NOAA Davidson Seamount Expedition

Deep sea life on Davidson sea mount - West US 1500m depth. The Davidson seamount is an impressive feature that has intrigued people since it was first charted as a 'sea mountain' in 1933. The seamount is located 120km southwest of Monterey, California, it is an inactive volcano 2,300m tall and 40km wide, yet its summit is 1,300m below the ocean surface. Davidson Seamount is geologically young but has remarkable biological communities, including large, dense patches of sponges and apparently extremely old coral forests, with individuals commonly reaching more than 3m in height. The seamount is also home to a wide variety of fish, eels, sponges, jellyfish, sea anemones, sea stars and brittle stars.

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Deep Sea Bottom Trawling

The deep sea is the last undiscovered frontier on the planet. Once thought to be void of life, scientists now estimate between 500,000 to 100,000,000 species live in the deep sea, with many of these species situated around seamounts (underwater mountains). Bottom trawling is destroying unique and fragile deep sea life in an effort to catch what amounts to very few fish. Scientists now consider bottom trawling to be the biggest threat to deep sea life and are warning of the extinction of creatures virtually unknown to science and whole habitats being wiped out. Over 1000 scientists from 60 countries, issued a statement in December calling for a global moratorium on high seas bottom trawling.

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Unique identifier: GP03IMH

Type: Video

Shoot date: 24/05/2004

Locations: California, North America, United States of America

Duration: 1m15s

Audio format: Mute

File size 114.21 MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)