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Screenshot from video of fish swimming in clear blue water in the Cabo Pulmo reserve.
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Cabo Pulmo World Heritage Biosphere Reserve

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Ocean scientists inside the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible travel to deep-sea coral ecosystems up to 3,000 m (9,843 ft) below the ocean’s surface.
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Johnson Sea Link Submersible

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a sea fan grows over dead coral
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Waving Sea Fans

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Octocorals dominated the seafloor on Chris Mah's Okeanos mission to Johnston Atoll in the remote Pacific Ocean.
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Deep-sea octocorals: An ecosystem of their own

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Marine Microbes

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Medicines from the Sea

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Tiny bits and pieces of plastic can be found throughout the ocean, like these collected from the open ocean by net.
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The “Plastisphere:" A new marine ecosystem

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Many medicines were based on a chemical from the sea sponge Tectitethya crypta.
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Five Questions for Shirley Pomponi, Medical Sponge Hunter

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A white coral (Corallium sp.) and two vase sponges (left) grow on an Atlantic Ocean seamount.
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Balanus Seamount

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Screenshot from video of fish swimming in clear blue water in the Cabo Pulmo reserve.
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Cabo Pulmo Reserva de la Biosfera del Patrimonio Mundial

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