I've been watching this documentary that's been on T.V. on a weekly basis here called Blue Planet about Deep Sea exploration. God, it's amazing. Are they showing this in the States now? I wish I could post some of the pictures that they are showing, but I can't find them on the net anywhere.

Here's a link to the documentary site. I'm kind of bummed with the site because it is geared at kids only, but I did manage to steal a flash cartoonish animation of what I think is called a rat trap fish and put it on the main df page. They have two red glowing headlights under their eyes and a huge mouth that extends. I could not believe all the bio-illumination that is in the deep ocean. I am currently reading two books, one called Life on Mars (just finished it), which I can't recommend too much, but it did explore possible ways that life could exist on Mars and the other book is Dark Life which is about life that exists in deep caves that use chemosynthesis instead of photosynthesis. Anyway, this Blue Planet documentary went into the ocean ridges that pour out sufides from the Earth's mantle supporting a whole ecosystem at the bottom of lightless ocean. I knew about that already, but then it went into a whole ecosystem that survives off methane gas at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Never heard of that. It was complete with an underwater lake. Yes, that's right, an underwater lake. It looked so cool. It's saline content was more heavy than the surrounding water so a lake formed under the clear waters of the deep Gulf. Cool stuff, I highly recommend checking the documentary out. They are showing a great number of never before seen species. Supposedly, man has only explored about 1% of the ocean floor.