Largest deep-sea coral reef: How it was discovered The reef is too deep to explore by scuba diving, and that's why the mapping was done using 31 multi-beam sonars, according to the news release.

"Many [deep-sea corals] live for hundreds of years, with some colonies living over 4,000 years," NOAA says, with latest discovery revealing nearly 84,000 individual coral mound peak features.

We generally think of deep-sea corals as being relatively safe from the clutches of climate change, so when a team of scientists from the University of Plymouth first came across bleaching damage ...

Coral reef bleaching across happens when stressed coral ... by warming sea temperatures and subsequent coral bleaching. Is it possible for these sea creatures to ... deep into the Atlantic Ocean ...

Because it's farther down, deep-sea reefs don't have the same problem with coral bleaching, coral that turns white from stress from environmental changes such as climate change and recent record ...

The new maps revealed thousands of previously unknown "mounds" of deep-sea corals, also known as cold-water corals, spread almost continuously across an area covering 6.4 million acres (2.6 ...

The white coloring is healthy—deep-sea corals don’t rely on symbiotic algae so they can’t bleach! Credit: NOAA Unlike the colorful reefs found in sunlit tropical waters, this one is mostly made up of ...

Discrete Pulses of Cooler Deep Water Can Decelerate Coral Bleaching During Thermal Stress: Implications for Artificial Upwelling During Heat Stress Events. Frontiers in Marine Science , 2020; 7 ...

It's hard to imagine a coral reef this size going largely undetected until now, but it's a sign of just how much of the ocean remains unmapped. World's largest deep-sea coral reef mapped 100 miles ...

The white coloring is healthy–deep-sea corals don’t rely on symbiotic algae, so they can’t bleach. Images of these corals were taken during a 2019 expedition dive off the coast of Florida.

Normally, deep-sea reefs have a relatively low proportion of coral coverage, about 10-20%, per the news release. But this system stands out for its particular vigor: an estimated 50-60% live coral ...

Scientists have found the world’s largest-known deep sea coral habitat off the Southeast coast and a portion lies just 90 miles offshore from Georgia.