#ocean trench

[eddieintheocean]

I need to be compressed in an ocean trench so fucking badly

[brinaarcadia]

This facility hangs over an ocean trench, Delta. The Family has activated timed charges within its foundations. Surrender before detonation, or we shall fall and be crushed in the abyss below.

[marinememes]

Happy World Oceans Day! Reblog to be crushed by the unimaginable weight of the Mariana Trench!

[utilitycaster]

Travis: Chetney is a shallower character who should probably be dead by now, which is obviously why I wrote a massive timeline lore document mid-campaign; here is the list of significant character creation questions I have been continuously pondering

[scramble-crossing]

Being in the twewy fandom while knowing nothing about Kingdom Hearts is such a bizarre experience because no one you follow is ever just a casual kh fan. They're all in the fuckin trenches crawling out every two weeks to string together some of the most incomprehensible posts to ever grace mankind's dashboard like wtf is a Baldr. Stairs? There's some bald old man named Xanax or whatever the fuck and maybe he's kissable? Every now and again someone will make a post with a really heavy emotional tone like "Omg when Glup Shitto went darkheart and Scrimbly Jim had to nort him 😭😭" and then the image below it looks like it came from a gatchalife youtube sketch. I'm glad you're all having fun I just desperately wish I understood what you're talking about like even a little bit.

[lorethebookworm]

Ah yes my favorite musical epic , or as I like to call it "the musical that no matter how perfectly you know the songs, each time you listen you'll find something new to cry about"

[respect-the-locals]

🐙 Daily Cephalopod Fact: 🐙

Dumbo Octopus: The name "dumbo" originates from their resemblance to the title character of Disney's 1941 film Dumbo, having two prominent ear-like fins which extend from the mantle above each eye. Dumbo octopuses are the deepest living octopuses known, with some specimens captured or observed at hadal depths (20,000 to 36,000 ft) below sea level.

[beakers-and-telescopes]

New Deep Ocean Virus Discovered

Life on Earth can be found even in the harshest of environments.  But wherever there is life, you can find regulators of that life- and by that, I mean viruses.  A group of researchers at the Ocean University of China have isolated a new virus from sediment collected from the Mariana Trench, some 8,900 meters below sea level.  This is the deepest discovered virus ever.

The virus in question is a bacteriophage- one that infects and replicates inside bacteria.  Bacteriophages are thought to be the most abundant life forms on the planet (that is, if you even consider them to be alive.  But that’s for a whole other post).  This bacteriophage infects bacteria in the phylum Halomonas, which can be found in deep sea sediments or in hydrothermal vents (Fun fact: one member of this phylum, Halomonas titanicae, was isolated from the ruins of the titanic, and helps to decompose materials such as shipwrecks on the seafloor).  

When the researchers analyzed this new bacteriophage, they realized that it is part of an entirely unknown viral family that has been lurking in the depths of the ocean.  Now, they will investigate the molecular machinery that defines interactions between deep sea viruses and their hosts, as well as continuing to look for new viruses in the most extreme of environments.

[willfullwanderer]

wonder who this is!

[jessicas-pi]

mersoka tano

(click for better quality)

[fanatic564]

Au where instead of an astronaut Danny wants to be a marine biologist

[oceaniastuff]

To-Sua Ocean Trench, Lotofaga, Samoa: To-Sua Ocean Trench is a stunning natural swimming hole located in the village of Lotofaga in Samoa. This unique geological formation is essentially a giant sinkhole, surrounded by lush greenery and connected to the ocean through an underwater cave system... . Lotofaga is a village on the south coast of Upolu island in Samoa. Wikipedia

[an-actual-floof]

the creatures of the Mariana Trench might be a mystery to YOU. Not me tho, we have brunch on Tuesdays

[covenawhite66]

Dulcibella camanchaca a 4cm crustacean predator that lives 7,902 meters below sea level

[thatgayoctopus]

Me when having a human body implies the existence of gender / sex so the things that give me gender envy are distinctly inhuman

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Throwback Thursday: Harry Hess and Seafloor Spreading.

This is Harry Hammond Hess. He was the man who came up with an idea to answer Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift question: how did it happen?

He served in the US Navy where he became intrigued by the geology of the seafloor. Essentially, he noticed that the seafloor was shallower in the middle than along the edges. He identified mid-ocean ridges,

and deep ocean trenches.

He said that new crust was made at the mid-ocean ridges as magma oozed up out of the vents and onto the ocean floor. He noted that oceanic crust was youngest near the mid-ocean ridge and older further away. He also noted that both sides of the ridge were symmetrical.

He said that the trenches were where the ocean floor was destroyed and recycled, subsiding beneath the surface and sinking into the mantle to be melted back into magma.

Tune in tomorrow for a look at an animal made famous because it died due to a volcanic eruption of the Yellowstone hotspot. (And tune in next Thursday to learn about some other scientists who aided Henry Hess in his seafloor spreading theory).