Video still of Demosponge and bottle brush primnoid corals seen during a submersible dive at 65 latitude South in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

28th February at 65°03.624'S 055°54.300'W

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise has returned to the Antarctic Peninsula with scientists Susanne Lockhart and Rachel Downey for a series of dives with a submersible to explore the sea floor.

Greenpeace is conducting scientific research and documenting the Antarctic’s unique wildlife, to strengthen the proposal to create the largest protected area on the planet, an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary.