Hydrothermal Vents

http://www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib/5015582586/

How they form

http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/vents/vent-chemistry.html#

Chemosynthesis vs. Photosynthesis

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/education/curr_p1_12.html

Hydrothermal vents were first discovered in 1977 near the

Galapagos islands.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/11/5-things-everyone-should-know-about-galapagos.php

Angus Mission: 1977• 8,250 feet deep.• Temperature: 36

degrees Fahrenheit.• Photographs:

30,000 pictures of barren rock.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib/5424699937/

*This is not Angus but Alvin another famous research submersible

Angus Mission: 1977• Depth 8,250 feet.• Temperature: 600 degrees Fahrenheit. • Photographs: 15 pictures of clams, tube worms,

and crabs.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neptunecanada/6107370518/

Videos!http://www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea/level-1/creature/creature.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neptunecanada/5058251236/