Researchers discovered the coral gardens using a remotely operated vehicle known as SuBastian.
Trotter and her team on board the Falkor research vessle—owned by the Schmidt Ocean Institute—used their ROV, dubbed"SuBastian," to investigate the canyon to depths of up to 13,000 feet, imaging the deep-sea coral gardens and collecting various biological and geological samples.
Analyzing the fossils corals from this deep-sea habitat can help scientists to reconstruct recent and long-term ocean environmental records, including how factors such as temperature, water pH and nutrients, change over time. "This has global implications given these waters originate from around Antarctica which feed all of the major oceans and regulate our climate system" Malcolm McCulloch, another member of the research expedition from UWA, said in a statement.
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