Mission Plan
This is the third year of a four year study to investigate the deep-water coral communities of the Gulf of Mexico.
Read more
This was the fourth cruise in a four-year project to discover and characterize deep-water coral communities in the Gulf of Mexico, to conduct a variety of experiments and analyses that will help us to predict where other communities will be found, and to understand why we find them where we do.
Learn moreA carbonate rock outcropping with various corals and sponges on it. The fish that is featured is called Hoplostethus—a relative of the orange roughy. Further in the clip, a conger eel grabs one of the Hoplostethus.
Learn moreVideo footage of a sixgill shark, a species of deep water shark fairly common in the Gulf of Mexico.
Learn moreThis large rock outcropping is covered with gorgonian and scleractinian corals, including Lophelia, and home to a galatheid crab.
Learn more
