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![This beautiful pale orange coral was collected at the Lophelia coral banks expl0350.jpg This beautiful pale orange coral was collected at the Lophelia coral banks](https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3-east-testmedia-noaa.woc.noaa.gov/dam/Photos/legacy/pl23_expl0350.jpg)
Description
This beautiful pale orange coral was collected at the Lophelia coral banks.Very different from the surrounding pale white Lophelia, The members of theIslands in the Stream 2002 expedition had never seen this type of coralbefore among the Lophelia during their dives.
Credit
Islands in the Stream Expedition 2002. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration
Photographer
Bruce Moravchik
Location
South Atlantic Bight, Southeast United States
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
Atlantic Shelf and Slope
NOAA Affiliation
NOAA
Keywords
Ocean Exploration
Invertebrates
Deep sea coral