Comment by ospray
8 hours ago
As someone who studied marine science this is right. Anything deep sea grows slowly, needs to conserves energy and is likely very old.
8 hours ago
As someone who studied marine science this is right. Anything deep sea grows slowly, needs to conserves energy and is likely very old.
Also there's comparatively little oxygen available and almost no currents to mechanically break up large masses of tar.
Out of all fossil fuel extraction methods, deep-sea drilling is the worst.
On the bright side it causes global warming
How much of the ocean is deep sea vs not? Slow recovery doesn’t mean it’s the worst until you normalize it. Rare shallow but short life populations might be significantly more delicate
It depends on where you want to count the start of the deep sea in terms of depth, but the answer is somewhere between "most of it" and "almost all of it." Most of what we're used to is in the top 100 or so meters of the ocean, a very thin layer on top of the rest of the sea.
Significantly below the thermocline and/or in anoxic zones.