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We are moving west towards the
coastline. The gray box you see

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here is the Habitat Area of
Particular Concern established

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by the South Atlantic Fisheries
Management Council. This

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protects the sea floor here
from bottom disturbing

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activities recognizing the
sensitive nature of the corals

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in the region. There's an
estimation of 60, 000 deep sea

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coral reefs right in this area.
There's actually more deep-sea

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coral reefs off Florida than
there are shallow water coral

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reefs off Florida. It's normal
for a see this rubble on the

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sides of these mounds. These
mounds are made through

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hundreds of thousands of years
of coral growing and then the

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base of that coral dying and
filling in with sediment and

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then over time it can grow up
to 300 meters tall. They have

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cord down to the bottom of one
of these and at the base of it

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in the core was over a million
years old. These take a long

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time to build them.