Hacker News with Generative AI: Deep Sea

First confirmed footage of a colossal squid captured (rnz.co.nz)
The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A century later, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of this species in its natural habitat - a 30cm juvenile, at a depth of 600 metres near the South Sandwich Islands.
Marine Biology, Deep Sea, Squid, Wildlife
37 points by ghewgill 10 days ago | 0 comments
China Discloses Powerful Deep-Sea Cable Cutter (yahoo.com)
China revealed for the first time that it has developed a compact deep-sea cable cutting device that is powerful enough to severe communication lines, the South China Morning Post reported.
China, Deep Sea, Technology, Military, Cables
6 points by ilamont 34 days ago | 2 comments
Tubeworms live around deep-sea vents (economist.com)
HYDROTHERMAL VENTS are the planet’s exhaust pipes. Kilometres below the ocean surface, they relentlessly belch out searing hot water rife with harsh chemicals from beneath Earth’s crust. When they were first discovered in 1977, nobody expected these inhospitable sites to bear signs of life. And yet, thriving alongside these vents were colonies of tubeworms, mussels and clams entirely new to science. It is hard to think of an environment that could be more hostile.
Marine Biology, Deep Sea, Science, Hydrothermal Vents
83 points by marban 191 days ago | 56 comments
The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea (quantamagazine.org)
The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark and under extreme pressure. It is not a place suited to the physiology of us surface dwellers: At the deepest point, the pressure of 36,200 feet of seawater is greater than the weight of an elephant on every square inch of your body. Yet Earth’s deepest places are home to life uniquely suited to these challenging conditions.
Science, Biology, Marine Biology, Deep Sea
88 points by Brajeshwar 227 days ago | 12 comments