Largest Known Coral Colony Discovered Near Solomon Islands [Video]

The largest known coral colony in the world has been found in the southwest Pacific, near the Solomon Islands.

Visible from space, the “mega coral” — a collection of tiny coral polyps forming one organism — could be over three centuries old, reported BBC News.

The giant coral colony was discovered by a National Geographic cinematographer while visiting remote areas of the Pacific to find out how they had been impacted by climate change.

“I went diving in a place where the map said there was a shipwreck and then I saw something,” diver and cinematographer Manu San Félix said, as BBC News reported.

San Félix called to his son Inigo, who was also his diving partner, and the two ventured further below the surface to survey the coral.

San Félix described catching sight of the coral as like seeing a “cathedral underwater.”

“It’s very emotional. I felt this huge respect for something that’s stayed …