A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the deepest gas hydrate cold seep on record, and it happens to be teeming with animal life.
The Freya gas hydrate mounds were discovered during the Ocean Census Arctic Deep EXTREME24 expedition, led by researchers from UiT The Arctic University of Norway and other partners. A water column gas flare alerted the researchers to unusual activity deep below their ship, prompting them to send a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to investigate.
There, they encountered exposed mounds of a