based on http://photolib.noaa.gov/lb_images/nurp/images/big/nur01504.jpg
A dense bed of brittle stars can get their food from the water or bottom.
Ophiura sarsii. 
Location: Temperate Atlantic Ocean, offshore Cape Hatteras.
Photo Date: 1991 August
Photographer: S. Stancyk
Credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP)
