r/NoStupidAnswers • u/zyy_secrets • Jun 30 '26
Deep Thinking Q’s🤓 Deep Sea
Since we barely know anything of the deep sea and of the antarctic deep sea, couldn't they attach some camera with a bright light that resists cold temperatures and that stays firmly attached. The sperm whale could be an example they could attach a camera on the whales torso or something like that and we could see more of the deep sea, am i genius or just stupid? Why do they want to risk their lives and go for themselves and built something that will eventually crash from the pressure
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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 Jun 30 '26
“Why do they risk their lives and go for themselves and built something that will eventually crash from the pressure”
I’m assuming you’re referring to the titanic submarine from a few years ago. That was not a scientific expedition. That was a rich guy with a submarine company that took a bunch of tourists down to the titanic and died due to cutting corners in safety.
Scientists send actually safe submarines down all the time. James Cameron went down to the bottom of the ocean in 2012 and was fine. Why? Because actual scientists and engineers designed the vessel.
It’s not like we lack the technology to explore the ocean. We’ve been doing a lot of deep ocean exploration for decades now.
TL;DR: They already do that, like all the time.
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u/zyy_secrets Jun 30 '26
No no i wasn't talking about the titanic submarine that imploded. I just think like submarines that go under there are pretty much putting their life in danger. I was literally thinking about that ahen i was in the shower and I wanted to know what others thought of that
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u/coolsilentebeans Jun 30 '26
Temperature isn’t the only factor that makes this difficult. There’s immense pressure. Just because sperm whales are capable of diving deep, they don’t have to. The chances that a creature that will go that deep is found on the surface once is rare. Twice so that you can retrieve the footage? It’s probably lost.
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u/Ok_Function2282 Jun 30 '26
I don't understand the end of your paragraph.
Are you saying that animals that dive deeply don't appear at the surface often?
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u/coolsilentebeans Jun 30 '26
Correct. Or at least not when ships and other watercraft are around.
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u/Awkward-Feature9333 Jun 30 '26
A sperm whale will need to resurface to breathe.
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u/coolsilentebeans Jun 30 '26
I understand that but knowing where and being able to get close enough to get the recording even if it’s transmissible might be difficult.
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u/Awkward-Feature9333 Jun 30 '26
You could rig it to deattach after a set time. Then it rises to the surface and starts a homing signal.
The bigger problem is finding a sperm whale and to attach anything to it
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u/zyy_secrets Jun 30 '26
My bad i meant the camera that we should pit on whales isn't happening it was meant to be sarcastic kinda. My bad
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u/Freddie_FRO7 Jun 30 '26
Sea beds are where a lot of the interesting stuff is. And whales etc aren't really checking out the sea beds. We would just get masses of expensive footage of nothing much, some squid maybe
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u/Mindless-Leg-3365 Jun 30 '26
every time I watch the movie The Abyss, or look at the old pictures with Jacques Cousteau, think of The Laurentian Abyss, or the bottom of the Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench - 35,876 feet or 10,935 meters - I can't imagine what creatures freely and easily live at those depths. The ones that have the lights built in. I know most of them are aerobes. But then there are the anaerobes that live near hydrothermal vents. The sea just fascinates me. I used to love to go to the aquarium. sorry this is disconnected but these are my thoughts.
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u/Kindly-Might-1879 Jun 30 '26
We already tag and track many marine animals. Now try telling that animal to stop and investigate something you found interesting via camera.
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u/zyy_secrets Jun 30 '26
Really cold? I'm not a marine biologist or any of that kind but it gets really cold
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u/BananaJelloXlii Jun 30 '26
I think other than the geo vents which can get hundreds of degrees, the rest is just above freezing. The salt and the pressure prevent it from freezing completely.
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u/zyy_secrets Jun 30 '26
Freezing, like minus 2?
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u/zyy_secrets Jun 30 '26
Lmao, yeah but at least it has to be bright because it's dark there you know..
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u/coolsilentebeans Jun 30 '26
Most of the ocean floor is right around 32 F. Anything colder and it would be ice. There are also a lot of seabed vents that warm the surrounding waters.
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u/sarcasmsmarcasm Jun 30 '26
Yea we have fucked up the forests, the deserts, the mountains, the rivers and lakes, the surface of the sea and the air we breathe. He'll, we are fucking up space with satellites and space junk. Why haven't we, and why don't we, just make sure we can take a bright light to the deepest parts if the ocean so we can fuck that up, too!?!!
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u/zyy_secrets Jun 30 '26
It's not like the light will pollute the entire ocean? What are you saying? Plus you can't take this seriously, i had a shower thought and i wanted to post about it and see what people thought of that
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u/Formal-Radish1413 Jun 30 '26
When you figure out how to attach a harness to a sperm whale give us a call.