Siphonophores

Casey Dunn put together these siphonophore clips from a series of dives by remotely operated underwater vehicles at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (mbari.org, with thanks to Steve Haddock). For more information on siphonophores, a group of deep-sea colonial animals, see siphonophores.org.
taken from:
vimeo.com/4621997

[@huyenbella5105]

Wow

[@DaveBryant_ByronBay]

Gidday from Melbourne, Down Under...
have a look at this video I filmed in 2002, East coast Australia - a real life Siphonophore I found while diving the shallows at the local Wharf dive site.
The night before had seen a huge lightning storm which whipped up large seas
and I'm guessing, brought in some other deep sea creatures into the shallow waters. My film was shot with the older 4:3 format Mini DV, which is unfortunately lower resolution than what we can now get from an HD camera, or even a GoPro.
Enjoy my video......
Siphonophore - Merimbula Wharf 2002.m4v

[@OrcaReef]

25....this is a vertibrae but that looks a lot like a backbone. Is it some sort of adaptation. I know it is a colony of many different animals so could that be part of the internal organisms?