Mediterranean moray (Muraena helena) in black coral (Stichopathes sp.) field, pictured north of the Canary Islands, Spain during the 2014 Oceana Ranger expedition to the Canary Islands. (Photo:EUO © OCEANA / Flickr)
The Dacia and Tritón seamounts, located just north of the Canary Islands, have gone previously undocumented—until now. During Oceana in Europe’s current expedition to the Canary Islands, Oceana took the first pictures of these mountains and revealed extensive forests of black corals on the summit of Dacia, and a great diversity of sponges on the slopes of Tritón, including spectacular glass sponges and carnivorous sponges, gorgonians, corals, deep-sea fish, deep-sea sharks, and more.
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