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What Is Found
In Deep Water?

AVA CARMEL

SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

"In Genesis it is written that the
first task God gave to man was
to name the animals. As a ma-
rine biologist, one of my tasks is
to provide suitable names for
newly discovered sea creatures."
Dr. Bella Galil works at the
National Institute of Oceanog-
raphy in Haifa, which is part of
Israel Oceanographic and Lim-
nological Research, a nonprofit
governmental corporation es-
tablished in 1967 with the aim
of generating knowledge and
technology for wise use of Israel's
marine and freshwater re-
sources.

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The Haifa Institute juts right
out into the Mediterranean Sea,
the waters of which are the focus
of its research. Dr. Galil explains
that modern oceanographic re-
search began with the founding
of marine stations in Naples and
Monaco, in the 19th century.
Most studies of the Mediter-
ranean have focused on its west-
em half The eastern section, the
Levantine Basin or Levant,
which borders on Crete, Turkey,
Syria, Lebanon, Israel and
Egypt, has barely been explored,
especially its deeper waters.
For the past four years, Dr.
Galil has led 12 cruises to sites
west of the Israeli coast, to gath-
er specimens in water over 1,500
meters deep. She explains that
at such great depths the envi-
ronment is unusually harsh.
Pressure is 150 times what it is
at sea level; there is almost total
darkness and very little nour-
ishment filters down. Thus, this
is the poorest part of the Mediter-
ranean both in the number of
species and number of speci-
mens.
The team, which used a trawl
to gather its samples, collected
40 deep-sea species, of which 11
are new records for the Levant
Basin (i.e., recorded there for the
first time) and 16 more are new
records for the Israeli coastal re-
gion. They were also fortunate
enough to find a new endemic
species, i.e., one found only in
this region. It is a blind crus-
tacean, which was named
Lebantocaris Hornungae, after
a veteran chemist at the insti-
tute. Ili

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