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7 Unsolved Mysteries About the Deep Ocean

It’s amazing (and a little unsettling) how much we still don’t know about the deep sea. Join us as Hank Green takes you through seven unsolved mysteries about the deep ocean that will blow your mind!
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Sources:
The Ocean Floor
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/just-how-little-do-we-know-about-the-ocean-floor/
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-27/deep-sea-volcanoes-discovered-in-search-for-mh370/5774122
http://www.nature.com/news/gravity-map-uncovers-sea-floor-surprises-1.16048
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/346/6205/65
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/predicted/explore.HTML#sat_alt
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/01/14/gravity_map_of_the_ocean_floor_reveals_new_features.html

Beneath the Seafloor
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6246/420
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6246/376
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/its-going-pluto-and-seeing-mcdonalds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131208085304.htm

Brine Pools
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02mexico/background/brinepool/brinepool.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/playing-in-a-deep-sea-brine-pool-is-fun-as-long-as-you-re-an-rov-video/
http://www.nautiluslive.org/blog/2014/07/08/brine-pool-dive-overview
http://www.joyeresearchgroup.uga.edu/research/deep-sea-extreme-environments/cold-seeps/brine-seeps/brine-seep-microbial-observatory

Milky Seas
http://biolum.eemb.ucsb.edu/organism/milkysea.html
http://aem.asm.org/content/72/4/2295.full
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/content_images/07FA6.pdf
http://www.pnas.org/content/102/40/14181.full.pdf
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-19/sea-sparkles-put-on-sensational-light-show-in-southern-tasmania/6480996

Unidentified Sounds
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/tools/acoustics/acoustics.html
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/29/bloop-mystery-not-solved-sort-of
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/acoustics/
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/acoustics/sounds/upsweep.html
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/acoustics/sounds/bloop.html

The 52Hz Whale
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/acoustics/whales/sounds/sounds_52blue.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/science/21whal.html?_r=3
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/maybe-worlds-loneliest-whale-isnt-so-isolated-after-all-180955005/?no-ist
http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/2014/08/27/_52_blue_the_loneliest_whale_in_the_world.html

Abyssal Gigantism
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1012336823275
http://www.zmescience.com/science/biology/deep-sea-giant-creature/
https://universe-review.ca/R10-35-metabolic.htm
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/12/1995

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