A stowaway! This small vent crab was discovered once Alvin was back on the deck. "We have small organisms come up by mistake all the time," said Pilot Bruce Strickrott. "The worst was this fish that got caught inside, but we didn't find it for awhile. You can imagine the smell!"

Nothing makes a scientist happier than when a deployed instrument is successfully recovered. Check out how Alvin's manipulator recovered one of Dr. Astrid Schnetzer's prototraps. In total, ten of these devices were deployed, and all were successfully recovered.