The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has been churning out a lot of eye popping videos lately. Hot on the heels of the unbelievable barreleye fish, this video footage from the Davidson Seamount includes many rarely seen deep water corals, sponges, anemones, fish and invertebrates. The Davidson Seamount is located about 75 miles off the California and it rises 1.5 miles off the ocean bottom to half a mile below the ocean surface. The Seamount contains a very high density of deep water marine life that is usually much more spread out in the nutrient poor environments of the ocean depths. The narrator states that some of the corals found there live for hundreds of years and grow to 9 feet tall . With a growth rate of half an inch per year, imagine trying to grow a deep water reef from frags, yikes.
Rare video footage of deepwater marine life on Davidson Seamount
Jake Adams
Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.
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