Two years of ship tracks plotted over the Cape Fear deep coral bank area off North Carolina.

Two years of ship tracks plotted over the Cape Fear deep coral bank area off North Carolina, illustrating dense coverage of single beam sonar (left panel). Using those data allowed a plot of depth zones in detail. Image courtesy of Ross et al.

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