Life Opens Its Way to Almost 10,000 Meters in the Depths of the Kamchatka Sea

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Prosperous communities of worms and molluscs have been discovered that derive their energy from chemical reactions at the bottom of deep pits in the north-west of the Pacific Ocean, just in the vicinity of the recent Kamchatka earthquake. The presence of these chemosynthetic ecosystems of worms and molluscs challenges the ancient assumptions about the potential of life in extreme depths and the complex carbon cycle in the ocean depths. Communiti…

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The seas surrounding the Kamchatka peninsula hide two of the deepest and longest marine pits on the planet. They are the orographic expression of the plate tectonic that is behind the powerful earthquake that just happened there, this Wednesday at the eastern end of Russia. A scientific mission has now discovered that they also house the deepest ecosystems of the Earth. The results of about thirty dives with a submersible, published this Wednesd…