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No, he confused silicon with sulfur. Can't find a good article but here's an example:

http://www.coml.org/discoveries/discoveries/new_species/sulphurbacteria.htm

A few minutes trawling the completely brilliant COML website photo gallery (WARNING: FLASH, but not very obnoxious as far as I can tell) turns up the following:

A Fathead (Psychrolutes microporos) trawled during the NORFANZ expeditions at a depth between 1013m and 1340m, on the Norfolk Ridge, nort-west of New Zealand, June 2003. Credit: NORFANZ Founding Parties Photographer Kerryn Parkingson; additional thanks to Peter McMIllan and Andrew Stewart.

I guess sad fish is sad because everyone calls him a fathead.

Isn't a census where you count every member of a population? Given that you can't really do that for every sea creature aren't they using the term as kind of a misnomer?

I think they know that, but here's their "about" page.

It's as complete as it has even been, and they've been working on it for a decade. I'm sure they know it's not 100% coverage, but they probably need to be able to explain it to lay-people.

coml.org Image Gallery (since for some reason I can't seem to find where the pictures are on the discover blog)

We don't even know how many species live in the oceans. See http://www.coml.org/ for details on the marin elife census. Last month, 100 new species were found by one expedition alone. Chances are that we are still only scratching the surface. So, how can these bozos predict the depletion of ocean life when they can't even count how many species, let alone individual organisms, are living in that habitat? The answer: they can't. More fucking scare tactics from the green fringe. Leave the real science to the scientists and go back tou your granola!