Friday Deep-Sea Picture (06/22/07)

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I am out to sea this week exploring deep-sea life on seamounts.  A cruise in 2004 to the San Juan yielded this photo. Brisingid and basket stars, white trumpet and frilled sponges, and a bamboo coral (in the background) are living attached to a lava flow. Copyright MBARI