Oh! Bubbles! Right there!
Oh, yeah, so you can see some methane hydrate forming there.
And so if you're just joining us,
methane hydrate is sometimes called methane ice and it's a frozen form of methane and water
that forms at relatively high pressures and low temperatures.
This gas hydrate is stable at the conditions we find at the seafloor in this part of the Gulf of Mexico,
and it's been found in many places here, particularly under overhangs or as seafloor mounds.
This is so beautiful.
We see here droplets of methane coming out of the seafloor that are that encased with methane hydrate.
Some of them are growing as we watch and then releasing.
There's a hydrate tube and methane just coming up.
This is really phenomenal. Thank you so much for this focus. It's beautiful.