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Every year as the sun disappears for the winter, the surface waters around Antarctica freeze into a slab of ice 10-feet thick, which effectively doubles the size of the continent.
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Antarctic Pack Ice

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The Ross Sea is a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean off the coast of Antarctica.
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Map of the Ross Sea

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Looking through this iceberg's reflection in the Antarctic water, you can see the iceberg below the surface—some 90% of its total volume.
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Blue-Green Antarctic Glacier

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A many-armed, orange starfish.
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A Filter-Feeding Starfish

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A fox explores a tide pool.
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Fox at the Tide Pools

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Red hot magma and ash erupt from an underwater volcano.
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An Underwater Volcanic Eruption

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Superheated magma slowly leaks from a crack in the seafloor.
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Superheated Magma Underwater

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Bottlenose dolphin pod
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Bottlenose Dolphin Pod

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A bloom of moon jellies.
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A Bloom of Moon Jellies

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A blenny fish against both a white and black backdrop, where you can see its beautiful color pattern.
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A New Fish DROP-ping In

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A walrus sits on a floating piece of ice.
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Walrus on Ice

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The frogfish is an expert hunter and can eat fish in 6 milliseconds.
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The Frogfish

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