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Do you believe it?

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We were blessed today with huge thickets of
coral.

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This one is at least three or five meters
long.

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Healthy.

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Yeah.

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Healthy wonderful reef on top of these mounds.

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Huge treat to see these.

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We're 160 miles from the east coast of Florida,
in the Atlantic Ocean.

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We are diving on two large mounds that were
recently discovered in the past two weeks.

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No one has ever dove here before.

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Today we've discovered two totally unknown
to science before Lophelia reefs.

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It's not totally uncommon for us to see these
large Lophelia mounds.

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The base of the mound is dead coral rubble and
then the tops of them are covered in these

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large, one-meter tall living Lophelia coral.

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It's just everywhere you look, there's something.

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Some animal growing.

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Lots and lots of sponges and life.

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Every single space is utilized here.

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They grow a third of a centimeter a year to
a centimeter a year,

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which is about the length of your pinky nail.

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That means that a one-meter tall coral is
about a thousand years old.

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That can give you an idea how old and precious
and sensitive these reefs are.

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This mound is over 60 meters tall.

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If a meter-long reef structure here is about
a thousand years old,

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imagine what 60 meters of mound and sediment
means.

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It could very well be that this mound is a
few hundred thousand years old.

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They used to think there was no life at the
bottom of the ocean.

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Boy were they wrong.

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And that wasn't even too long ago.

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Thanks to the technology now, we have the
ability to explore all of these areas, stay

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dry on the boat.

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You guys can explore with us live.

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Stay dry in your houses.