A decade of oceanographic mapping of the Blake Plateau, which sits approximately 200 miles offshore of Georgia, has recently revealed it as the largest deep-sea coral habitat on earth.

Human fingernails grow a couple of millimeters every month. Deep sea corals grow that much in a year. Some of the deep-sea corals on the Blake Plateau, partially offshore from South Carolina, are ...

We lack permanent protections against deep-sea trawling and removal of economically viable species at Blake Plateau off SC coast. That endangers coral mounds.