Researchers Discover Something Horrifying at the Red Sea’s Bottom

Researchers discovered the terrifying finding that there are more hazardous deep water critters under the Red water’s surface. Scientists have discovered a huge brine pool at the ocean’s bottom that is around 100 feet long and capable of killing any animal that enters it. Natural treasures all around the world may be found in these ponds. University of Miami researchers employed a remotely operated underwater vehicle during a 2020 mission to discover this specific pool, which covers 107,000 square feet. It is oxygen-free, but it also contains the key to understanding the beginnings of life on Earth and provides essential information about the environmental changes occurring in this area.

“Our current understanding is that life originated on Earth in the deep sea, almost certainly in anoxic without oxygen conditions,” Sam Purkis, a professor and head of the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Miami, told Live Science. Deep-sea brine pools are a fantastic model for the early Earth because they are thriving with a diverse array of so-called “extremophile” bacteria despite being hypersaline and devoid of oxygen. Thus, examining this community provides a window into the circumstances under which life first developed on Earth and may help direct the hunt for life on other “water worlds” in our solar system and beyond.

Although they are hazardous, scientists also believe that the unusual microbes that live in these harsh settings can create particles that are useful for medicinal applications. Purkis added that researchers have discovered compounds in microscopic creatures from deep-sea brine pools that have the ability to combat cancer and germs.

Such deep-sea brine lakes are common in the Red Sea, however they are typically located around 25 kilometers from the coast. But in 2020, in a region that had not before been studied, scientists discovered the first brine pools close to the Gulf of Aqaba, closer to the Saudi Arabian shore.

Sam Purkis went on to say that the brine pool, which is devoid of oxygen, is also known as the death pool since nothing that comes in contact with it survives. Normally, there isn’t much life on the seafloor at this tremendous depth in the ocean. But brine pools stand out because they are teeming with life. They contain a lot of microorganisms, which are microscopic creatures that serve as food for numerous species that live around the brine pool.

These recently found brine lakes provided data that helped scientists better comprehend earthquakes and tsunamis. These pools provide information on the region’s historical rainfall stretching back more than a thousand years, along with records of earthquakes and tsunamis. According to their analysis, large floods brought on by heavy rain have occured around every 25 years during the previous 1,000 years, but tsunamis have only happened about once per hundred years.