What's at the bottom of the ocean?

[Randy]

What's at the bottom of the ocean?

Ninety-five per cent of the ocean is unexplored. What's down there? In 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard travelled seven miles down, to the deepest part of the ocean, in search of answers. Their voyage pushed the boundaries of human endeavour but gave them only a glimpse of life on the seafloor. It's so difficult getting to the bottom of the ocean that for the most part we have to resort to sending unmanned vehicles as scouts. The discoveries we've made so far – from bizarre fish such as the barreleye, with its transparent head, to a potential treatment for Alzheimer's made by crustaceans – are a tiny fraction of the strange world hidden below the waves.

So, what do think we might unearth next? Is this worth investigating further?

 

[Nebulous]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoygy-8PTtU

Neat!

Definitely worth exploring, wonder what else is down there!

 

[Jazzy]

Here are 60-images of weird deep sea creatures.

I find this fascinating. Who knows what creature will be found next.

 

[DrLeftover]

'here be dragons'

 

[Jazzy]

'here be dragons'

What a cool and very detailed old map. Would love to have a framed copy of this for my library.

 

[Khalessi]

Aliens

 

[Nebulous]

Aliens

Thats probably what they'd look like

 

[DrLeftover]

When you come right down to it. 'We' as a species, know more about the surface of the sun than we do the bottom of the ocean.