Comments on: 16,000 Feet Under the Sea: Deepest Hydrothermal Vent Discovered http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/21/16000-feet-under-the-sea-deepest-hydrothermal-vent-discovered/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Tue, 22 May 2012 06:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris the Canadian http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/21/16000-feet-under-the-sea-deepest-hydrothermal-vent-discovered/comment-page-1/#comment-222799 Chris the Canadian Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:29:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17814#comment-222799 Those troughs are nto as deep as these newly discovered vents. 2000 feet deeper is a lot deeper. Those troughs are nto as deep as these newly discovered vents. 2000 feet deeper is a lot deeper.

]]> By: Bob Jones http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/21/16000-feet-under-the-sea-deepest-hydrothermal-vent-discovered/comment-page-1/#comment-222468 Bob Jones Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:00:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17814#comment-222468 "they hope to one day send vehicles further into the depths–but that will require upgraded vehicles that can maneuver at such extreme depths." Hasn't that already been done? There are pictures and video of the world's deepest vents, in the Cayman Trough, taken by a UK-led expedition earlier this year: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/04/13/undersea.volcanic.vents/index.html “they hope to one day send vehicles further into the depths–but that will require upgraded vehicles that can maneuver at such extreme depths.”

Hasn’t that already been done? There are pictures and video of the world’s deepest vents, in the Cayman Trough, taken by a UK-led expedition earlier this year:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/04/13/undersea.volcanic.vents/index.html

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