There's been a lot of excitement about these holes.
One of the things we're all interested in is how almost
perfectly aligned these are and the regularity of the spacing
of the holes and the size of the holes themselves. And the
shape of the holes. And the shape. I will say the
angularity, the rectangularness. Right, I
agree. I mean, my first thought also is that that looks
something man made. They're so perfectly spaced. I mean, why
would it always be that spacing? If you look in the
fossil record, there are also indications of similar sorts of
features and so this suggests that there's an organism that has
been making these sorts of features for a very long time.
In the paper that Mike Vecchione and his colleague wrote, they
were at about 2,000 meters I believe. We've got no idea what
makes these things that we don't even know if they're made
by something underneath the surface, you know, making a
tunnel occasionally punching up a hole or so made by something
walking along the surface and down through the the sediment.
Uh it's, it's a mystery basically. It's clear that
everybody does love a mystery. Uh the public and scientists
including. So as the public has been hypothesizing about what
might have caused these holes in social media put up by our
wonderful partners at the Global Foundation for Ocean
Exploration. Scientists have also been chatting back and
forth about possible mechanisms to create these holes and we've
heard everything from from deep ocean floats to gastropods. I
had an interesting email that suggest that something had laid
some eggs subsurface and when those eggs hatch basically they
create those eruptive mounts whales feeding whaleon the bottom,
beaked whales specifically, I think I'm going with the idea
that there's something there's probably a tunnel connecting
these underneath the surface. I'm really still hoping that
I'll, I'll hear from either a member of the scientific
community or a member of the public with with an explanation
that is just you know spot on incontrovertible. Yeah it just
makes complete sense because we've had a number of them and
you know they all well not all but a lot of them have strong
merits to them but none of them are what I would say
conclusive.