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Isn't this beautiful? It's Paragorgia, a living coral, with basket stars intertwined. Once on board, samples are rushed into cold seawater holding buckets and the specimens are separated from each other. Keeping live samples alive as long as possible - up to a week or even more on occasion -- is the goal.


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Isn't this beautiful? It's Paragorgia, a living coral, with basket stars intertwined. Once on board, samples are rushed into cold seawater holding buckets and the specimens are separated from each other. Keeping live samples alive as long as possible - up to a week or even more on occasion—is the goal.

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