A small isolated "thicket" of Paragorgia corals

A small isolated "thicket" of Paragorgia on a projecting outcrop (surrounded by mud) in Lydonia Canyon at 1043 m depth, taken during an Alvin dive in 1980. Image courtesy of Deep East 2001, Barbara Hecker, NOAA/OER.

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