#ocean floor

[tschasi]

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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[lastventura]

some abstract stuff on kid pix 4

[margotlovessally]

Mind if I pull you into a depth so deep you'll never return from it?

[transcendragon]

Deep Slumber - sometimes you just need to take a long nap at the bottom of the sea

My original art made in Procreate, image description in alt text

[scubahanknyc]

Finally finished my edit from Dauin. It’s called "Life on the Ocean Floor" and features some of the amazing life you find in the sand and rubble.

[thoughtlessarse]

How damaging is deep-sea mining? New landmark study sheds light

A five-year-long investigation into how deep-sea mining impacts biodiversity has finally been published.

Calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining have gotten louder as the results of a five-year-long investigation have been revealed. Scientists have analysed samples from the seafloor in the depths of the Pacific, both before and after an 80km area was driven over by ocean-mining machines. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, the UK’s Natural History Museum and National Oceanography Centre spent more than 160 days at sea, followed by three years in the lab to discover the extent of damage caused by the tracks. The study, which has been published in the science journal Nature, was funded by The Metal Company, a deep-sea mining giant aiming to become the first to conduct commercial mining on the ocean floor. Scientists say their findings have been carried out independently, and that the company was able to view the results before publication but was not allowed to alter them.

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[fangedbeau]

After seeing the trailer for the film Survive (2024), I have to wonder: is this a parody and the trailer just didn't convey that well enough?

Water doesn't work like that. Land masses and seas don't work like that. We're not supposed to take that seriously, are we?

The premise is intriguing. It's really the same as the Lovecraft story Dagon initially. But you'd have to either leave it unexplained or give a vaguely believable explanation. It doesn't even need to be more convincing than The Core. But having it remain unexplained might be the best option.

And worst of all: they have to deal with large deep ocean crabs, not with isopods! If this were a giant isopods film, I might try to ignore the physics of it in order to watch it. But not for crabs.