The site for Dive 06 of the second Voyage to the Ridge 2022 expedition, located along the upper slopes of a Mid-Atlantic Ridge parallel normal fault, provided ideal conditions needed to support beautiful, diverse, and dense coral and sponge communities.
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Video courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, Voyage to the Ridge 2022.
Voyage to the Ridge 2022: Dive 06: Kurchatov Ridge
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