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Figure 2.
(a) Closed-circuit rebreather diver sampling corals at 65 m on a lettuce coral,
Agaricia undata
, fringe reef on the Grammanik
Bank, St. Thomas. (b) Dense boulder star corals,
Orbicella franksi
, between USVI and Puerto Rico at 35 m. (c) A dog snapper,
Lutjanus jocu
,
at a fish spawning site south of St. Thomas at 30 m (photos Tyler B. Smith).
(a)
(b)
(c)