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Recently, scientists discovered holes on the ocean floor, around 6000 feet deep from the surface. A deep-sea exploring device found a pattern of pits spewing boiling hot water using a deep-sea exploring device. During the dive, north of the Azores, an island north of the shores of Portugal, they discovered another batch of deep-sea holes that seemed to lead to nowhere.

Where did these holes come from? Could marine life be responsible for the mysterious appearances? The short answer is no. According to National Geographic, the only organism to build pits are puffer fish. However, puffer fish don’t build holes so deep, and even if there was a new species that could make holes, it would require so much time and energy to even make one of these so it is not logical. I think that the holes appear because of the pressure underneath the sea floor.

First, the sea floor is the area where the altitude is the deepest, so that makes it the thinnest to the next layer of the earth, meaning that it’s the most prone to breakage. Second, pressure could have built up from all the heat and rushed out into the ocean. That’s why these hydro-thermic vents keep on appearing because currently, there was too much pressure underneath the crust of the earth.

This is the most logical yet simple explanation of the origin of these vents.

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