Neuer Rekord: 5000m tiefe Black Smoker gefunden

Black Smoker sind hydrothermale Quellen am Meeresgrund, aus denen oft mehrere hundert Grad heißes Wasser nach oben steigt. Sie sind besonders interessant für Biologen, da an diesen Stellen oft eine völlig einzigartige Flora und Fauna herrscht.

Jetzt konnten Forscher neue Black Smoker in der Karibik messen und filmen - in wahnsinniger Tiefe!

"It was like wandering across the surface of another world," says Bramley Murton, a geologist at the National Oceanographic Centre (NOC) in Southampton, UK, who piloted the Hy-Bis underwater vehicle around these deep volcanic vents and filmed them for the first time.

"The rainbow hues of the mineral spires and the fluorescent blues of the microbial mats covering them were like nothing I had ever seen before," Murton says.

(via New Scientist)