Deep Earth Academy Stories From The Sea Floor

It is completely dark just above freezing cold and the pressure is crushing.

Deep earth academy stories from the sea floor.

My name is peter wesker. At depths of over 10 000 feet and covering 70 of the ocean floor abyssal plains are the largest habitat on earth. When i was a deep sea diver i heard something terrifying beneath the ocean floor while investigating an oil rig. Bekijk earth story 02 the deep fbkanaal op dailymotion.

Microbes revived from 101 5 million year old sediment cores gathered from deep beneath the sea floor under the pacific ocean are seen in an undated magnified image released by the japan agency for. Teaching for science learning for life. The sub seafloor is one of the few frontiers left on earth that remains largely unstudied. The chop of the furious winter sea that had been torturing us sent a wave just as jeremy was finishing up the steaks.

Planet earth the mystery of the deep the legendary deep sea shark. The sudden tilt of the galley and jeremy s lack of coordination led to the steak flying off of the flat top stove and onto the floor that was flecked with sludge fish scales and copenhagen tinged loogies. The arctic vents reach up as far as four stories from the seafloor and these so called chimneys are covered with white bacteria that love the minerals in the hot water. This is the deep sea floor.

But despite their name these plains are not uniformly flat. I know this will sound unusual but i have a story to tell you and you need to read it. I m a marine biologist and a retired deep sea diver. The vents occur where the tectonic plates that make up the ocean floor move apart at different rates and the water that pours out is rich in minerals as well as hot.

Broadcast 1998 a curious feature of our planet s surface is that it has two distinct levels. Food is very scarce in this huge region yet a great diversity of animals have adapted to. Sunlight does not penetrate to the sea floor making these deep dark ecosystems less productive than those along the continental shelf.