Figure 6.
Bathymetric map of the east coast of Puerto Rico including the U.S. V
Islands
Observations of the physical features of deep reefs around Puerto Rico and the U
Virgin Islands are essentially limited to the video records of the Johnson Sea-Link
submersible survey at several well known deep-sea snapper fishing areas (Nelson a
Appledoorn, 1985) and the recent SeaBED platform imaging surveys of the Marine
Conservation District Hind Bank near St. Thomas and the South Drop near St. John
irgin
. S.
nd
SVI) (Singh, 2003; Armstrong et al., in press). The Johnson Sea-Link survey
(U
described benthic habitat types of the Puertorrican insular slope at depths between 100
– 450 meters, whereas the SeaBED surveyed depths between 33 – 90 meters.
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Bathymetric map of the east coast of Puerto Rico including the U.S. V
Islands
Observations of the physical features of deep reefs around Puerto Rico and the U
Virgin Islands are essentially limited to the video records of the Johnson Sea-Link
submersible survey at several well known deep-sea snapper fishing areas (Nelson a
Appledoorn, 1985) and the recent SeaBED platform imaging surveys of the Marine
Conservation District Hind Bank near St. Thomas and the South Drop near St. John
irgin
. S.
nd
SVI) (Singh, 2003; Armstrong et al., in press). The Johnson Sea-Link survey
(U
described benthic habitat types of the Puertorrican insular slope at depths between 100
– 450 meters, whereas the SeaBED surveyed depths between 33 – 90 meters.
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