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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Want to Be a #DeepSea Explorer? Don’t Worry, There’s Lots Left.
Humans have visually documented about 1,470 square miles, or a mere 0.001 percent, of the deep #seafloor, according to a new study. That’s a little larger than the size of Rhode Island.
Researchers collected more than 43,000 records of dives and assessed the photos and videos to determine how much of the bottom has been seen by humans.
nytimes.com/2025/05/07/climate
archive.is/20250507183754/http
#Ocean #Sea

The new study’s documentation begins with images made in the 1950s by the U.S. Navy submersible Trieste.
The New York Times · Want to Be a Deep Sea Explorer? Don’t Worry, There’s Lots Left.By Rebecca Dzombak
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

New bacterial genome announcement from our team:

Draft genome sequence of Desulfobacterota strain M19, a mesophilic sulfur-disproportionating bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/m

This new bacterium was found on a #DeepSea hydrothermal vent, 1663m deep under the Atlantic ocean surface. It can grow by both "eating" and "breathing" a single chemical—pure elemental sulfur.

#Bacteria#Microbes#Genomics
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Iris Luckhaus

“Some called it wicked, but she called it love. Unfortunately, her loves were rather short-lived.”

Today's #Mermay prompt, #Wicked, fits so well with my little Mermay's taste for sailors (which she happened to develop 2 years ago, around the prompt #Sailor) that I just couldn't resist...

irisluckhaus.de/mermay-wicked/

#mermay2025 #mermay2025day29 #mermay2025wicked #mermaid #goldfish #sailor #shipwreck #love #deepsea #thelittlemermaid #digitalart #huntress #procreateart @Curator

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Experts alarmed over Trump’s promotion of #deepsea #mining in international waters
Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained.
On April 24, President Trump signed an #executiveorder promoting #deepseamining in the US and international waters, touting the industry’s potential to boost the country’s economic growth and national security.
Thirty-three countries are also calling for a moratorium or outright ban on deep-sea mining.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Ars Technica · Experts alarmed over Trump’s promotion of deep-sea mining in international watersBy Inside Climate News
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Rare giant "shrimp" is more widespread than previously believed, new findings reveal phys.org/news/2025-05-rare-gia

The supergiant #amphipod Alicella gigantea may inhabit over half of the world’s oceans royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

"#Amphipods like A. gigantea are #shrimp-like #crustaceans known for their narrow frames and a signature hump-backed curl in their posture. They roam the #DeepSea, from the abyssal depths (3,000–6,000 m) to beyond hadal zones (>6,000 m)"

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

New species of octopus discovered in a deep-sea canyon csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2025

"The Carnarvon Flapjack #Octopus is a gelatinous #DeepSea octopus that grows to around 4 centimetres diameter... It's the 10th and latest #NewSpecies to be described from specimens collected during a 2022 voyage by RV Investigator... The #FlapjackOctopus is a deep-sea shape shifter with the ability to flatten its body to resemble a pancake—or flapjack—or to pull itself up to look like a tiny gelatinous umbrella."

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Adrianna Tan

This is my favorite exhibit at the aquarium: Into the Deep. It's special because it's also the reason why I now work at the aquarium.

I have a habit of listening to random podcasts on topics I don't know anything about, and somehow when I was job-searching last year I heard a lot of 'Monterey Bay Aquarium and MBARI and deep sea research' podcasts. With marine scientists and engineers who built the ships and tools etc.

I was like 'I want to work somewhere like that!" Looked it up, and there was a job for literally the thing that I do. At my onsite job interview, I touched a giant isopod, and I was like 'this is better than any other job I can get. I can touch a giant isopod everyday if I want.'

montereybayaquarium.org/storie

#Marine#Science#DeepSea
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

New Coral Gardens and Hydrothermal Vents Found in the Icy Depths of the Remote South Sandwich Islands schmidtocean.org/new-coral-gar

"recent #DeepSea expedition observed thriving polar ecosystems, discovered new #HydrothermalVents, coral gardens, and many suspected #NewSpecies... #SchmidtOceanInstitute’s RV #FalkorToo explored the #SouthSandwichIslands, including one of the coldest and most isolated submarine trenches on the planet, and also found evidence of explosive volcanism."

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

In 1979, A #DeepSea #Mining Experiment Carved Up The Seabed. 44 Years On, We're Finding Out Its Impacts
“The most striking observation is that the tracks made by the mining machine 44 years ago look almost as if they were made yesterday,” study author Dr Adrian Glover of the Natural History Museum, London, told IFLScience. “This was not unexpected in a way. We know that biological processes in the deep sea are quite slow.”
iflscience.com/in-1979-a-deep-
archive.ph/BZAZL

IFLScience · In 1979, A Deep-Sea Mining Experiment Carved Up The Seabed. 44 Years On, We're Finding Out Its ImpactsBy Rachael Funnell
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