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.

Recently, scientific expeditions completed a comprehensive map of the Blake Plateau, revealing the full extent of the area’s ancient deep-sea coral mounds, likely hundreds of thousands, possibly ...

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