Specimen of Corallium species collected from a large high-density deep-sea coral and sponge community encountered on the ridge crest of Pioneer Bank. An ROV dive here during the cruise revealed that a known high-density community further upslope extended at least six kilometers down the ridge to where the dive was conducted.
Corallium
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Specimen of Corallium species collected from a large high-density deep-sea coral and sponge community encountered on the ridge crest of Pioneer Bank. An ROV dive here during the cruise revealed that a known high-density community further upslope extended at least six kilometers down the ridge to where the dive was conducted.

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