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Researchers are studying two seamounts in Cayman waters for the first time. - Photo: Submitted by CCMI

Cayman’s underwater mountains have remained uncharted — until now

Dotting Cayman's sea floor are a series of underwater mountains, known as seamounts, and yet, other than fishermen, not many people in the Cayman Islands know about them, and even fewer have visited.

Stony coral disease threatening rare pillar coral

Pillar coral, which is considered a vulnerable species, is at particular risk from stony coral tissue loss disease due to its rarity locally.

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