What are the temperatures like in Antarctica and under the sea?
The temperatures on land in Antarctica get to be quite cold (20-30 degrees below freezing) and are close to freezing underwater. However this makes for some unusual animals in shallow waters, as some deep-water animals (such as the sea spider you saw earlier) can actually traverse up to regions shallow enough to be collected and or observed by hand. Wilasia asks: Have you seen any icebergs, yet? Sorry, no. Haven’t see any icebergs yet it’s still too warm where we are. Sam asks: How do you see inside trenches and at the very bottom of the sea? In addition to various satellite scanners and other devices, there are also several submersibles that can go down to the deepest parts of the sea [ed. See Journal #6 about the “Hyball”!]. Some of the deepest submersibles can go to 5000+ meters in depth. Bonnie asks: How far below the water can you go? Our nets can sample many hundreds of meters below the surface. So far, the deepest we have gone is about 900 meters, but our mission will not includ
