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I stumbled across an excellent site tonight, Life on the Edge 2004. This is the info, logs, and teaching resources page for a joint UNC Wilmington, USGS and NOAA research expedition to explore deep water ocean habitats on the mid-Atlantic coast. Among other things, they are looking for more samples of deep water corals. They discovered a number of things, one of my favorites though is the hermit crabs that have an anemone for a “shell.”