Do you believe it?
We were blessed today with huge thickets of coral.
This one is at least three or five meters long.
Healthy.
Yeah.
Healthy wonderful reef on top of these mounds.
Huge treat to see these.
We're 160 miles from the east coast of Florida, in the Atlantic Ocean.
We are diving on two large mounds that were recently discovered in the past two weeks.
No one has ever dove here before.
Today we've discovered two totally unknown to science before Lophelia reefs.
It's not totally uncommon for us to see these large Lophelia mounds.
The base of the mound is dead coral rubble and then the tops of them are covered in these
large, one-meter tall living Lophelia coral.
It's just everywhere you look, there's something.
Some animal growing.
Lots and lots of sponges and life.
Every single space is utilized here.
They grow a third of a centimeter a year to a centimeter a year,
which is about the length of your pinky nail.
That means that a one-meter tall coral is about a thousand years old.
That can give you an idea how old and precious and sensitive these reefs are.
This mound is over 60 meters tall.
If a meter-long reef structure here is about a thousand years old,
imagine what 60 meters of mound and sediment means.
It could very well be that this mound is a few hundred thousand years old.
They used to think there was no life at the bottom of the ocean.
Boy were they wrong.
And that wasn't even too long ago.
Thanks to the technology now, we have the ability to explore all of these areas, stay
dry on the boat.
You guys can explore with us live.
Stay dry in your houses.