Detecting strange fields in the deep sea

Ocean explorers have discovered a vast field deep in the ocean that extends from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean, receiving energy with only hot water and is rich in strange creatures and ore mines. value.

Hot air vent

The ocean floor heat vents were previously thought to be available only in places like the eastern Pacific, where lithosphere plates move quickly, creating volcanic activity, and thereby creating fields evaporate.

Now scientists have found heat vents in the Arctic, along the central Atlantic rocks and discovered a huge hot water column in the Indian Ocean.

" Until 20 years ago, these findings were in areas that were beyond exposure, " said ventilator expert Peter Rona at Rutgers University.

In other words, they are in areas where the seafloor is slower than in the eastern Pacific - where Rona discovered the famous black smoke vents in 1979. Then a hydrothermal area called TAG found with huge blocks of iron, copper, zinc and silver ore 3 km deep underwater along the central Atlantic rock range.

" It has changed the picture of global hot water currents worldwide ," Rona said.

One of the effects of hydrothermal fields is that they contribute a significant amount of chemicals to the ocean, as well as cooling the earth's lap, like a radiator in a vehicle.

To date, heat vents have generated 17 terawatts of energy, equivalent to half of the man-made energy. But with only 10% of global oceanic rocks being discovered, there will be many unknown hydrothermal fields.