Life around deep sea methane seeps 2

This video clip shows a community of cold seep organisms at a site in the Cook Strait, New Zealand. The footage was captured by researchers from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, US. Read more about the expedition on http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10653

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[Avalikia]

There's a lot of reasons. Every form of life we're used to usually gets energy from sources that can be traced back to sunlight, usually extracted by plants. Here you have an ecosystem that doesn't need sunlight to function, instead relying on bacteria that gets energy from the methane gas. This means many things. For example, it broadens our view of where life is possible, which increases the possibility of life on other planets, both alien life and if we were to colonize one in the future.

[raatow]

hypnotizing.. the silence crowns it.

[lostsou5555555]

@panamayogadivina if u look closely a phew fish



[panamayogadivina]

what is so sad is there is no life forms moving. no fish, no crabs, no nothing. so sad.

[poisonNova123]

puke ng dagat lalim

[NaaBegNoFriend]

thank the Creator I am human cuz the sea has nothing fun going on right now

[Dragonkrux]

look, if you're not interested why don't you leave it for those of us who ARE. This is real science and if you can't follow it's purpose why don't you save everyone the pain of reading your useless comment and pick up a book and LEARN.

[weeeeeedd]

Boring shit. Why would someone dedicate their life to this.

[madcows10]

My butt also seeps methane but you don't see me hootin n a hollerin playing videos of it on the interweb.

[apeppink]

The Challenger Deep (the deepest part of the Marianas Trench) was reached by the bathyscaph Treiste with two crewmen aboard quite a number of years ago.

[FieryFang]

boring....