Dive 17: Corals!
Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Exploring Deep-sea Habitats off Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Download larger version (mp4, 58.4 MB).

Deepwater corals are among the most poorly understood groups of animals in the deep ocean. At this site, south of Mona Island, we observed some fantastically diverse deepwater coral communities, often with colonies providing some form of habitat to other associated invertebrate organisms.

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