My Deep-sea Fishery

Get that elephant seal on the deck, if it explodes and hurts people, Xiang Yang is definitely asking for trouble.

Seeing that Xiang Yang disagreed with getting the elephant seal onto the boat, Fang Youqun sighed and had no choice but to let it go.

In fact, in Xiang Yang's view, Fang Youqun is a bit unfounded.

This bit of wind and snow is nothing to the seals at all.

If there is a heavy snowstorm that can cause trouble for the seals, then Xiang Yang and the others will definitely be in more trouble.

"Let's go, it's not safe to be on the boat in snowy weather, let's set up camp on the ice first." Gao Chuang said to Xiang Yang.

Xiang Yang nodded.

In blizzard weather, the ambient temperature can reach as low as minus 70 degrees, which is completely a world of ice and snow.

Only 30 to 40 degrees below zero can freeze steel, and more than 70 degrees below zero is definitely not safe on a fishing boat.

On the contrary, it is the ice surface. As long as the camp is set up, it can survive better.

The ice surface of Antarctica is very extensive, almost everywhere is covered with ice, it is difficult to see bare rock and soil, and even in deep places, the ice layer is more than 4,800 meters thick.

Xiang Yang drove the fishing boat and soon found a very large ice floe.

This floe is very thick, and the surface of the ice layer is covered with countless cracks like a mirror.

But Xiang Yang knew that no matter how many cracks there were in this piece of floating ice, it was still very safe, and it was impossible for it to break, because it had existed for at least tens of millions of years.

"The ice here is more than 900 meters thick, and the total depth of the seabed is only more than 1,200 meters. It can be said that it is a very solid piece of ice. We can rest assured to stay on it." A crew member detected from the sonar After getting the data on the device, report it to Xiang Yanghui.

Xiang Yang nodded, and then asked: "Can you detect whether there is any living thing in this piece of ice?"

In Antarctica, there are some ice blocks that have life in them.

Scientists have discovered a mysterious biota in Antarctica.

These groups of organisms usually stay in the ice and do not move.

But those creatures are inactive and can maintain the characteristics of life activities. Experts speculate that they may filter seawater to fill their stomachs.

"Our instruments are not advanced enough to detect inside the ice," the crew member replied.

Xiang Yang nodded, expressing his understanding.

To find living organisms in the ice, I am afraid that drilling must be done.

Moreover, those mysterious species are very rare creatures, even knowledgeable scientists can hardly find them, and most of these mysterious species are unknown new species.

Regarding these new species, Xiang Yang was actually just asking casually, without any hope of actually finding them.

Xiang Yang is very curious. Under the ice layer that is several hundred meters thick, those creatures cannot use sunlight to perform photosynthesis to obtain energy to survive.

And the place where light can be obtained recently is more than 600 kilometers away. Are those creatures able to survive to synthesize the energy substances they need through their own chemical process?

This is unimaginable in the biota on land, and it is also a very common way of survival on the seabed.

In addition, there are many lakes covered under the glaciers of the Antarctic continent.

For a long time, scientists from all over the world have paid close attention to those lakes, hoping to discover new creatures in those lakes.

Scientists have discovered that some amazing creatures can survive under the ice for millions of years.

This has even broken through human cognition, and it is nothing more than an immortal creature.

The discovery of these organisms has convinced scientists that the environmental needs of organisms may not be so harsh.

Many biologists believe that since organisms can exist in the extreme environment of the earth, there are likely to be some organisms on alien planets. With the development of human technology, humans will one day discover new things in the universe. species.

After arriving on the ice, Xiang Yang was not idle this time. He also set up a camp on the ice with the crew himself.

And the elephant seal did not leave alone, it followed the fleet and swam to this sea area.

When Xiang Yang and other crew members disembarked and reached the ice, the seal even chased to the ice, as if it wanted to get close to Xiang Yang and others.

Immediately, several crew members with gas tanks on their backs sprayed fire at the elephant seal with a blowtorch gun, driving it away from the camp.

"My God, Captain, Mr. Gao, come and take a look, this looks like a plant." At this moment, a crew member suddenly exclaimed loudly.

Xiang Yang smiled, feeling that the crew member was a bit unusual.

Antarctica is one of the most mysterious places on Earth. There are still many unsolved mysteries about this remote, inhospitable, and snow-covered region, because of its vast size and distance from the cities we live in. Human beings have many mysteries about Antarctica.

In such a large piece of Antarctica, it is not surprising that plants will appear.

But Xiang Yang still walked towards the direction of the crew.

When Xiang Yang approached, Xiang Yang was immediately stunned.

Because what grew on that piece of ice seemed to be a kind of mushroom.

"Brother Yang, do you recognize this mushroom?" Fang Youqun asked curiously.

Xiang Yang shook his head, "I don't know, this may be a brand new species."

It is not difficult to discover a new species in a place like Antarctica, and scientists estimate that there are about 15 million different species living on Earth.

So far, scientists have only discovered and named about 2 million species, less than 1/7 of the total.

"Wait, I seem to know what this is." Xiang Yang suddenly remembered a document he had read.

Just last August, scientists accidentally discovered a marine organism similar to a spore plant on a seabed boulder 900 meters below the Antarctic ice shelf.

At the time, it appeared that a researcher had stumbled upon a life-hosting rock after drilling a borehole into an ice shelf near the southeastern Weddell Sea in Antarctica and obtaining a core of sediment from the sea floor.

Compared with the various exotic creatures in Antarctica, this spore plant is simply inconspicuous.

Scientists have discovered countless species of small mobile creatures in surveys of Antarctic marine life.

For example, fish, worms, jellyfish and krill, it is a miracle that these creatures can survive in Antarctica.

Far below the ice shelf, scientists have even spotted never-before-seen stationary filter-feeders.

Some sub-ice animals can survive by devouring the food that falls on them, and their scarcity has left many scientists baffled by how those that survive in the darkness, lack of food and sub-zero cold conditions under the ice.