A beautiful image here, this uh featherstar or
unstalked crinoid. This is a really interesting
image Daniel, and I wonder if the crinoid
landed and irritated the polyps there and that's
why there is no longer any tissue in the
underneath the crinoid serial are. Yeah just
reminded me of all these discussions we've been
having about some of these unbranched corals
that are sometimes branched. And maybe
crinoids or other animals could facilitate
that by clearing this little section and then
something could settle on it. Exactly, I'm so
glad you said that. That's precisely what I
was thinking. You when we were having these
discussions on other dives, and we speculated
that perhaps there's something that damages
the tissues, exposes part of the skeleton and
then as the tissue grows back-perhaps it starts a
new growth axis that results in a branch. So
clearly the need here is to dislodge that crinoid
and then come back in thirty years and see if
there is a branch. That's quite an
experiment. All right.