The Atlantic Canyons and Seamounts is an underwater ecological hotspot about 150 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. It’s a thriving, incredibly diverse biological ecosystem, where hundreds of species of fish and invertebrates swarm over underwater mountains called seamounts. Several canyons there plunge into black depths teeming with a broad array of life, including colorful species of deep water corals, some of which grow over ten feet tall and are known to live for over a thousand years. It’s also been the site of exciting recent scientific discovery: an number of species believed to be new to science were found on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expedition in 2013.
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