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What strange lifeforms lurk off Orange County shores

Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean, but not far off the Laguna Beach coast, deep-water rockfish take shelter from the dark in the arms of a sea star. They're among thousands of images captured with the help of a robotic submarine as part of a survey of sea life up and down the California coast. James Lindholm, a fish ecologist and professor at CSU Monterey Bay, is leading the survey. – Orange County Register, Feb. 13, 2012