Deep Earth Academy Stories From The Sea Floor

But despite their name these plains are not uniformly flat.

Deep earth academy stories from the sea floor. Broadcast 1998 a curious feature of our planet s surface is that it has two distinct levels. It is completely dark just above freezing cold and the pressure is crushing. I m a marine biologist and a retired deep sea diver. Food is very scarce in this huge region yet a great diversity of animals have adapted to.

At depths of over 10 000 feet and covering 70 of the ocean floor abyssal plains are the largest habitat on earth. Sunlight does not penetrate to the sea floor making these deep dark ecosystems less productive than those along the continental shelf. Planet earth the mystery of the deep the legendary deep sea shark. The chop of the furious winter sea that had been torturing us sent a wave just as jeremy was finishing up the steaks.

Deep earth academy takes wirecast to the bottom of the sea for educational webcasts the background deep beneath the surface of the world s oceans is an environment easily as foreign as the moon and almost as hard to get to. Deep earth academy s mission is to raise awareness about ocean drilling science and its central role in our understanding of the earth s past present and future teach science content and process and inspire careers in science technology engineering and math. Teaching for science learning for life. The dry land on the continents on average a few hundred metres above sea level and the ocean floor making up two thirds of the earth s surface several kilometres below sea level.

I know this will sound unusual but i have a story to tell you and you need to read it. 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. 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. The sub seafloor is one of the few frontiers left on earth that remains largely unstudied.