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.

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. Bekijk earth story 02 the deep fbkanaal op dailymotion. I m a marine biologist and a retired deep sea diver. Planet earth the mystery of the deep the legendary deep sea shark.

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. 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. Teaching for science learning for life. 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.

I know this will sound unusual but i have a story to tell you and you need to read it. At depths of over 10 000 feet and covering 70 of the ocean floor abyssal plains are the largest habitat on earth. The chop of the furious winter sea that had been torturing us sent a wave just as jeremy was finishing up the steaks. Food is very scarce in this huge region yet a great diversity of animals have adapted to.

When i was a deep sea diver i heard something terrifying beneath the ocean floor while investigating an oil rig. 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. Sunlight does not penetrate to the sea floor making these deep dark ecosystems less productive than those along the continental shelf. Broadcast 1998 a curious feature of our planet s surface is that it has two distinct levels.

This is the deep sea floor. My name is peter wesker. It is completely dark just above freezing cold and the pressure is crushing.