black smoker hydrothermal vents are on the ocean floor, from which often rises several hundred degrees hot water up. They are particularly interesting to biologists because at these points there is often a completely unique flora and fauna.
Now, researchers were able to measure film new black smokers in the Caribbean - in mad deep!
"It was like wandering across the surface of another world," says Bramley Murton, a geologist at the National Oceanographic Centre (NOC) in Southampton, UK, who piloted the Hy-up underwater vehicle around these deep volcanic vents and filmed them for the first time.
"The rainbow hues of the mineral Spires and the fluorescent blues of the microbial mats covering them were like nothing I had ever seen before, "Murton says.
(via New Scientist )
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