The Underwater Lakes That Shouldn’t Exist

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In 2020, a submersible from the Ocean-Xplorer research ship found something incredible lurking on the ocean floor. Among the deep sea tube worms, smoking hydrothermal vents, and salt-encrusted crabs, was an undisturbed, underwater… lake. Join us as we take a deep dive into the bizarre world of these deadly pools: their discovery, what we have learned, and what makes them some of the weirdest water bodies on Earth.

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03:00 What Did They Discover?
05:43 Underwater… Lake?
10:09 Bubbling Up From Below
13:03 Underwater…Waterfalls?
14:56 Can Anything Survive Here?
18:51 Scavenging Sea Creatures
22:08 Beginnings of Life on Earth
25:20 Extraterrestrial Brine Pools

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References:
“Anomalous Bottom Water in the Red Sea”, via nature.com https://bit.ly/hcharnock
“Anoxic, Hypersaline Basin in the Northern Gulf of Mexico”, via science.org https://bit.ly/GoMbrinepool
“Discovering a Brine Pool | Nautilus Live”, via youtube.com https://bit.ly/nautilusbrinepool
“Double Diffusion”, via sciencedirect.com https://bit.ly/doublediffusion
“Lakes Within Oceans”, via noaa.gov https://bit.ly/NOAAexplorer
“Microbiology of the Red Sea (and other) deep-sea anoxic brine lakes”, via wiley.com https://bit.ly/brinepoolmicrobiology
“Cold Seep Biodiversity”, via deepoceaneducation.org https://bit.ly/brinebiodiversity
“Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right”, via bbc.co.uk https://bit.ly/Darwinearlylife
“Brines and evaporites: analogs for Martian life”, via sciencedirect.com https://bit.ly/Martianbrines
“Signs of life could survive on solar system moons Enceladus and Europa”, via space.com https://bit.ly/enceladuseuropa

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Credits
Narrator: James Stewart
Producers: Alex McColgan, James Stewart
Writer: Will Bunker
Video Editor: Celal Kaçar
Animator: Peter Sheppard
Researcher: Edie Abrahams
Thumbnail Designer: Peter Sheppard
Channel Manager: Georgina Brenner
Creator: Alex McColgan

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