[Coral-List] Book on "Deep-water coral reefs"

Osmar Luiz osmarjluiz at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 01:55:33 UTC 2020


What about submersibles navigation?  :):):)



> On 30 Nov 2020, at 9:01 am, Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> But they are hundreds to thousands of feet deep.  There are no surface
> ships with drafts that deep.  Not a hazard to navigation.
>     People just like to name them "reefs" because coral reefs are so
> famous.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 11:16 AM David Blakeway <
> fathom5marineresearch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 'Deep water coral reefs' sounds ok to me. They are still hazards to
>> navigation for those navigating them.
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 4:02 AM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
>> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hovland, Martin.  2008.  Deep-water coral reefs"  Springer
>>> 
>>> https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402084614
>>> 
>>> So no question about this terminology being in general use in the
>>> scientific community.
>>> 
>>> Chapter 1 Introduction
>>> 
>>> "The term "coral reef" is traditionally used on large tropical
>>> shallow-water formations, which represent dangers to navigation.  Even
>>> though the deep-water coral accumulations do not represent dangerous
>>> "reefs", as such, it has become a habit calling them "reefs."  A viable,
>>> and perhaps more appropriate alternative would be to call them deep water
>>> "bioherms", but, even so, the more common reef concept will be used in
>>> this
>>> book."
>>> 
>>> Cheers, Doug
>>> 
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