Saltwater Pools: Discovered in the Red Sea

Scientists at the University of Miami have made a surprising recent discovery. It’s weird to pee from brine of deep waters located in the Gulf of Aqaba, northern extension of the Red Sea. They are simply saltwater lakes that serve as identifiers for how the oceans formed. There is talk of an event from millions of years ago that provides clues about the life of other planets.

The discovery was made by Sam Purkis, professor and chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences and his team. The find is located more than a mile below the sea’s surface in a remote-controlled underwater vehicle on theOceanXplorer. It is the super equipped marine research vessel to reach the most inaccessible places on earth.

Our discovery of a rich community of microbes that survive in extreme environments could help draw the boundaries of life on Earth and could be applied to the search for life elsewhere in our solar system and beyond.

Professor Sam Purkis

The brine baths, despite their high salinity, lack of oxygen and exotic chemistry, are ultimately rich in forms from to live. Their study is also related to bioactive molecules with great anti-cancer properties. These molecules are isolated from the microbes of the brine pool in the Red Sea.

In addition, the salt pools provide information about: earthquakes And tsunami from the wave of thousands of years ago. In fact, in Aqaba, related to tectonics, there are many fractures and faults. In early 2022, Purkis and the team took over one undersea landslide 500 years caused a tsunami among the historical. On the other hand, this landslide may be involved in the evolution of the coasts in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.