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Top 10 of 2025 | When NCCOS and partners wrapped up series of missions to restore mesophotic and deep benthic communities in the Gulf

seven men smile at camera on back deck of research vessel, gathered around three large yellow autonomous underwater vehiclesTop 10 of 2025 | NCCOS and partners wrapped up a series of missions aboard RV Expedition to advance restoration of mesophotic and deep benthic communities in the Gulf. The science team deployed three autonomous underwater vehicles (REMUS 600 and 620’s) to identify potential areas for deep coral restoration across the Mississippi-Alabama shelf and West Florida shelf.