Amy Baco-Taylor¹, Rebecca Ross², Franzis Althaus³, Amelia Bridges⁴, Saskia Brix⁵, Ana Colaço⁶, Malcolm R Clark⁷, Cherisse Du Preez⁸, Mari-Lise Franken⁹, Genoveva Gonzalez-Mirelis¹⁰, Ellen Kenchington¹¹, Lisa A Levin¹², Dhugal Lindsay¹³, Tina Molodtsova¹⁴, Nicole Morgan¹⁵, Telmo Morato¹⁶, Beatriz Eugenia Mejia-Mercado¹, David O'Sullivan¹⁷, Karine Olu¹⁸, Tabitha Pearman¹⁹, David Price¹⁹, Katleen Robert²⁰, Ashley Alun Rowden⁷, James Taylor²¹, Lisette Victorero²², Les Watling²³, Alan Williams³, Chris Yesson²⁴ and the DOSI working group on VMEs from Imagery, (1)Florida State University, Earth, Ocean, Atmospheric Sciences, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)Institute of Marine Research, Norway, (3)CSIRO, TAS, Australia, (4)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (5)Seckenberg Research Institute, Germany, (6)University of the Azores, Institute of Marine Research, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, (7)National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (8)Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Deep-Sea Ecology Program, Sidney, BC, Canada, (9)South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa, (10)Institute of Marine Research Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (11)Bedforf Institute of Oceanography, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, (12)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (13)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan, (14)P.P Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia, (15)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (16)University of Azores, Portugal, (17)Irish Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland, (18)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (19)National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (20)Memorial University of Newfoundland, Fisheries and marine Institute, St John's, NF, Canada, (21)Senckenberg, Germany, (22)Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France, (23)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (24)Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom