A close up of one of the impacted corals. A small amount of apparently living tissue on the tips of some branches is orange. Most of the skeleton is bare or covered by brown flocculent material.
 Living Tissue?
Image courtesy of Lophelia II 2010, NOAA OER and BOEMRE. Download image (jpg, 108 KB).

A close up of one of the impacted corals. A small amount of apparently living tissue on the tips of some branches is orange. Most of the skeleton is bare or covered by brown flocculent material.