In the "undisturbed waters" off South East North Carolina. The topic today is worms. A Christmas Tree Worm, Spirobranchus sp. casts a glorious net on the wreck of the Normania. The colourful radioles provide for both respiration and collecting a meal. They are most often associated with tropical waters where they set their tubular calcium carbonate burrows into or upon the surface of various live, stoney corals. But in these waters they will fashion burrows on/in the thick, calcified layers of dead invertebrates that build upon artificial objects-in this case, the engine of a sunken wreck. The worm features two colourful crowns, each appx. 1.5-2 cm in diameter.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/xmas-tree.html

"I have heard about living at the centre. But what about living at the centre of the centre?"

Rumi