During the recent #Okeanos Beyond the Blue: Papahānaumokuākea ROV and Mapping expedition, we explored 12 seamounts, many of which had never been explored before. Seamounts are important habitats in the deep ocean. Rising off the ocean floor, seamounts interact with water flowing around them. In addition to carrying sediment away and exposing hard surfaces on which organisms can attach and grow, the currents around seamounts carry food to sessile organisms and can produce localized upwelling, del