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BadNick · 04-21-2010, 06:08 PM

aha!!!! Yes. That's where I'm hiding. The water right here is pretty damn hot!

The Cayman Trough, or Cayman Trench, also called Bartlett Deep, or Bartlett Trough, also recently referred to as amonkie's hot spot, is a complex transform fault zone pull apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea and forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate.

In March 2010 a UK team from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton (NOCS), led by the famous underwater scientist and adventurer Tully Mars, and equipped with an autonomously controlled, robot submarine called BadNick, began mapping the full extent of the trench and discovered black smokers (unlike uncle phil who is a white smoker when he's puffing his Havana) on the ocean floor at a depth of 3.1 miles (5 kilometers), the deepest yet found anywhere in the world.

You're up, monkie.

04-21-2010, 06:08 PM	#9706 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	aha!!!! Yes. That's where I'm hiding. The water right here is pretty damn hot! The Cayman Trough, or Cayman Trench, also called Bartlett Deep, or Bartlett Trough, also recently referred to as amonkie's hot spot, is a complex transform fault zone pull apart basin which contains a small spreading ridge on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea and forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. In March 2010 a UK team from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton (NOCS), led by the famous underwater scientist and adventurer Tully Mars, and equipped with an autonomously controlled, robot submarine called BadNick, began mapping the full extent of the trench and discovered black smokers (unlike uncle phil who is a white smoker when he's puffing his Havana) on the ocean floor at a depth of 3.1 miles (5 kilometers), the deepest yet found anywhere in the world. You're up, monkie.