AUSTRALIA SCIENCE DEEP SEA STUDY

Images from a scientific voyage Into the Tasman Fracture

A handout photo released by CSIRO, Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory WHOI, 18 January 2009, of a half-metre-wide mouth of a 2-metre high "waffle-cone" sponge, found at a depth of 2197 metres, as photographed during a scientific voyage Into the Tasman Fracture, a four kilometre-deep crack in the earth's crust off the coast of Tasmania. The study marks the first time lifeforms at such depths have been studied in Australia. EPA/CSIRO/HO AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND OUT, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

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