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A softball-sized sponge, along with the dark manganese-coated rockrock on which it sat, collected from 700-ft depths off Charleston

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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,

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