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Too big to fit in any of the sample boxes this sample would have to be brought to the surface locked in the Alvin’s mechanical arm.


This skeleton of a bamboo coral colony was covered in bryozoans. This specimen was much too big to fit in any of the sample boxes and was brought to the surface locked in the Alvin’s mechanical arm. Image courtesy of NOAA, WHOI, the Alvin Group and the 2004 GOA Seamount Exploration Science Party


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