A diving instructor from Taitung recently discovered a rare type of black coral off the coast of Green Island. Lin Ming-sheng was just over a hundred meters below the surface when he obtained footage of this astonishing find.
In this barren, underwater land, where there seems to be little color other than the blue sea and sandy white floor, a white, translucent coral is seen. Diving instructor Lin Ming-sheng discovered it when deep-sea diving off Mati Bridge.
Lin captured video of this moment because it was the first time he had ever seen this type of coral. The Academia Sinica has confirmed that it is a type of black coral never before seen in Taiwan.
Lin Ming-sheng
Diving Instructor
When I looked at it, I knew it was special.
Black coral, which gets its name from the black or dark brown color of its skeleton, is the oldest group of coral in the world. There are about 250 known species. The colony Lin found was 50 centimeters high and 30 centimeters wide. He did not take a specimen, so scientists do not know if it’s a known species or a newly discovered one.
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