# Underwater mcmurdo sound

- By: NSF/USAP photo by Steve Clabuesch; uploaded by en:User:Fishdecoy
- Date: 2005-11-12
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: English-language Wikipedia (original image log here) Source versions available here and (direct URL to large image) here.
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Underwater_mcmurdo_sound.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/7/7c/Underwater_mcmurdo_sound.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Image of an ice wall and the ocean floor adjacent to remote-controlled photographic equipment at Explorer's Cove, New Harbor, McMurdo Sound. An underwater camera is connected by cable to onshore facilities, which upload images to the Internet via radio signals.

main visible species :

the antarctic scallop (Adamussium colbecki)

the common antarctic sea urchin (Sterechinus neumayeri)

a stalk-like bush sponge (Homaxinella balfourensis)

a brittlestar (Ophionotus victoriae)

seaspiders (Colossendeis sp.)