2019年1月6日 · 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 Research Institute’s Doc Ricketts.

2024年1月1日 · 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 the broad backing of the four major parties, including the opposition, and is expected to pass in a final vote on January 9. Green activists, scientists, fishermen and investors, as well as neighbors

2024年5月23日 · 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 over a peak. As we descend the …

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 hydrothermal vent fishes, a new free-living nematode, and a new species of golden coral have already been published. Describing another family is literally another level.

2023年12月11日 · The highest known pressure in the deep oceans coincides with the maximum known depth in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, the Challenger Deep. The actual maximum depth of Challenger Deep is disputed. The deepest reported measurement was by a Russian research vessel at 11,034 m. The International Hydrographic Organization adopted 10,924 in 1993,

2024年4月28日 · Mr. Terry Kerby, our submersible pilot, greeted each animal like an old friend (This was the Pisces V’s 889 th dive, after all). Barracks, rattails, Chaunax, Callogorgia, Corallium, Desmophyllym, Chimeras, Dories, Ophiuroids…I was taken aback by how normal these animals looked. The fish were not the deformed oddities I had come to expect.

2024年6月13日 · 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 photographs provided exclusively to WIRED by anonymous sources sheds new light on Titan’s development, from its initial design and manufacture through its first deep-sea operations.

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 painstakingly decorated with a cornucopia of deep-sea animals, equipment, and maps. Everything from giant squids to Alvin submersibles adorn the cups. I even

2023年12月28日 · The deep sea host a remarkably high diversity of life, a realm teeming with an astonishing array of species with a vast set of adaptations that allow them to survive in this inhospitable environment. However, the origins of this incredible biodiversity remain a compelling mystery. The fossil record hints at a trend of shallow origins

2024年1月8日 · 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 find employment in marine fisheries, where 80% of global trade is facilitated by sea routes, where 30% of the world’s oil is extracted offshore, and where sectors like wind energy, aquaculture, and mining are rapidly ...