Black Smoke(r) Discovered
Posted by Justin on April 12th, 2010
A remote controlled vehicle has discovered the deepest hydrothermal underwater vent on record 3.1 miles deep in the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean. Entitled “black smokers” the vents pump a black, iron sulfide compound into the ocean. The compound is hot enough to melt lead.
Locke is strangely unaffected by the news.