Chris D'Angelo/HuffPost A deep-sea submersible launch from R/V Alvin off the coast of Delaware on Monday. A team of scientists is currently exploring uncharted canyons, gas seeps and coral ecosystems off the Atlantic coast. Cordes expects these Atlantic coral structures could be hundreds of thousands of years old. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Scientists aboard the research ship Atlantis have discovered a dense coral reef off the coast of South Carolina. This picture was taken Friday by cameras mounted on the deep-sea submersible Alvin.

Source: Huffington Post August 26, 2018 01:30 UTC