These look very healthy. They do. Tissue all around. You don’t see bare skeleton, so these are happy, healthy colonies, it looks like.
Bamboos dated in the past have been over hundreds of years old.
And as we’re zoomed in like this, you can see the particles in the water moving around the coral as well.
It’s likely that that’s part of the reason that these corals here, is that there is that particle movement, which is likely food for these corals.
As those particles are moving through the water, they’re able to close the polyp up and eat some of that organic matter.
I see Amy looking up at screen 2 right now, which is the Seirios feed, to get a sense of just how large these are.
These bamboo corals will be one of the highlights of this dive. The size of them is quite phenomenal. It really is.