Essay about Deep Sea Fish Adaptions

In the article “What’s at the Bottom of the Ocean?” authored by Samantha Larson, it states that there is more to see on the ocean floor than meets the eye. David Gruber, the main oceanographer in the ocean exploration team, has discovered hundreds of unknown species and has even helped with breakthroughs in medical research. “The deep sea is a beautiful and foreign place, with many different creatures and geological structures,” Gruber expressed. When he was traveling underwater in the South Pacific, he witnessed tens of thousands of tiny flashlight fish swimming in 20 foot waters. He also discovered that these flashlight fish use biofluorescence to communicate with each other by absorbing blue light and turning

6. ^ Impact from the Deep; October 2006; Scientific American Magazine; by Peter D. Ward; 8 Page(s)

Although there can be certain cons to pursuing marine biology as a profession, there are an abundant amount of pros to living this life. In addition to learning about marine creatures, marine biologists also help develop medicines and find different cures for sicknesses ("What is Marine Biology?”). Marine biologists get to see amazing aquatic places and animals that are very astounding and beautiful. I have wanted to be a marine biologist since I was five years old I never saw myself being anything other then that. After reading five articles and writing this essay, I cannot wait to go to college and become a marine biologist. The ocean takes up 96.5% of the surface of the earth. There are numerous amounts of mysteries that make up the deep-sea and without the help of marine biologists they would all be

An entire new world, different from our own exists beneath the surface of our oceans. This life is full of color, shapes, sizes, wonder, and even darkness. Much of this life has yet to be explored but we still know that beneath the waves exist the most beautiful creatures and the most bizarre. Magical areas such as the coral reef and mysterious areas such as the depths of the ocean are homes to over 700,000 species that live in the ocean. This includes the eighty percent of the ocean that has yet to be explored. Even though there may be separate oceans on this planet, they are still interconnected by a body of salt water. No area of the ocean is the same, which brings us to the wonderful fact that so many different species are able to flourish

Scientist in order to measure the depth of the ocean use “Bomb Sounding” this is where they throw TNT into trenches and from the echo that it gives the scientist than approximate its depth. “Recent expeditions such as the HADES project in the Pacific suggest that fish are not found below 27,560 feet. But the hadal zone extends to 36,000 feet”, (Cock-Starkey 9). The development of the “DeepSea Challenger” allowed the ability for scientist to travel down the trench to collect rocks, sediments,and biological samples. Scientist from Scripps Institute Oceanography, University of Hawai’i, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory all joined in into the DeepSea Challenger setting their research on marine biology, microbiology, astrobiology, marine geology and geophysics. Living in the deepest part of ocean surfaced thoughts of marine life being non-existent because of the lethal conditions it has , but past findings of marine life as deep as 27,560 feet shook scientist. Marine adaptation has grown because of the frequent findings of marine life such as the following: Frilled Shark (5,000 ft), Giant Spider Crab (estimate 1,000 ft), Atlantic Wolffish Pair (1,600 ft), Fangtooth Fish (16,500 ft), Six-Gill Shark (8,200 ft) and etc. All these deep sea creatures have adapted to low oxygen levels and the lightless depth of the

Pitch black, dead quiet and seemingly desolate, the deep sea resembles that of a far off alien world. Until recent advancements in technology, little to none has been known about the deep sea. Far beyond the natural reach of humans, only highly expensive submersibles have visited the ocean’s deepest and darkest locations. In the Pacific Northwest, an eerie 7-mile venture underwater will take you to the deepest spot on the planet, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.

Killer whales, who swim up to 100 miles a day in the ocean, are confined to pools which are, at most, 40 feet deep.

The ocean is one of, if not, the largest biome on earth. There are more than one million species of marine life. Covering over 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, the ocean is our planet’s largest habitat, containing 99 percent of the living space on the planet. This area holds the life of nearly 50 percent of all species on Earth. Like lakes, oceans are subdivided into separate zones: intertidal, pelagic, abyssal, and benthic. All four zones have a great diversity of species. The intertidal zone is the region along the shoreline between average low tide and average high tide. In other words, this region goes through cycles of submergence and exposure to air. Animals in this zone must be able to survive the extended periods

The deep sea is the largest habitat on earth and is largely exploited. Pressure rises, temperature drop around freezing, and sunlight can’t even reach to it. Yet, there is life below the deep ocean, the mysterious world takes up 95% of earth’s living space. To survive in the extremely harsh conditions, the most challenging environment, those creatures have had to evolve to the unique adaption. You can’t dive to the deep ocean on your own, but scientist. By using a remote controlled underwater vehicle which allowed them to explore 7,200 feet below the ocean surface, what they are finding will amaze you.

The Navy Marine Mammal Program (NMMP), located in San Diego, California, has been going on for many years, beginning in the late 1950s, when the Navy began to study the unique attributes of marine mammals, such as their hydrodynamics. By understanding how certain animals maneuver in the water, perhaps the Navy could improve torpedo, ship and submarine designs (Marine Mammal Program). The Navy soon realized that dolphins would be valuable assistants to their divers working in the abyss of the open ocean. Unlike human divers, marine mammals are capable of making repetitive deep dives without experiencing “the bends,” or decompression sickness, a condition that arises from dissolved gases forming into bubbles within the body as a result from diving

living but they have predators like the megalodon shark so i tell you that if you were to go deep

The ocean is a very beautiful place. It consist of various different types of creatures and plants. 70% of the earth is made up of the ocean, with an average depth of 12, 400 ft. We have only explored less than 5% of the ocean. The ocean has a 17 °C (62.6* F) temperature, and has a latitude of 14.5994 °s and longitude of 28.6731 °w. The deepest part of the ocean is the Mariana Trench, which is about 36,000 ft. Photons (light) can’t go more than 330 ft below the water’s surface. 94% of life on Earth is aquatic, one living in a pond or aquarium. All the creatures of the sea must survive harsh conditions, predators, lack of oxygen, too much pressure, scares food, lack of sunlight, and extremely cold parts of the ocean. Certain types of plants,

Deep sea creatures have evolved in some pretty weird ways. Like the Anglerfish. When Anglerfish mate they morph together and are like that forever. Some deep sea marine fish have both male and female sex organs and many can change sex as well. Some of the creatures have evolved to live off of chemical energy instead of sun light.

Now, instead of adventure, all (marine) biologists have gone all over the world to save what used to be the most beautiful part of the ocean to parts of the ocean where animal species need to return to its’ natural number because of garbage, toxins, and other wastes in the ocean. The thought of being surrounded by darkness at the bottom of the sea might give people an ambiguous feeling, but not for biologists who truly think of the ocean as something so ethereal. Today, the possibility to explore any part of the ocean, has infinite chances that are all almost inevitable of

For many years humans have struggled to discover the deepest parts of the ocean and have also struggled with discovering space. We could not go really deep into the ocean, because humans can not withstand the pressure that the ocean produces. But now there is a robot that can reach the ocean floor called “The Benthic Rover”. With that new robot, scientist will be able to record how changes on the surface of the ocean will impact the marine animals below. “What is special about the rover is that we will be able to stay in the deep parts of the ocean for a really long time collecting seasonal changes data” (Engineer Alana Sherman). With Benthic Rover,