We are moving west towards the coastline. The gray box you see
here is the Habitat Area of Particular Concern established
by the South Atlantic Fisheries Management Council. This
protects the sea floor here from bottom disturbing
activities recognizing the sensitive nature of the corals
in the region. There's an estimation of 60, 000 deep sea
coral reefs right in this area. There's actually more deep-sea
coral reefs off Florida than there are shallow water coral
reefs off Florida. It's normal for a see this rubble on the
sides of these mounds. These mounds are made through
hundreds of thousands of years of coral growing and then the
base of that coral dying and filling in with sediment and
then over time it can grow up to 300 meters tall. They have
cord down to the bottom of one of these and at the base of it
in the core was over a million years old. These take a long
time to build them.