{"id":22533,"date":"2012-06-08T11:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=22533"},"modified":"2012-06-11T13:03:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:03:56","slug":"camera-cables-chewed-by-crustacean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/06\/camera-cables-chewed-by-crustacean","title":{"rendered":"Camera Cables Chewed By Crustacean"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22534\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22534\" title=\"crustacean-bathynomus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/crustacean-bathynomus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/crustacean-bathynomus.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/crustacean-bathynomus-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bathynomus Giganteus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When one of their underwater camera systems stopped working, scientists at Cape Eleuthera investigated and found &#8216;teeth marks&#8217; in the cables.<\/p>\n<p>Edd Brooks of the Bahamas Cape Eleuthera Institute took a closer look at the cables and found that the teeth marks looked like a huge crustacean had gnawed on them. Specifically, Brooks said it appeared to be the work of a woodlouse whose scientific name is the Bathynomus giganteus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22535\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22535\" title=\"camera-cables\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/camera-cables.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/camera-cables.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/camera-cables-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/camera-cables-181x250.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chewed underwater camera system cables at Cape Eleuthera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8216;There\u2019s nothing else with mandibles that sharp,&#8217; says Brooks. &#8216;It was a Bathynomus attack.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The beast normally lives 8,500ft under water and is a super-sized cousin of the humble woodlouse, typically growing more than a foot long.<\/p>\n<p>Its legs are arranged in seven pairs, and its front two are able to manipulate and bring food to its four sets of jaws.<\/p>\n<p>It is a scavenger that feeds on dead whales, fish and shrimp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one of their underwater camera systems stopped working, scientists at Cape Eleuthera investigated and found &#8216;teeth marks&#8217; in the cables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[63,79],"class_list":["post-22533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-animals","tag-marine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}