The Deadliest Lake On Earth Is At The Bottom Of The Ocean
#deepsea #ocean #brinepool A perfectly round lake sits 3,300 feet below the Gulf of Mexico. It has a shoreline made of salt. Anything that swims into it dies in seconds. They call it the Jacuzzi of Despair. And it's not the only one. The ocean built itself a lake on its own floor — five times saltier than the sea above, loaded with methane and hydrogen sulfide, completely without oxygen. Crabs walk in. They don't walk out. Eels glide over the surface, their bodies seize, then they sink. The ocean watched, and the ocean did nothing. In this video: how a salt deposit from 200 million years ago grew a deadly lake at the bottom of the sea, why the halocline acts like a physical wall, the chemosynthetic mussels that thrive at the rim, and why the Red Sea's NEOM Pools sit a kilometer deeper than the Gulf's. Chapters 00:00 The shoreline at the bottom of the ocean 01:26 What you're actually looking at 03:47 How a lake ends up on the seafloor 05:42 The Jacuzzi of Despair 07:55 Why crabs walk in 10:19 But somehow, life 11:43 The Red Sea pools and beyond 12:43 The lake is waiting More drowned places: / @silentvillagelights Sources Nature Communications Earth & Environment (2022) "Discovery of the deep-sea NEOM Brine Pools" NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration cold-seep surveys E/V Nautilus 2014-2015 Gulf of Mexico expedition footage BBC Earth / Blue Planet II brine pool segment Stock footage courtesy of contributors via Pexels. Hit subscribe — there's more drowned places coming.
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