Oceans and Their Inhabitants

#101

Awesome in the correct word!

Flatpoint High · #102

I love Attenborough

#103

#104

Cool!

John Thomas8 · #105

This person posts a good story every day:

RTH10260 · #106

Nature's batteries at the bottom of the ocean!

Just Have a Think
28 Jul 2024

Polymetallic Nodules. Never heard of them? Well there are trillions of them on the deepest sea beds of our oceans. Mining companies want to scoop them all up for the valuable elements they contain, like manganese, cobalt and nickel. But new research has demonstrated that those metallic constituents are causing a reaction that creates oxygen in the total absence of sunlight or photosynthesis. So...is it really a good idea to remove them?

#107

Dunno if the same thing, but I read back in the 60's they were thinking of mining nodules in the ocean floor, I think for manganese, but maybe molybdenum. It was gonna be cheap to collect them and the market was high.

Then they realised that if they went ahead the supply would quickly outstrip demand (like within months), the market would crash and cause chaos for decades.

RTH10260 · #108

#109

I think someone had already posted the documentary about the oarfish, but here it is again. It's very interesting. A scientist in scuba gear was cleaning off equipment off the coast of France, and suddenly, there it was. I highly recommend a watch.