The team found hordes of the shrimp, up to 2,000 per 3 square feet, around the 20 feet-tall mineral spires of the vents. They named them Rimicaris hybisae, after the unmanned deep diving vehicle HyBIS that they used to collect, photograph and 
film them.

One of the leaders of the expedition, Jon Copley of the UK’s University of Southampton’s National Oceanography Centre, was quoted by the Cayman Free Press as saying: “We only collected a few 
specimens during the expedition in 2010, but the shrimp that throngs around both vents is a new species.” These kinds of shrimp fby deep thermal vents do not have eyes in the traditional sense, but instead have a pair of light-sensing organs on their back that may help them navigate in the faint glow of the deep-sea vents. The shrimp are just over an inch long.