We're actually having quite a deep dive today. We started
this dive at 3,443 meters depth.
Yeah, it's really it's like a boulder field that we've landed
in today. You know, from a biological perspective where we
see changing textures like this, we often see a change in
fauna. It's a very different organism that likes to live on
a flat plane versus an organism that likes to live on kind of
jumbled up rocky areas. And we've just seen a lot of
organisms so far considering the depth we were potentially
not expecting quite so much. A lot of these corals grow at
just a few millimeters per year, food is relatively
scarce. Uh these corals down here don't have the zooxanthellae
like the upper ocean corals do. They don't photosynthesize so they
rely on food fall.
You can see more of these bamboo corals. We are fortunate
enough to get a little collection of uh uh a small
branch of one of these bamboo corals. So we do potentially
have some confirmation that bamboo coral collection is one
of the deepest uh that's ever been made. So these are kind of
very fun areas to explore.