Source: Hakai Magazine
Author: Judith Lavoie
In the northeast Pacific, the upper 3,000 meters of water has lost 15 percent of its oxygen over the past 60 years, and the top 500 meters is simultaneously becoming more acidic at an unprecedented rate, a study by Fisheries and Oceans Canada scientists has found.
Continue reading British Columbia’s Seamounts Are Becoming Uninhabitable
Source: Nerdist
Author: Matthew Hart
A group of deep-sea biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has come out with a “Top 10” list of oceanic creatures. In the video below, the biologists describe the creatures, which, of course, all look like aliens. Although many of them are also breathtakingly beautiful.
Continue reading Deep-Sea Biologists Reveal Their 10 Favorite Creatures
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Author: Abigail Eisenstadt
In the fifteen years since it was first caught on camera, the giant squid has revealed many of its secrets. Researchers now know how it swims, some of its migration patterns and even how it might hunt. But they don’t know a lot about the ocean depths where it lives.
Continue reading How Scientists Learn What Lives in the Deep Ocean
Source: Gizmodo Earther
The Great Barrier Reef has been having a rough year. Warm waters have led to record coral bleaching this year and could hasten the reef’s die-off. But while surface corals are suffering, nearly a mile beneath the surface, deep-sea corals near the Great Barrier Reef are thriving.
Source: The Guardian
Author: Laura Trethewey
On a wall facing Vicki Ferrini’s desk hangs a giant map of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. At 6ft by 8ft, it’s the largest size available on the printer at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, where she works as a geoinformatics researcher. “I of course want it even bigger,” she says.
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Source: ScienceDaily
Explosive volcanic eruptions are possible deep down in the sea — although the water masses exert enormous pressure there. An international team reports in the journal Nature Geoscience how this can happen.
Author: Dharna Noor
Source: Gizmodo Earther
In the depths of the water just west of Greenland, scientists have discovered a previously unknown coral garden. They described the ecosystem in a new study published in Frontiers in Marine Science on Monday.
Continue reading Scientists Found a Vast, Deep Sea Coral Garden off Greenland’s Coast
Source: New York Times
Author: William J Broad
What lies off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, in the Coral Sea? The region was mostly unexplored and uncharted until a recent expedition searched its dark waters, uncovering an abundance of life, weird geologic features and spectacular deep corals. The deepest forays reached down more than a mile.
Source: LiveScience
Author: Yasemin Saplakoglu
Explorers have captured video of the deepest-known octopus, revealing an adorably pudgy Dumbo octopus some 4.3 miles (6,957 meters) beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean swimming in what is called the hadal zone, where not even a drop of sunlight can penetrate.
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Source: My Modern Met
Author: Jessica Stewart
Thanks to the Schmidt Ocean Institute, we’re getting a whole new perspective on life in the deep sea. After exploring the depths of the Indian Sea, they’ve released 4K footage of the Ningaloo Canyons. Located off the western coast of Australia, this previously unvisited area is the location of the institute’s latest expeditions—and the findings are incredible.
The canyons were visited by the ROV Sebastian, an underwater remotely operated vehicle which can go as far as 14,750 feet underwater. This far deeper than any human could ever dive, and the ROV can also stay at that depth far longer than any human-operated vehicle. Thanks to this technology, we’re able to stay on land and see the wonders far below the sea.
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