No evidence of damage to the soft tissue or skeletal integrity of mesophotic corals exposed to a 3D marine seismic survey

The authors acknowledge the financial support of Woodside Energy Ltd., operator of permit WA33P, on behalf of the Browse joint venture in the conduct of this research. We wish to thank the Master and crew of RV Solander and staff from ERM (Environmental Resources Management) for support during the field surveys. EC was supported by the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Offshore Floating Facilities which is funded by the Australian Research Council, Woodside Energy, Shell, Bureau Veritas and Lloyds Register (Grant No. IH140100012). We thank M. Hatch (Woodside) for providing comments on the draft of this manuscript.