Dark Ocean Floor

Although some sea creatures depend on light to live others can do without it.

Dark ocean floor.

In 1977 scientists used submersible vehicles to explore the seabed and discovered vents gushing dark plumes of superhot mineral rich water. Bathypelagic zone midnight zone the bathypelagic layer is found between 3 281 feet and 12 124 feet just above the abyss. Your instinct was right. R lyeh is a fictional lost city that was first documented in the h.

At depths of over 10 000 feet and covering 70 of the ocean floor abyssal plains are the largest habitat on earth. Join jessi and squeaks and learn all about the super cool super. Scuba divers can explore only to about 40 meters while most submarines dive only to about 500 meters. R lyeh is a sunken city in the south pacific and the prison of the entity called cthulhu.

The deep ocean is dark very cold and has tremendous pressure from the overlying water. But despite their name these plains are not uniformly flat. Only a small fraction of the seafloor has ever been mapped at high resolution. This layer is also called the midnight or the dark zone.

Water entering cracks in the crust is heated by magma and mixed with mineral sulphides then belched forth in dark clouds. These black smokers are caused by volcanic activity at mid ocean ridges. Detailed maps require expensive specially equipped boats. Deep in the pacific ocean near china is the mariana trench the deepest part of the ocean.

The ocean is divided into three zones based on depth and light level. Lovecraft short story the call of cthulhu first published in weird tales in june 1928. Over 75 of the ocean floor lies can be found within this zone with the continental rise starting here. Scientific research submersibles have explored the ocean s deepest trenches.

The lines you have pointed out are actually mapping anomalies. Until the development of sonar we knew very little about the ocean floor. Sunlight entering the water may travel about 1 000 meters 3 280 feet into the ocean under the right conditions but there is rarely any significant light beyond 200 meters 656 feet.