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Here's something most might not already be familiar with.

When the nereus deep sea robotic probe visited the Challenger Deep, it sampled the strange white ooze reported by the Trieste crew to cover the bottom of the trench. It turned out to be liquified organic remains, mostly bone.

You see, the pressure at that depth does not permit solid calcium to exist. Bones literally dissolve.

Pic related, Nereus sampling bone goo.

>>3188297

>>man has been to the deepest depths of the ocean. there's nothing there.

On the contrary, in their brief time on the bottom the two man crew of the Trieste saw a pale white bottom dwelling fish, bioluminescent organisms everywhere, and noted that the floor of the challenger deep was made up of some kind of soft white ooze.

The Nereus robot probe later sampled this ooze and determined it to be the calcium rich, decomposed remains of every chitinous sea creature ever to die and drift into the trench. It's unknown how deep the ooze is, or what a core sample would reveal.

Pic related, Nereus samples the ooze.

Here's a photo of what the trieste, and later robotic subs, found at the bottom of the trench.

It's an organic goo, the remains of millions of years worth of oceanic creatures. Presumably mostly liquified bone and chitin. It's not known how deep this layer of goo is.