Collecting Deep-water Marine Sponges Using a Submarine (VIDEO)
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The deep-water marine sponge was collected using the Johnson Sea Link submarine. For years, scientists at FAU's Harbor Branch have been collecting unusual marine organisms -- many of them from deep-water habitats -- that are the source of novel natural products. The majority of samples come primarily from around the Atlantic and Caribbean; others have come from the Galapagos, western Pacific, Mediterranean, Indo-Pacific, Western Africa and the Bering Sea.
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Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
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Credit: Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
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