators are orcas (killer whales) and humans. They can live between 40-60 years naturally and they feed on invertebrates by sucking up mud from the bottom of the ocean floor and can stay submerged for up to 30 minutes.

Cool!

I would love to do this

That’s whaly nice

3:20 - (On the 4th vertebrae up) Is that something connecting the vertebrae, or is that something growing out from under the vertebrae? I can't tell fully, but it looks like it's passing through the middle, and onto the next across, though that may be just from lack of depth perception.

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

Wow

Have there been comparative studies of people who are buried at sea? That's how I'm going to be buried, and now I'm curious about what will happen.

While this is insanely cool, I couldn’t help but eye the rock formations that looked like gold might be hiding there...

Was that one of the Tympanic bones (ear) laying on the skull ??

Did anyone discover what kind of whale this as? And did any other team come back to this whale fall to do follow up work on it?

What is a while fall? just a bone yard basicly?

the thought that you can die at sea and not have your bones sink to the bottom

Oh loookkkk a starfishhh at the start of the video

Any baleen ? Good for corsets and baskets.

I wonder how long that giant had been lying there on the bottom of the ocean in silent darkness. I would have had to take one of those loose vertebrae back with me.

Not "parasitic". Commensal = living in/on the host but causing no damage/injury.

Did they say how far down it is ?

Rest In Peace

what did the previous mysterios purple orb end up being anyway ? they never said

It would take a marine biologist to come up with the term "whale fall" to explain whale bones on the bottom of the ocean...

I have a question for you guys so, In this game I play; subnautica, there is an area and what it is is there is the water, but then there is another.... liquid and it is heavier then water and it is some sort of acid, have you guys seen this at all, like, in our ocean?

Omg!!!

is remote controlled? radio ? ?

Can u tell how long a whale has been dead when its like this, or would it be more by how much has been eaten? How long has this one been dead?

Who's is the feathered practice ball?

so is that red thing the worms?

are you guys in the drone thing or is it a remote control thing?

Depth?

Can u imagine how many dinasure bones are in the ocean deep?

Interesting

I heard her ask about lasers. What do they do with lasers?

I would love to see some kind of scale to see just how large those bones are. It would really help to understand also the landscape we see. Like, how big are those boulders?