Posted 08.06.04 at 2:08 pm

On the Aleutian seafloor, a short-spine thornyhead rockfish and king crab sit among a variety of corals (clockwise from top left) including white hydrocorals, a (pink) Primnoa and a (red) Paragorgia. The image was taken August 4 during a NOAA Undersea Research Program coral research cruise using the remotely operated submersible Jason II. NOAA Research