Collecting Deep-sea Marine Sponges (IMAGE)

Florida Atlantic University

Collecting Deep-sea Marine Sponges

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For more than 30 years, FAU Harbor Branch scientists have accumulated sea sponges and other macro-organisms from the east coast of the US, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean as well as European and African deep waters using manned submersibles and other methods.

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FAU's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

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