Chapter 129 Monkfish
While lamenting how advanced the technology is now, Xiang Yang is very fortunate that he can get the mysterious jade shell.
If there were no mysterious jade shells, he would have no advantage over ordinary fishermen, and even worse than those fishing boats that introduced high-tech.
Xiang Yang followed Li Bodao and swam down for more than ten meters with the mentality of looking at the scenery.
At this time, the three of them passed a protruding reef, and Xiang Yang could finally see the scenery below that was blocked by the reef before.
Xiang Yang saw flakes of white rocks, and there were many honeycomb-like small holes on the rocks, and countless atomized water jets sprayed out of the small holes.
All kinds of beautiful coral reefs grow under this trench, countless tropical sea fish shuttle among the coral reefs, and there are patches of kelp growing upwards, which looks like a piece of green grassland at a glance.
‘Sorpi turtle! Xiang Yang almost cried out. He saw a porpoise with a back shell over one meter long in a certain kelp clump underneath, which had just preyed on a jellyfish and was chewing it. After a few bites, he swallowed Then he took a bite of the kelp floating all over his body, chewed a few mouthfuls and swallowed it again, looking like a leisurely old man.
Xiang Yang didn't know how to remind Professor Chen Yu to go in that direction, so he could only say, Teacher, Director Li Bo, shall we just keep diving like this?
No, we may have to go up soon. Professor Chen Yu said in a serious voice, I noticed that rock just now. The geological structure of this sea area is very unstable. Large-scale volcanic eruptions, a large amount of water vapor is ejected from the crust, and then the crust is vacuum-collapsed.
Xiang Yang asked suspiciously: Teacher, you mean this is an active volcano?
It's too early to define whether this is an active volcano. It's not enough for me to boldly guess that this place used to be a volcano. This gully is the crater. There should be hot springs under the crater. Only in this way can we explain why this place survives. There are so many jellyfish that like to live in warm waters. Professor Chen Yu said.
Xiang Yang joked: If the volcano erupts later, then we'll play Dafa.
Hearing this, Professor Chen Yu and Director Li both laughed, if a real volcanic eruption would be a big blow?
The power of volcanic eruptions is no joke, it is a super natural disaster comparable to earthquakes and landslides, especially on the bottom of the sea, if there is a volcanic eruption, all creatures within a radius of many miles will die, even the king squid Ocean overlords like blue whales, down to the lowest-level producers like plankton and impetuousness, all appear equally weak in the face of natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions.
Of course, whether it is Xiang Yang, Professor Chen Yu, or Director Li, they all know that there will be no volcanic eruption at this moment. There are so many marine life in this sea area, and there are countless marine plants. Plankton, I think it must be extremely long since there has been a volcanic eruption.
If they happen to catch up with the volcanic eruption at this time, then don't say anything, go back and buy 20 welfare lottery tickets first, at least the chance of winning the welfare lottery number one prize is much higher than this.
Especially in sea areas like this where a large number of warm-loving marine organisms live, one can tell at a glance that there are submarine hot springs, which means that the volcano is releasing its own energy all the time, and its energy accumulation will only decrease. Not enough to form a second outbreak.
Xiang Yang, thank you very much for your call. Even if we can't find the porpoise this time, we will definitely make a lot of money. This submarine trench is of great research value for us to study how the ocean is formed. Li Bo guided.
Xiang Yang expressed doubts, Hasn't the formation of the ocean been determined long ago?
When the earth was first formed about 4.6 billion years ago, the geological structure was very unstable. The water and gas inside the earth rushed out of the earth's crust. As a result, it was thought that the gravitational force could not escape the earth, so a circle of water vapor was formed around the earth. layer, which is the most primitive atmosphere and the earliest ocean.
Yes, the earliest oceans were in the sky.
After another 500 million years, frequent large-scale volcanic eruptions occurred on the earth. At this time, the temperature of the earth's surface gradually cooled, and the temperature of the atmosphere also decreased. At this time, the water vapor in the atmosphere slowly condensed into water droplets, and gathered to form rainwater. .
It took millions of years for that heavy rain to finally form into a real sea. This is what Xiang Yang learned when he was in school.
That's just a bold scientific guess. How the ocean was formed still needs a lot of scientific verification before it can be truly confirmed. Halfway through his words, Chen Yu suddenly gasped in surprise, Huh, that seems to be monkfish?
Monkfish? Where is it? Xiang Yang also hurriedly asked.
If it is really monkfish, then this trench may not be as simple as what Xiang Yang saw. There may be a trench under the trench, because monkfish is a deep-water fish that lives in extremely deep seabed.
The seawater within 200 meters is a light-transmitting zone. Although the biological population is the largest, there are almost no marine life that can emit light.
The ocean between 200 meters and 900 meters deep belongs to the twilight zone, and there are a lot of luminous marine fish living in this area. Xiang Yang is still more inclined to think that Professor Chen is wrong, and mistook other luminous marine fish for Ankang fish.
Soon, Xiang Yang saw a strange fish with a fat body, a big and round head, and a split mouth wider than the head.
That strange fish has a mouth full of fangs, its teeth are like fish bones, each one is only as thick as chopsticks but really as long as chopsticks. The body is very similar to Mr. Fish, also without scales and extremely ugly. On the top of the head there is a long long fin extending from the back like a fishing rod. There is a lantern like a bait on the top of the spine, and the light flashes. flash.
Xiang Yang's expression changed, It's really a monkfish.
To be honest, Xiang Yang and the others are not afraid of sharks even when they come down with this diving suit, but they can't afford to mess with monkfish.
Because monkfish live in the deep seabed and have relatively few prey, they are extraordinarily fierce and difficult. Once they find their prey, they will chase after them and will never let the prey escape. Moreover, the stomach of monkfish is extremely rare like a snake. They even It can swallow food bigger than its own body. Once a biologist discovered an undigested shark skeleton in its stomach when dissecting monkfish. This ferocious sea fish is full of viciousness. , and even sharks are in their diet.
Did you see it clearly? Is it really a monkfish? Director Li was a little confused. If it was really a monkfish, he would have nearly 10 questions about whether the diving suit on his body, which was said to be able to protect against shark bites, could protect against monkfish. The centimeter-long teeth bite without any confidence.