Exploring the ocean is much more difficult than exploring space. The ocean covers an area of approximately 360 million square kilometers, or 71% of the Earth's surface area. It can be said that humans have only explored. less than 5% of the seabed, and the remaining 95% of the world is unknown.
Let me take you diving together to see what's 10,000 meters under the sea?
Depth 3 meters: This is the depth at which ordinary people swim.
30 meters under the sea: this is where coral reefs and underwater plants grow.
100 meters under the sea: The toad fish, nicknamed “foie gras of the sea”, waits here for its prey to come to you. The male fish is only one tenth of the female fish. He spends his whole life just to get close to a rich woman.
The above is the photosynthesis zone. In this area, most of the visible sunlight can shineler and phytoplankton on the ocean surface live here.
The middle zone between 200 meters and 1,000 meters under the sea is where the sun is almost not exposed, the oxygen content is very low and the sea water temperature has passed from 20 degrees Celsius to 4 degrees Celsius.
300 meters under the sea: there you can meet the largest existing crustacean, the giant crab, with legs 4 meters long.
The water pressure here is equivalent to a 540-pound fat man dancing on every inch of your skin.
500 meters under the sea: the deepest point where the blue whale lives. Its tongue is as heavy as an elephant and its blood vessels are so wide that people can swim in it.
600 meters under the sea: the large-finned anus looks up with a pair of tube-shaped eyes pointing upwards, searching for delicious little fish swimming from above. Besides, his head is transparent.
In the deep zone of 1,000 to 4,000 meters under the sea, almost all energy sources are cut off. The temperature is constant at around 4 degrees Celsius, although the water pressure is already huge, a big number. organisms still survive. The only light visible here is produced by luminescent organisms.
Be careful, the following deep-sea fish seem very random: Black's Hognose Chimaera, Giant Silver Axfish, etc.
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1,300 meters: there lives the giant European shark. Its mouth and jaws are separated. When you open your mouth to eat, the teeth fly out to bite things. . Live, then take it back.
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2200 meters: You can see sperm whales and giant squid fighting fiercely.
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2,800 meters: The Dumbo octopus is a rare deep-sea fish with a cute appearance. Its fins look likeelephant ears.
3,000 meters deep: the pressure is 3,000 times that of the ground and it takes several months for the marine snow to fall. Marine snow is a viscous substance synthesized by protists and bacteria living in surface seawater.
3100 meters under the sea: giant squid can appear and disappear.
3,750 meters under the sea: this is the depth at which the Titanic sank.
3,800 meters under the sea: this is the average depth of the world's oceans.
What is the depth between 4,000 meters and 6,000 meters under the sea? The abyssal zone? It is not only dark, but also very cold. The water temperature is close to freezing. Coupled with the terrible pressure, there are few living things.
All living creatures are invertebrates, and many fish have degenerated to the point of blindness, relying only on their tactile organs instead oftheir visual organs, such as sea cucumbers, tripod fish, jellyfish, etc.
5,000 meters under the sea: There is a lack of food here, so the fangtooth fish that stay here are not picky about food and eat everything they see. Food comes mainly from the oceans of the previous layers.
5900 meters under the sea: Patrick lives here.
The 6,000 to more than 10,000 meters under the sea constitute the “deep water zone”. Generally, these deep places can only be found in ocean trenches and underwater canyons, although the water pressure and temperature are here. unimaginable, there are still an unimaginable small number of places where vertebrates thrive.
7062 meters under the sea: the deepest diving record of Chinese Jiaolong in the Mariana Trench.
8,000 meters under the sea: the salmon that everyone eatsshe is here.
The seabed measures 11,034 meters and is called Mariana Deep. This is the deepest seafloor known to mankind, deep enough to accommodate Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.
At present, people's understanding of the depths of the seabed is far inferior to their understanding of space. If the level of science and technology improves, people can take a submersible to swim on the seabed 10,000 meters deep. , they will definitely be able to find out by then. More surprising creatures, it's nothing less than an exploration of the universe!