• Question: What's at the bottom of the ocean?

    Asked by St Cyres Wales to Ceri, Marikka, Matt, Rob, Sally on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Sally Cutler

      Sally Cutler answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Some pretty amazing microbes! Not sure what else.

    • Photo: Matt Bilton

      Matt Bilton answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      The sea floor!

    • Photo: Ceri Dare

      Ceri Dare answered on 15 Nov 2014:

      Bacteria and similar micro-organisms live near ‘hydrothermal vents’, where hot water and chemicals come from deep within the earth. Several weird and wonderful sea creatures live deep in the oceans and eat the bacteria. Read more here: http://www.venturedeepocean.org/life/microbes.php
      and here: http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/hottopics/bacteria.html

    • Photo: Robert Hampson

      Robert Hampson answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      It’s salt water all the way to the bottom, then there’s rock the same as on land.

      The deeper you go, the weirder the animal life gets…

    • Photo: Marikka Beecroft

      Marikka Beecroft answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      I don’t know. I saw a documentary once where there were tonnes of crabs on the sea floor. Also A pool of fresh water with microbes living in there. WAtch Blue planet. BBC had it on and David Attenborough narrated!

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