Thermal Vents Research Paper

In reviewing others posts I didn’t see anyone do a post on the suggested example of thermal vents so I thought I would take a look into it. The full term describing this amazing underwater creation is “hydrothermal vents.” Basically these vents are hot springs produced from underwater volcanoes, kind of like geysers that form on land. These vents form where two plates pull apart and lava covers the sea floor forming an entirely new floor than what was previously there. These vents were first discovered in 1977 near the Galapagos Islands, near the Galapagos Rift, by scientists diving in a submarine named Alvin. Alvin was a submarine used only for research and was operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. It was in Alvin they made the discovery of the steaming hot vents while diving at a depth of about 8000 feet. …show more content…
Some of those organisms were “red-tipped tube worms”, “ghostly fish”, and “shrimp with eyes on their backs”. These organisms thrived on the absence of sunlight, weird and surprisingly different from normal sea-creatures, if you could even call them that? These vents support these complex ecosystems of organisms that have adapted to the extremely high temperatures of the water. These organisms survive off hydrogen sulfide, also known as rotten egg gas to us humans. These organisms use a process called chemosynthesis to survive. These organisms can survive temps up to 113 degrees Celsius, which is the highest temp recorded that an organism can survive