Dense colonies of tubeworms, limpets and palm worms cover the outer walls of the blacksmoker chimney called Mushroom in the ASHES hydrothermal field on Axial Seamount. Credit; UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; V11.
This video of tubeworms at a vent site on the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the northeast Pacific was taken using an high-definition underwater video camera during the VISIONS '05 expedition in September 2005.