Daily reports indicate the first grid being surveyed is quite turbid near the bottom, making camera work at 70m and beyond difficult or impossible. However they have encountered interesting coral and rubble fields on the shallower shoal plateau.  "I suspect the images that do come back are going to generally be a little like these, at least until we move into neap tides", says Lead Scientist Andrew Heyward.

Image: mushroom corals and coarse carbonate rubble on Oceanic Shoal plateau

Image credit:  Jamie Colquhoun and Marcus Stowar, AIMS