Whale Fall

from The New Yorker A Whale’s Afterlife By Jeffrey Marlow Photomontage of the whale fall in Monterey Canyon obtained during a February 2002 dive using the ROV Tiburon. The red “fuzz” is thousands of deep-sea worms growing on the whale bones. On the day before Thanksgiving, 2011, Greg Rouse, a trim marine biologist in his fifties, […]