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A Journey to the Hottest Place on Earth: Hydrothermal Vents and the Resilient Pompeii Worm. I have only seen a hydrothermal vent once, during Dive 73 aboard the Monterey Bay Aquarium …
A Journey to the Hottest Place on Earth: Hydrothermal Vents and …
Jun 4, 2024 · I have only seen a hydrothermal vent once, during Dive 73 aboard the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s Doc Ricketts. Unlike many deep-sea biologists, I have …
A New Deep-Sea Family of Roly Polies
As I sit at my computer, not even a month into the new year, four new species of sponges from underwater volcanoes, three new species of gastrointestinal parasites (nematodes) from …
ocean | Deep Sea News
Mar 23, 2018 · Ocean science and conservation, like any human enterprise, is subject to its fair share of internal messiness from time to time. As someone whose expertise…
Norway Moves to Mine Deep Sea
Jan 1, 2024 · Earlier this year [2023], the [Norway] government suggested opening more than 280,000 square kilometers of the country's territorial waters to deep-sea mining. The plan has …
How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure
Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a rainbow of Sharpie colors. Each cup is …
Surviving Toxic Havens - Deep Sea News
The ROV Global Explorer reaches bottom at around 9:01 am, nearly 3.5 kilometers deep in the Gulf of Mexico.The 1.5-ton machine flies nimbly through a shallow valley before rising up and …
The Inside Story of the Titan Submersible | Deep Sea News
Jun 13, 2024 · A great bit of writing and journalism at Wired on the avoidable Titan submersible incident. "A trove of tens of thousands of internal OceanGate emails, documents, and …
Mapping the Human Wakeprint - Deep Sea News
Jan 8, 2024 · Despite the evident reliance of humanity on the vast global ocean—where a staggering 1 billion individuals rely on it as their primary food source, where 260 million people …
New Deep-Sea Cucumber Has 100 Feet
A new species of deep-sea cucumber has over 100 feet in alternating two or three rows. This means of course that when it plays the This Little Piggy nursery rhyme it needs to repeat it 25 …