Scientists on the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow used a towed camera system to ground-truth areas previously mapped by NOAA Ships Okeanos Explorer and Ferdinand R. Hassler. The camera imaged this deep-sea coral, Paragorgia arborea, on the edge of Hendrickson Canyon (ca. 1,775 meters) in the Toms Canyon complex.
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Image courtesy of Nizinski et al. NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC, WHOI 2012. Download larger version (jpg, 9.0 MB).
Scientists on the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow used a towed camera system to ground-truth areas previously mapped by NOAA Ships Okeanos Explorer and Ferdinand R. Hassler. The camera imaged this deep-sea coral, Paragorgia arborea, on the edge of Hendrickson Canyon (ca. 1,775 meters) in the Toms Canyon complex.
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