More Life There
And although life is often harsh just above waves, there are a plethora of bizarre and unearthly sea creatures below. “Within a square yard there is more life in the deep of the Antarctic than there is in the reefs of the Barrier Reef of Australia,” Mark Taylor told LADbible. He was a member of the dive team that was being investigated. There are many valid reasons for this, as it turns out.
More Life There
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Thick Marine Snow
For one thing, the marine snow they discovered below the the Antarctic waves was “thicker than [he’s] seen anywhere else in the world’s oceans.” These are the terms of University of Southampton’s Dr. Jon Copley. But, precisely, what is marine snow? What is the significance of this to the seafloor?
Thick Marine Snow
