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Hydrothermal vent chimney black smoker at Beebe Vent Field.

Hydrothermal vent chimney black smoker at Beebe Vent Field.
Hydrothermal vent chimney black smoker at Beebe Vent Field.
Hydrothermal vent chimney black smoker at Beebe Vent Field.
Hydrothermal vent chimney black smoker at Beebe Vent Field.
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HOV Alvin
Hydrothermal vent chimney black smoker at Beebe Vent Field.
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08/10/2022
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Caption from 2023 WHOI Wall Calendar, October:
Sulfide chimneys gush copper-rich plumes of smoke in the Beebe Vent Field, the hottest (400 C, ~750 F) and deepest (5,000 meters, ~16,400 feet) known hydrothermal vents in the world. This image was taken in August 2022 during human-occupied vehicle Alvin’s science verification expedition to test the sub at its new, maximum depth of 6,500 meters (extended from 4,500 meters). Despite the depth and the apparent toxicity of Beebe vent fluids, millions of endemic shrimp drape the surfaces of these black smokers that lie along an ultra-slow spreading center of the mid-ocean ridge known as the Mid-Cayman Rise.
Courtesy of Bruce Strickrott, WHOI/NSF/HOV Alvin 2022 © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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