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Description
A softball-sized sponge, along with the dark manganese-coated rockrock on which it sat, collected from 700-ft depths off Charleston.This melon sponge, collected from the Blake Plateau, (Image credit: Islands in the Stream Expedition 2002. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration | Cindy Cooksey)
Credit
Islands in the Stream Expedition 2002. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration
Photographer
Cindy Cooksey
Location
South Atlantic Bight, Southeast United States
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
Atlantic Shelf and Slope
NOAA Affiliation
NOAA NOS
Keywords
Ocean Exploration
Invertebrates