Video footage of the benthos and accompanying oceanographic CTD data recorded along 9 vertical and 1 horizontal ROV transects in the Comau fjord (Patagonia, Chile)

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Underwater video recordings of the benthos and accompanying oceanographic CTD data of the environment recorded during 10 wall transects down to maximum depth of 355 m in the Comau Fjord of Patagoina, Chile. A custom-built ROV (Octiluz), based on Ocean Module V8Sii ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) technology, was launched from a small boat an manually flown along 75-400 m vertical transects at an average velocity of 0.1 m/s. The device was equipped with three cameras with different perspectives: Two HD camera (Kongsberg oe14-502, 720p50) pointed forward recording stereograpic videos and a full HD network camera (OceanTools C3-30 1080p25) took isometric recordings foreward-down. Environmental data was recorded with a CTD (RBR Maestro), which included chlorophyll a, turbidity, oxygen, pH and PAR sensors, in addition to standard conductivity, temperature and pressure instruments. The global orientation with respect to magnetic north was determined with an internal IMU device. The video footage gives a comprehensive impression of the unique local cold-water ecology and particularly highlights the different composition of the prevailing communities at different depths and on changing substrates. Most of the 10 stations are repeated transects that were already carried out on in 2012 in order to analyse long-term developments.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.982998
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.982998
Provenance
Creator Owsianowski, Nils ORCID logo; Richter, Claudio ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess false
Representation
Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 20 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-72.601W, -42.457S, -72.415E, -42.161N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2024-12-01T12:34:49Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-12-11T14:57:20Z