With lucky dive, scientists get a front-row view of the creation of Earth’s surface · Paul Voosen
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Chance—and preparation—reveal live action at midocean ridges PAUL VOOSEN, in Montreal I t was just another dive, 2500 me- ters down. In April 2025, Alvin, the legendary deep-sea submers- ible, was on its 17th sortie at the East Pacific Rise, a midocean ridge some 2000 kilometers west of Costa Rica, where the ocean floor slowly spreads apart as magma wells up. On the way down, Andrew Wozniak, a geochemist at the University of Dela- ware, told the undergraduate student joining him about Tica, the exotic hydrothermal field they would visit—a playground for tubeworms, pelt fish, and giant mussels. As another Alvin pilot once described it, just imagine The Wizard of Oz, but underwater. …
摘自《科学》(Science)第393卷 第6812期 · 2026年8月13日,Paul Voosen。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。