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Ocean Survey Reveals World of Deep-Sea Creatures

by Pat Coate | May 12, 2006

Sargasso Sea, near the Bermuda Triangle - This heart-shaped jellyfish, called a comb jelly, was among thousands of tiny creatures captured in an expedition conducted last month to collect and catalog the world's deep-sea denizens.

The 20-day mission, sponsored by the international research group Census of Marine Life, brought 28 leading marine experts from 14 countries together in the Sargasso Sea, an area of the North Atlantic near the Bermuda Triangle.

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