found it probable that the amount of seagrass carried out and sunk in deep water after hurricanes equalled the amount of material washed ashore, but presented no evidence for this suggestion. Menzies and Rowe(1969) figured the distribution of detrital turtle grass as the average number of blades per photograph at each of their camera stations off North Carolina(about 20 photos at each station); based on the data in their Figure 1A I have estimated the average numbers of blades per photo(covering 6.35 m1 bottom),
at depths ex- ceeding 1000 m as follows