First-of-Its-Kind Footage Captures Bizarre Sea Creatures Flourishing in Extreme Depths of the Ocean

First-of-its-kind footage captures bizarre sea creatures flourishing in extreme depths of the ocean

Scientists have filmed odd communities of life flourishing deeper in the ocean than ever before. The chemosynthesis-based life-forms get their energy from chemical reactions, powered by gases seeping out of faults on the seafloor.

Deep Sea Submersible Discovers Organisms Flourishing in Record Breaking Depths - NYCTastemakers

A recent discovery was made in the deep ocean as of recently: a teeming ecosystem of organisms in one of the deepest reaches of the ocean. A recent submersible expedition to the bottom of found astounding findings as ABC News described that “Researchers traveling along the Kuril–Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean […] The post Deep Sea Submersible Discovers Organisms Flourishing in Record Breaking Depths appeared first…

Bizarre New Creatures Discovered 30,000 Feet Under the Sea

The Titanic lies about 12,500 feet under the ocean. The pressure down there is so immense that even submersibles supposedly built for those conditions can, as we know, tragically fail. Now imagine taking a sub nearly three times deeper. Read more on E360 →

Submersible finds sea creatures thriving in deepest parts of ocean

NEW YORK — An underwater voyage has revealed a network of creatures thriving at the bottom of deep-sea ocean trenches.