There is a huge gap in knowledge of deep seafloor habitats. Current methods of studying the deep seafloor require sediment collection. Given the current pressure to mine the deep sea, there is an urgent need for cost-effective tools to better profile and understand this environment. This project proposes adapting a shallow water sediment profiler to deep water -7000m- to collect images in UV-VIS-NIR of the last 10-20 thousand years of records.