pelagic

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The organisms include anemones and pelagic gooseneck barnacles.

From Washington Times

Amy Siuda, a biological oceanographer at Eckerd, had been planning to study the growth rates of pelagic sargassum, a kind of floating seaweed that has exploded in parts of the Caribbean.

From Science Magazine

The creatures then return to the deep pelagic zone, where they deposit that organic, carbon-rich material as waste.

From Scientific American

Birds swept to certain locations by storms are more often pelagic birds, which spend most of their time over the ocean.

From Washington Post

One of the worst wartime disasters at sea occurred on July 30, 1945, when pelagic sharks swarmed the site of the shipwrecked USS Indianapolis.

From Salon