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tuexplorer1.bsky.social
This Lampocteis looks neat using the DeepPIV (particle image velocimetry). I like how it illuminates all those lines. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 454 #designingthefuture2 #MarineLife
February 23, 2026 at 9:05 PM
kakanikatija.bsky.social
Who needs fireworks when you have siphonophores and lasers?!! 🌊🦑🧪 #DeepPIV #siphonophireworks #DesigningTheFuture3 @schmidtocean.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social
April 22, 2026 at 7:06 PM
kakanikatija.bsky.social
Another BEAUTIFUL siphonophore, that the team here thinks is undescribed. 🦑🧪 #Designingthefuture3
Undescribed siphonophore with a green nectosome and the DeepPIV with laser on to the left. The view of the undescribed siphonophore in the DeepPIV camera.
April 18, 2026 at 10:43 PM
loresjoberg.bsky.social
Whoever named their deep sea laser scanning system “DeepPIV” knew exactly what they were doing.
A web page on mbari.org about DeepPIV. It reads “Deep Particle Image Velocimetry (DeepPIV): The DeepPIV (particle image velocimetry) instrument consists of a laser and optics that illuminates a sheet of fluid. Using the MiniROV's high-definition science camera to capture the motion of suspended particles in the laser sheet, the motion of fluid can be quantified. In addition, gelatinous structures (such as larvacean mucus houses) can be revealed as shown in the above frame trom video footage.”
July 21, 2026 at 11:34 PM
tuexplorer1.bsky.social
Using DeepPIV on a salp from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 902 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife
April 17, 2026 at 8:29 PM
schmidtocean.bsky.social
Teuthowenia Tuesday! ROV pilots filmed this glass squid during the #DesigningTheFuture3 expedition at 739 m. Read about the animal and the DeepPIV imaging system from @kakanikatija.bsky.social & @mbarinews.bsky.social via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/ekV8I...
Teuthowenia Tuesday #designingthefuture3 #midwater #squid
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Institute
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June 2, 2026 at 9:56 PM
tuexplorer1.bsky.social
Maybe Thalassocalyce. They're currently running this cteno through the DiscoPIV (they call it DeepPIV). @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 903 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife
April 18, 2026 at 5:56 PM
schmidtocean.bsky.social
The space-age instrument creating this light show is DeepPIV, for Deep particle image velocimetry; it was developed by @kakanikatija.bsky.social & the Bioinspiration Lab team at @mbarinews.bsky.social. It was mounted on ROV SuBastian during #DesigningTheFuture3.
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A new way of seeing the deep! #designingthefuture3 #midwater #siphonophore
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Institute
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May 22, 2026 at 7:43 PM
kakanikatija.bsky.social
Relive the moment in the control room when we first scanned this undescribed Apolemia siphonophore. 🤩 Just wow!! 🌊🦑🧪 #DesigningtheFuture3 #DeepPIV @schmidtocean.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social (clip from @tuexplorer1.bsky.social)
April 22, 2026 at 7:11 PM
sh.itch.io
Just learned about a deep sea scan device that allows us to see the marvels of nature and is called….

Couldn’t help but think of @dansavage.bsky.social 😅

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Screenshot labeled “DeepPIV”
July 16, 2026 at 10:58 PM
fathomverse.bsky.social
This video was recorded aboard the @mbarinews.bsky.social R/V Rachel Carson. Joost Daniels uses DeepPIV, an innovative imaging technology that utilizes lasers, to scan a larvacean so we can study their intricate structures.
Everyone, hail the Pumpkin King! 🎃#larvacean #deeppiv #mbari #fathomverse
YouTube video by FathomVerse
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October 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
schmidtocean.bsky.social
The space-age instrument on the left side of the video frame is DeepPIV, for Deep particle image velocimetry; it was developed by @kakanikatija.bsky.social & team in the Bioinspiration Lab at @mbarinews.bsky.social — read more in the YouTube caption!

