Marine scientists have found and mapped the world's largest known deep-sea coral reef: a hidden ecosystemThe discovery was the painstaking product of 23 submersible dives and 31 multibeam sonar mapping surveys, researchers revealed, all in the service of charting the Atlantic ocean's deep-set Blake Plateau.The plateau's deep-sea or cold-water coral ecosystem stretches nearly 311 miles from Miami, to Charleston, South Carolina. And it's east-to-west width reaches passed 68 miles in some regions.
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