Our Changing World: Fiordland's black corals

Join Claire Concannon aboard the DOC research vessel Southern Winds.  

Claire is with a team from Victoria University of Wellington, led by Professor James Bell, studying Fiordland’s underwater life.  

By diving to take photographs and samples, and using remotely operated vehicles to video deeper depths, the researchers are building up a picture of what lives where, and how these animals are doing.  

One of the critters they are particularly interested in is Fiordland’s iconic, and protected, black coral. But as PhD candidate Amber Kirk explains, the name is a bit misleading…