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National Geographic Magazine October 1996
Highlights From this Month's Issue
Deep in the Gulf of Mexico mussels crowd the submarine beaches of brine pools, and tube worms flourish—all without energy derived from the sun. Authors Ian R. MacDonald and Charles Fisher and artist C. Bruce Morser survey the creatures and the processes that sustain them.
 
DEEP SEA LIFE IMAGE
Like a spaceship on a strange planet, the Johnson-Sea-Link  submersible reaches for a sample of the mussels ringing a pool of brine on the seafloor. The profusion of life 2,000 feet (610 meters) below the surface astonished the scientists who discovered this inhospitable world in 1984.

Photographs by Jonathan Blair
 

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