Brine pool - Wikipedia
A brine pool, sometimes called an underwater lake, deepwater or brine lake, is a volume of brine collected in a seafloor depression. These pools are dense bodies of water that have a salinity that is typically three to eight times greater than the surrounding ocean.
Discovering an Underwater Lake 6000 Feet Deep - YouTube
On its maiden mission to the Red Sea, #OceanXplorer made a surprising discovery: a brine pool, over 1700 meters below the surface, teeming with otherworldly life—extremophiles, to be precise,...
The Depths Below - Lakes in an Ocean | Ocean Today
These underwater lakes and rivers can be as small as a few feet across or as large as a few miles long. They're even very similar to lakes and rivers on land, with shorelines, surfaces – even waves! And there are even some creatures that enjoy hanging out by …
Water lake at the deep sea bottom - by Mike deGruy BBC - YouTube
Filming in the Gulf of Mexico by Mike deGruy - BBC - "The Blue Planet". Discovering a water-lake under the water - The submarine bounce up when attemting to dive through it, and there...
Planet Earth: Blue Planet II | Brine Pool | Coming to BBC ... - YouTube
2017年11月3日 · Viewers will encounter surprising new landscapes such as methane volcanos which erupt in the Gulf of Mexico, creating underwater lakes of poisonous brine; and the so-called “Boiling Sea”...
A Lake at the Bottom of the Ocean - Atlas Obscura
2009年10月8日 · Imagine discovering a lake whose waves gently lap at its shores, leaving high water marks and ripples in the nearby sand. Now imagine the very same scene, located more than 650 feet below the...
Eerie Underwater Lake - Smithsonian Ocean
Brine pools look eerily like an underwater lake. The saltiness of the water makes a visible layer between the ocean water.
Brine Pools: The Underwater Lakes of Despair | Amusing Planet
2018年11月5日 · These saline lakes of dense water on the seafloor has distinctive shorelines and surfaces, and they are called brine pools. They are common in the Gulf of Mexico, where the smallest ones are not much bigger than a puddle, measuring just one meter across, but the biggest pools are up to 20 km long.
Undersea Lakes - Lyda Harris, PhD
Underwater lake (brine pool) PC: tarafdari.com; At the bottom of the sea floor water seeps up through a thick later of salt, creating REALLY salty dense water. The water dissolves the salt layer, forming depressions aka basins that form lakes. Really salty water (brine) form lakes and rivers due to high density and being heavier than seawater ...
Scientists Discover Incredibly Salty Underwater Lakes On the …
2022年7月29日 · Scientists have discovered rare brine pools on the floor of the Red Sea. These salty “underwater lakes” hold clues about how the world’s oceans formed millions of years ago and could shed light on the origins of life on Earth and beyond, according to a new study.