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Marine debris. A brown bottle on the seafloor next to a colony of zoanthids.
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Marine debris. A monofilament longline strewn along the seafloor. Notice thelarge brittle star with black central disk and black and brown barred arms.
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Marine debris. Probably an old telephone or telegraph cable.
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Apparently marine debris. Plastic? Fur attached to white base?
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Marine debris. An abandoned length of cable.
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Marine debris? Sponges surrounding what appears to be old iron debris.
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What appears to be marine debris - an encrusted cable with a venus flytrap anemone.
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Paramuricea coral with sickly looking brittle stars in the vicinity of Deepwater Horizon.
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Side view of a red Paragorgia coral bush.
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Some coral and anthozoids covered with brown flocculent material. Coral atbottom, anthozoids at top. Bleached color of brittle star arms is abnormal.Both the coral and the zoanthids are normally a vibrant yellow.
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Paramuricid corals covered with brown flucculent material. White color ofbrittle star on left abnormal. Probable that coral bush to left and in rightbottom center have no living tissue.
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A potentially dying coral colony with two attached brittle stars and twoanemones. A small amount of apparently living tissue on some branches isorange to olive in color. Portions of the skeleton can be seen covered withbrown flocculent material. T
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An impacted paramuricid coral with associated brittle stars. Although the coral is living with polyps extended, its colors are abnormal as is the coloration of the brittle star on the left.
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Paramuricid coral covered with brown flocculent material.
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A closeup view of the upper portion of a yellow octocoral with parts of branches, with tissues and polyps present, covered with a brown flocculent material.
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Impacted coral with some brown flocculent material and brittle star withabnormal color.
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Living but impacted coral with polyps extended. Brittle star is abnormal coloras is base of anemones.
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A portion of an impacted coral with attached brittle stars. Living tissue isorange but much of the skeleton is bare or coveed by brown flocculentmaterial. The left brittle star is of normal coloration but the individual toits right is bleached whit
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Coral impacted by Deepwater Horizon disaster with an attached brittle star andan anemone in a typical place on the coral. Living tissue, including the coralpolyps, can be seen here as olive colored with bare patches revealing skeletonand attached br
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ROV manipulator arm sampling impacted coral and associated brittle star.
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