From: http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2010/04/100411214117-large.jpg
I was reading here, A team of British scientist has discovered the deepest under water volcano in the world. This underwater vent is about 3.1 miles or 5000 meters deep. This black smoker is located in the Cayman trough in the Caribbean. Scientists used an ROV from the British research vessel James Cook. Near the black smoker the scientists found spires of iron and copper ore rising from the sea floor. The water that erupts form the underwater volcano is hot enough to melt lead.
Near this under water volcano researchers are also finding abundant marine life. Scientists were stunned to find life in these areas. Up until this discovery scientists thought it was highly unlikely for creatures to live in such harsh environments. At this depth the pressure is over 500 times the atmospheric pressure. Because of this discovery scientists believe there could be life on other planets.
Do you think there is life on other planets?
What are some of the animals that live down there?
B9B a 60 mile by 18 mile iceberg broke off of Antarctica in 1987 and got grounded for about 18 years. Recently it got ungrounded, and on February 12 or 13 of 2010 rammed into Mertz Glacier, also in Antarctica. After the tide had brought B9B back and forth ramming the Mertz Glacier for 7 or 8 days, a 48 mile by 24 mile chunk broke off. These 2 huge bergs are now drifting down the Antarctic coast toward the Adelie Depression, which is one of the major sights for the worlds major sights for deep water circulation.
Scientists are concerned that the future position of these two icebergs will have a major impact on global circulation. Scientists will start by studying the local ocean currents and its effect on the biodiversity of the region.
What will happen to the world if something happens to the worlds currents?
What animals will be effected?
From: http://outreach.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ChileTsunami_1.gif
On February 27, 2010 at 06:34:14 A.M. (Chile time) there was a 8.8 magnitude earthquake offshore Maule, Chile. This area of Chile is known for its big earthquakes. There have been many vary large earthquakes 7.0 magnitude and larger in the last 100 or so years. The most famous of which, the 9.5 magnitude earthquake in 1960, killing about 1600 people with its deadly tsunamis. The earthquake on February 27 was predicted to generate a tsunami wave that could across the Pacifica Ocean hitting as far as Alaska.
The waves were way smaller that scientists had expected. The waves were only a few centimeters tall in Australia and Hawaii. Swimmers and boaters were still warned not to go out because of the strong currents made by the earthquakes could easily swipe you away.
Will there be more earthquakes?
Will the next one actually reach Alaska?
The article I read was about octopuses playing with toys. The scientists gave the octopuses 3 toys to play with. The 3 toys they gave them were a pair of pliers, a woven ball, and a cow with 3 things hanging off of it. They gave the toys to them several times a day and at least 2 hours apart from each other. They measured the amount of time they played with the toys and how many times they played with them.
In this study they found out that octopuses like the cow the most of the 3 toys. Through this study and other ones like it they found out that octopuses like toys with many moving parts and parts linked to other moving parts.
More than 2,000 scientists from 80 countries are all working together to try to discover and catalog as many of the oceans’ species as they can find. Although the process is slow and costly they are working together to get it done. So far in this study they have recorded 5,600 new species plus the 230,000 already known. 17,650 species living are living below a death of 656 feet, the depth that sunlight no longer reaches at all. The scientists say they have found 5,722 species living in depths deeper than 3,280 feet.
Up until recently the deep sea was considered a desert but now they know there are close to 20,000 organisms living there. Scientists hope to find several thousand more creatures by October 2010 when the project is over. Scientists estimate that there close to 1 million organisms still undiscovered. Once the project is complete, they plan is to publish three books, a popular survey of sea life, a second book with chapters for each working group and a third focusing on biodiversity.
I wonder what some of the crazy creatures they have found are.
NOAA’s Fisheries Services were in the middle of a research project last July in the Gulf of Mexico when they caught a giant squid. This was only the second recorded giant squid in that area. The first one was found floating dead on the Mississippi River delta in 1954. This squid was caught on July 30 2009 during a 60-day scientific study off the coast of Louisiana.
NOAA’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center and the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service were working together on the NOSAA Research Vessel Gordon Gunter studying the diversity of sperm whale prey. They were trawling at a depth of more than 1500 feet when they caught the giant squid.
The squid was preserved and shipped off to Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum for Natural History to have for further studying. The squid is over 19 ½ feet long and weighs about 103 pounds.
Some things i was still wondering after I read this article is how many giant squid have they found in the world, and how many live squid have they found?
I got my info from here http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=97518210064
