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A beautiful image here,
this uh featherstar or

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unstalked crinoid. This 
is a really interesting

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image Daniel, and I
wonder if the crinoid

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landed and irritated the
polyps there and that's

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why there is no longer
any tissue in the

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underneath the crinoid
serial are. Yeah just

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reminded me of all these
discussions we've been

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having about some of
these unbranched corals

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that are sometimes
branched. And maybe

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crinoids or other
animals could facilitate

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that by clearing this
little section and then

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something could settle
on it. Exactly, I'm so

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glad you said that.
That's precisely what I

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was thinking. You when
we were having these

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discussions on other
dives, and we speculated

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that perhaps there's
something that damages

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the tissues, exposes
part of the skeleton and

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then as the tissue grows
back-perhaps it starts a

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new growth axis that
results in a branch. So

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clearly the need here is
to dislodge that crinoid

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and then come back in
thirty years and see if

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there is a branch.
That's quite an

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experiment. All right.