Chinese scientists find 'seabed gardens' in Pacific

ABOARD KEXUE - Chinese scientists aboard research vessel Kexue (Science) photographed several "seabed gardens" with colorful corals and sponges on Tuesday in a seamount of the Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean.

The coral gardens were discovered by a remotely operated vehicle in the east ridge of the underwater mountain in the south of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on earth.

In the real time videos that the remotely operated vehicle transmitted, scientists first observed a seabed garden with a lot of corals, sponges and brittle stars at a depth of 880 meters and then found more in the following exploration.