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Operation Deep Slope 2006. This sample of a seep community off of the westerncoast of Africa was taken with a box corer. Even though this community is onthe opposite side of the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico, it bears a strikingresemblance to the seep communities being studied in the Gulf of Mexico. (Image credit: Image courtesy of TDI-Brooks.)