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Mountains in the Sea Expedition.Field of yellow Enallopsammia stony coral and pink Candidella,with various sponges, whip coral, and brittle stars.
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Mountains in the Sea Expedition.Basalt ridge with crinoids, corals, and sponges.
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Mountains in the Sea Expedition.Basalt rocks covered in corals (live and dead), crinoids, sponges, and brittle stars.
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Mountains in the Sea Expedition.Forest of bamboo whip corals standing 10-12 feet in height.
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Mountains in the Sea Expedition.Beautiful bouquet of Lophelia, Candidella, and solitary cup coralswith brittle stars, crinoids, and various sponges.
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Mountains in the Sea Expedition.Bright yellow sponge with whip-like bamboo corals and aggregation ofLophelia, Enallopsammia, and various other sponges and corals.
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Mountains in the Sea Expedition.Stunning yellow Enallopsammia stony coral with pink Candidellateeming with brittle stars.
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Mountains in the Sea Expedition.Lovely spiraling Iridigorgia coral with brightly colored (apparent)commensal shrimp.
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Mountains in the Sea Expedition.Bouquet of Corallium with deep purple Trachythela octocoral, brittle
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Charleston Bump Expedition. Surprising small dimensions of coral branch inimage expl0141 .
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This beautiful pale orange coral was collected at the Lophelia coral banks.Very different from the surrounding pale white Lophelia, The members of theIslands in the Stream 2002 expedition had never seen this type of coralbefore among the Lophelia dur
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Deep sea coral Bathypathes sp.
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Deep-sea corals form important habitats for unique and diverse array of marinelife. Live bushes of the deep-sea coral, Lophelia, may act likeisland oases in the deep sea.
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This small chunk of Lophelia coral lives in almost utter darkness hundredsof feet below the sea surface. Lophelia has been found to grow inmassive thickets is some areas off the coast of North Carolina.
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The Life on the Edge 2004 mission has collected a diverse array ofinvertebrate life around deep-sea corals. Squat lobsters are just one ofthe many types of organisms that use deep-sea corals for shelter.
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Fauna on the continental slope. Little sediment as this area is swept by theGulf Stream.
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The submersible's manipulator arm collecting a crab trap containing fivegalatheid crabs. This is an eel trap that has been modified tobetter catch deep sea fauna. Life on the Edge 2005 Expedition.
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Oculina sp.
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Zigzag coral (Madrepora oculata).
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Stylaster? coral.
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