Taking the plunge! Romantic moment man proposes to his fiancée 10ft underwater on the seabed of a cove in Jamaica Kody Workman, 33, from Michigan, popped the question to Kelly Castille, 34 Loved-up couple were 10ft underwater in a picturesque cove in Negril, Jamaica Kelly couldn’t believe proposal and swum up to surface to ask: … Read more
Tiny microbes living underneath the seafloor have been found surviving on a fraction of the energy a human needs to live – setting a new lower energy limit for life. An international team of researchers led by Queen Mary University of London used data from the sub-seafloor to create a new global picture of the … Read more
A methane leak has been identified coming out of the Antarctic seabed, causing alarm among climate scientists and conservationists. Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas which traps almost 30 times more heat as the same amount of carbon dioxide. The stream of methane coming from 30ft below the surface and into the ocean is ‘incredibly … Read more
Ocean currents in the deep sea are creating microplastic ‘hotspots’ which host around 1.9 million tiny pieces of debris per square metre, scientists have revealed. US researchers say slow-moving currents near the bottom of the Mediterranean direct the flow of microplastics, creating plastic ‘hotpots’ in sediments of the deep sea. These currents also supply oxygen … Read more