Why it's incredible: The brine pool is peppered with the carcasses of animals that were unlucky enough to enter the deadly waters. The "Hot Tub of Despair" is a deadly pool of extremely salty water at ...

Marine scientists indeed call a deep-sea brine pool off the eastern coast of Mexico a "Jacuzzi of Despair" or "Hot Tub of Despair." While it's true that most organisms that enter the water will die ...

The “jacuzzi of death” isn’t the hot tub everybody avoids on one of those cruise ships that return with less people than expected. Rather, it’s an anomaly, a geographical oddity whose formation dates ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Gulf of Mexico is known for many things, ...

An image from the ROV Hercules aboard the Nautilus shows a brine pool with walls made up of barite. NOAA NOAA Scientists say they have found a lake at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, but it may not ...

Scientists have discovered alien-like brine pools deep beneath the ocean, forming dense, hypersaline lakes on the seafloor. These extreme environments, lethal to most marine life due to high salinity ...