Gulf Coast Boating Diving Floridas Coast

Lets take a dive and check out the awesome Brain Coral! This is a fine specimen and a great dive to see it!

Brain Coral Under The Sea Diving Floridas east is a site to behold. Even in the semi limited vis in this phot, it is a wonder of the undersea adventures.

Being a collection of coral with characteristics of spherical corals, these brain coral are found in warmer waters and are a type of stony coral, called that mainly because these animals build a hard skeleton out of calcium carbonate. They use the minerals they get from the ocean water. Individual coral animals are called polyps. There may be one or twoo hundred polyps living on the surface of this pictured coral above.

These corals get their name from the grooves and canals from their surfaces that look like the ripples of the human brain. There's more than one kind of brain coral.Several species from two different families of corals share the name but all help build coral reefs.
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