Potential Seep
Video courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, Windows to the Deep 2019. Download larger version (mp4, 98.0 MB).

Finding even a potential seep site can be surprising for scientists. Here it was unexpected as the previous evening’s mapping data did not suggest a seep might be present. We've only been studying seeps along this margin since about 2012, so every observation lends additional clues to our understanding of the geology of this region.

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