IMAGE View of Cordell Bank looking towards the northeast. Horizontal scale is in kilometers. Shaded depth scale is in meters. The seamount continues into deeper water in the foreground. Cordell Bank lies just north of the Farallon Islands off San Francisco, and represents some of the finest and most difficult reef diving in California.
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An excellent book "An Underwater Island," by Robert Schmeider, documents the natural history of the seamount. Schmeider led the campaign to designate Cordell Bank a National Marine Sanctuary.