Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 52 minutes ago
Think cemeteries and haunted houses are spooky? How about the deep sea, where sunlight will never reach? Despite the perpetual darkness, chilling temperatures, and bone-crushing pressure, many animals and coral eke out a ghostly existence on the seafloor– an entire ecosystem unknown to science until recent decades!
Feast your eyes on the “undead” as witnessed by #WHOI scientists and colleagues diving in #HOVAlvin and #ROVJason!
📹 courtesy of Dan Fornari, Anna Michel, Tim Shank © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Think cemeteries and haunted houses are spooky? How about the deep sea, where sunlight will never reach? Despite the perpetual darkness, chilling temperatures, and bone-crushing pressure, many animals and coral eke out a ghostly existence on the seafloor– an entire ecosystem unknown to science until recent decades!
Feast your eyes on the “undead” as witnessed by #WHOI scientists and colleagues diving in #HOVAlvin and #ROVJason!
📹 courtesy of Dan Fornari, Anna Michel, Tim Shank © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
