A softball-sized sponge, along with the dark manganese-coated rockrock on which it sat, collected from 700-ft depths off Charleston.This melon sponge, collected from the Blake Plateau,
4/8/2019 12:05:55 PM
Photographer: Cindy Cooksey
Affiliation: NOAA NOS
Credit: Islands in the Stream Expedition 2002. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration
Location: South Atlantic Bight, Southeast United States
Subject: Ocean exploration
Subject: Invertebrates