Sentences with phrase «underwater seamount»

Dive site is an underwater seamount full of soft corals, big boomies with glass fish below and many beautiful hard corals.

It makes for a perfect addition to your Cayman Dive Trip so you get to see the diversity of this amazing underwater seamount.

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Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and Washington, appears to be erupting — after two scientists had forecast that such an event would take place there in 2015.

The second spot was Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano, along with its associated hydrothermal vents, where the team could study the transfer of minerals from beneath the seafloor into the water and access hardy microbes that thrive in the vent fluids, which can reach 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

Associate Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science Amy Baco - Taylor, in collaboration with a team from Texas A&M University, observed these reefs during an autonomous underwater vehicle survey through the seamounts of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Geoscientists have just completed an expedition, part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), to a string of underwater volcanoes, or seamounts, in the Pacific Ocean known as the Louisville Seamount Trail.

And because many seamounts are located in remote surroundings — underwater islands, essentially — virtually every study finds species that were previously unknown and are endemic, meaning that they are unique to that area.

The key deep - sea habitats are the abyssal plains, hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, cold - water corals, seamounts (underwater mountains) and the deep - water column.

A great deal of deep - seas biodiversity is concentrated around seamounts which are underwater mountains that rise 1,000 meters or higher from the seabed without breaking the ocean's surface.

Seamounts are underwater mountains that rise hundreds or thousands of feet from the seafloor.

These seamounts, or underwater mountains, rise more than a thousand feet off the ocean floor, triggering a natural upwelling of nutrient - rich seawater that in turn attracts baitfish and the open - sea predators that feed upon them.

But it is also a destination for those who enjoy towering underwater walls, current - washed seamounts and big animal encounters.

This mesmerizing creature was spotted at a depth of around 3,700 meters (2.3 miles) during Dive 4 of NOAA's 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas, exploring an underwater mountain range that has been nicknamed «Enigmatic Seamount».

Underwater volcanoes, called seamounts, host a wide variety of corals in the Gulf of Alaska, and submarine Bering Sea canyons deeper and longer than the Grand Canyon are home to the second-most dense and diverse areas of Alaska coral areas known.

Signed by Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla Miranda in an Executive Decree on Thursday March 3, the declaration formalizes the creation of the new marine protected area surrounding Cocos Island National Park to improve the conservation of this unique oceanic island, conserve an entire marine ecosystem, and protect a group of seamounts (underwater mountains) southwest of Cocos Island.