Together, BOEM, USGS, and NOAA explored and mapped deep-sea coral, canyon, and gas seep ecosystems and examined fish distribution and relation to localized features. The team collected water, sediment, benthic faunal samples, and imagery of benthic habitats to increase knowledge of the U.S. continental margin geology, the types of communities found on the seafloor, and the mid-water communities that interact with those seafloor communities in unexplored areas offshore from Florida to North Carolina.