This week’s video is from the Ocean Science and Exploration team OceanX.
On its maiden mission to the Red Sea, OceanXplorer made a surprising discovery: a brine pool, over 1700 meters below the surface, teeming with otherworldly life – extremophiles, to be precise, lifeforms that survive in conditions we wouldn’t believe possible on our planet, and which provide clues to how life on Earth began. This is the first-ever brine pool discovered in the Gulf of Aqaba, in the northern Red Sea.