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March 25, 2021: Coral

A close look at the beautiful pink polyps of an octocoral, likely Hemicorallium, seen while exploring an unnamed guyot informally dubbed “Delilah Seamount'' in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deepwater Wonders of Wake. Download larger version (jpg, 1.4 MB).

A close look at the beautiful pink polyps of an octocoral, likely Hemicorallium, seen while exploring an unnamed guyot informally dubbed “Delilah Seamount'' in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. During the dive, the team encountered a large high-density coral community, highlighted in this video.