No...it's not another terrible SciFy channel movie.
It's National Geographic's term for what some researchers found way out in the Solomon Islands of the Pacific ocean.
Tehy were out to measure a volcano named Kavachi, document about its chemical and biological processes and such. Nobody knows how often it actually erputs because it is underwater.
So they use cameras to deal with the heat and high-acidity of the water.
So the team strategically deployed their instruments—including disposable robots, underwater cameras, and National Geographic’s deep-sea Drop Cam—to get a broad look at the whole volcano, including what the bottom looks like. Their biggest surprise was that hammerheads and silky sharks showed up on their deep-sea Drop Cam footage—in numbers
Continued, with video, on the other side of the Great Orange Reef
“These large animals are living in what you have to assume is much hotter and much more acidic water, and they’re just hanging out,” Phillips says. “It makes you question what type of extreme environment these animals are adapted to. What sort of changes have they undergone? Are there only certain animals that can withstand it? It is so black and white when you see a human being not able to get anywhere near where these sharks are able to go.”
We can't go in there. We would burn from the heat and from the acidity, yet these large predators are described as just 'hanging out'.
I found this very intriguing due to my wondering about life being able to exist on other planets. (Out of left field, eh?) Here we have life forms familiar to us living in temperatures and acidity that we believe would kill most other life (if not cook it).
Here's video.
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