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September 24, 2021: King Crab

This spiky king crab in the genus Neolithodes was seen clinging to a bamboo coral during a Windows to the Deep 2018 dive at Blake Escarpment South, located off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina.

Image courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, Windows to the Deep 2018. Download larger version (jpg, 848 KB).

This spiky king crab in the genus Neolithodes was seen clinging to a bamboo coral during a Windows to the Deep 2018 dive at Blake Escarpment South, located off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina. We observed a high density and diversity of corals throughout the dive, including black, bamboo, and scleractinian corals, along with several other octocorals and sponges.