The Face of the Deep

Alexander Agassi observed that, quote, they are sponges with a long stem ending in ramifying roots, some deeply in the mud. The stem has nodes with four to six club like appendages. They evidently cover like bushes, extensive tracts of the bottom. Clateral visa, a particularly dramatic one, which sometimes resembles a space age microwave antenna, was not uncommon in the early dredge halls of challenger and Blake.