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A space-age laser for science! #designingthefuture3 #midwater
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Institute
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April 24, 2026 at 6:10 PM
kakanikatija.bsky.social
Photos from our #DesigningTheFuture3 @schmidtocean.bsky.social Expedition made the cut!! Feast your eyes on some glorious undescribed siphonophores, lasers #DeepPIV, and other gelata. 🧪🦑🌊
nature.com Nature @nature.com · Jul 6
Deep-sea oddities and boatloads of other new species - check out June's sharpest science shots, selected by Nature's photo team: go.nature.com/3Tlqy2X
July 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
kakanikatija.bsky.social
In case you’re wondering, this video highlight came from our #DesigningTheFuture @schmidtocean.bsky.social Expedition with @burnsajohn.bsky.social and others. To the left is #DeepPIV in case you’re wondering. We’re doing a part III in April so stay tuned! 🦑🌊
tuexplorer1.bsky.social Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · Feb 23
Wait for it... If I could do that I would be more insufferable than I am now. Chiroteuthis from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 454 #designingthefuture2 #MarineLife
February 23, 2026 at 10:18 PM
kakanikatija.bsky.social
Happy #WorldOceanDay!! Just a reminder that our planet is filled with awe-inspiring life like #snotpalace- building giant #larvaceans. Take care of each other. 🦑🧪🌊🌎 @mbarinews.bsky.social
A giant larvacean inside of its mucus house in the background. In the foreground is an imaging instrument called DeepPIV, which is the source of the red laser sheet which reveals the mucus structure.
June 8, 2024 at 8:55 PM
brackenshape.bsky.social
MBARI baby i'm so sorry, calling your genuinely cool & important scientific instrument "DeepPIV" does NOT call to mind "deep particle image velocimetry," but rather, something else,
May 26, 2026 at 6:40 PM
tuexplorer1.bsky.social
Disco jelly (DeepPIV being used)
April 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
kakanikatija.bsky.social
Our setup in the ROV SuBastian Control Room with DeepPIV computer on the left and EyeRIS on the right. #Designingthefuture3
Mr working on the DeepPIV laptop with EyeRIS computer on the right. A wall of monitors to operate the vehicle is shown behind me. Photo credit: Joost Daniels
April 18, 2026 at 3:30 AM
ctenophoresrock.bsky.social
By using cutting-edge imaging technologies (such as #EyeRIS & #DeepPIV) and rapid genome sequencing, the deep-sea team of #DesigningTheFuture3 were able to confirm 31 new species, including 7 ctenophores! Credit EyeRIS image to @kakanikatija.bsky.social & @mbarinews.bsky.social 🦑 #CtenophoreFunFacts
"This is a total focus image of a lobate ctenophore captured in midwater using an ROV plenoptic imaging payload called EyeRIS (Remote Imaging System). EyeRIS enables volumetric capture of the field, and provides straightforward measurement of deforming 3D structures in situ." Credit text description to Valentin Foulon/X. Credit image to Kakani Katija and the Bioinspiration Lab at MBARI.
June 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM
jeffday.bsky.social
but yeah magnapinna's weird like that, other squid in its containing family have similarly long arms or tentacles and use what's called the tuning fork position instead:
chiroteuthis calyx as observed by @mbarinews and schmidt ocean institute during the cruise Designing The Future 2 during 2021 we see part of a squid peeking down from the top frame - the forwardmost portion of its head and its eyes, then its arms held together at about a 45 degree angle from the head. extending far beyond its arms are two very long tentacles in an approximate inverted 'V' - the fork portion of the tuning fork. some scientific instrumentation (part of the DeepPIV system) is visible left of frame
May 23, 2024 at 8:01 PM
ctenophoresrock.bsky.social
Video description: A close encounter between a squid and a venus girdle comb jelly, captured during #DesigningTheFuture2 ROV Dive 454. First view is from ROV’s main science camera; Second view from @mbarinews.bsky.social's #DeepPIV. Captured in real-time, followed by a slo-mo replay. #MarineLife
May 5, 2026 at 12:12 PM
noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
Hey lovely people! Had so much fun tagging along on the livestream for Designing The Future 3 and so looking forward to getting to work on some of the DeepPIV scans! It was special to get to see them while they were being collected this time.
May 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
mopolis.bsky.social
31 New Species Discovered in Two Weeks of Deep-Sea Exploration and scanned using the Deep Particle Image Velocimetry (DeepPIV) technique.

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PRESS RELEASE
31 New Species Discovered in Two Weeks of Deep Sea Exploration
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June 4, 2026 at 9:08 AM