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This is a picture grabbed off of a video that was taken on a dive conducted by Fisheries and Oceans divers in November, 1992 in the same area that the Reef Ball reef is now located. This picture shows what the ocean floor looked like before the reef was constructed. The ecosystem supported only those plants and animals that could survive on the relatively flat sand/mud bottom