Finding Coral Expedition

In June 2009, Living Oceans Society led the Finding Coral Expedition, a journey to the bottom of the sea on Canada's Pacific coast in search of deep sea corals. Using one person submarines, a team of international scientists made 30 dives to depths of over 500 meters and saw giant coral forests, darting schools of fish, and a seafloor carpeted in brittle stars. This research trip was the culmination of five years of work to secure protection for these slow-growing and long-lived animals, which provide critical habitat for fish and other marine creatures that live in the deep corners of our ocean.

The Finding Coral Expedition is the first of its kind in British Columbia: an expedition specifically designed to study deep water corals and document threats to their well being. The science team is currently analyzing hundreds of hours of dive video to list all the species seen during the dives. The team will also assess species relationships in the coral ecosystems visited by the expedition.

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[floydstinkyboy]

excellent. they need to change the name of bottom trawling to ocean bulldozing.