Chapter 265 Have you really eaten it?
"Anchor, why is the screen completely black?"
"Yeah, why can't I see anything?"
Xiao Peng explained, "To conserve energy and ensure working time, the submersible doesn't turn on the lights during its descent. Basically, you won't be able to see anything below 300 meters. Of course, to open your eyes, I'll adjust my work schedule."
After he finished speaking, he picked up the intercom and said, "Xiao Zhou, have the ROV turn on the lights and dive, and slow down the dive speed. I want my friends in the live broadcast room to see the situation on the seabed."
Xiao Zhou's voice came: "Boss Xiao, we haven't reached the deep sea yet. There's nothing here except sea water!"
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "Then let them see the sea water!"
Xiao Zhou said 'hmm': "Okay!"
After he answered, a monitor suddenly lit up, but there was nothing inside except seawater. Moreover, the seawater looked turbid, with a lot of white dirt.
Xiao Peng explained, "The Mediterranean is surrounded by land on three sides. Marine life needs phosphates and nitrates to survive in the ocean, and the Mediterranean is relatively short of both. Therefore, fish resources in the Mediterranean are not very abundant. Most fish live in shallow waters within 200 meters. The current depth of the ROV... Let me check." He glanced at a monitor and said, "We've reached 370 meters, so naturally there aren't many marine life."
The commentator asked: "Host, can we see big whales there?"
"Any fool knows there are no whales in the Mediterranean!"
"The above person said, dolphins are also whales! Killer whales are from the family Delphinidae, order Odontoceti, in the order Cetacea!"
“But there aren’t even killer whales in the Mediterranean right now!”
"It's true. A few days ago, the news reported that Italian tourists spotted a small group of killer whales."
"It might have come in from the Strait of Gibraltar. The food here isn't plentiful, and it's not a good living environment."
Watching the people arguing in the comments, Xiao Peng coughed twice. "It's true that there aren't many whales in the Mediterranean, just like seeing a killer whale makes the news. But it turns out that wasn't the case. The ancient Mediterranean was different from today. Back then, the Mediterranean was warm and shallow, and it was the cradle of whale evolution. So the ecological environment of the Mediterranean in ancient times must have been different from today."
"In Western countries, there are two books that have played a very important role in the development of their civilization. One is Aristotle's Biologia, and the other is Pliny's Natural History. Pliny is very interesting. He was an ancient Roman aristocrat over 2,000 years ago and also a great military commander. Of the two fleets of ancient Rome, he and the fleet he led were responsible for maritime security in the western half of the country."
"Pliny is remembered not for his military prowess but for his Natural History, a 37-volume work that was the first encyclopedia in the Western world to cover the entire natural world. Varro and Celsus had written encyclopedias before him, but none were as vast or as impressive as the Natural History, which covered European geography, astronomy, meteorology, flora and fauna, minerals, oceanography, culture and art, and so much more."
"Why do I mention this book? Because many people don't agree with it. In it, he wrote about seeing killer whales attacking gray whale mothers and calves in the Mediterranean. Although killer whales do like to attack gray whale calves for food, there are no traces of large baleen whales like gray whales in the Mediterranean. In 2016, a paper in the journal Progress in Marine Biology directly refuted the content of the Natural History, because none of the known baleen whale species in the world use the Mediterranean as a calving ground. They believed that Pliny made a cognitive error and may have mistaken dolphins for whales."
"But within three years, these scientists were dealt a heavy blow. Archaeologists discovered the ruins of an ancient Roman fish processing facility. Besides traces of large fish like tuna, they also found ancient whale bones, belonging to gray whales and right whales. This suggests that baleen whales did inhabit the Mediterranean two thousand years ago. It's just that the ecological environment has changed over the past two thousand years. Huh? Stop with the nonsense! Look, we've made a discovery!"
Xiao Peng pointed the live camera at a monitor and said, "Did you see that? There's a sudden drop below? This is the slope of the submarine canyon, extending down for over 3,000 meters. It's also the gateway to the sea. If you're lucky, you might see all sorts of bizarre creatures. Deep-sea creatures have two characteristics: one is 'ugly' and the other is 'big'... Holy crap!"
Xiao Peng suddenly cursed and grabbed the radio, shouting, "Xiao Zhou! Stop diving!"
After a while, Xiao Zhou's voice came from the intercom: "It's stopped! Any problem?"
Xiao Peng shouted, "Turn the camera right, slowly. Look at what that white thing is up there."
"White?" Xiao Zhou operated the ROV lens to rotate slowly, and several white transparent bags appeared in the lens.
Seeing this scene, people in the barrage began to complain: "Damn, what a shock! I thought it was something else, it turned out to be just a few plastic bags!"
"Are you an idiot? Plastic products have been found at such a deep seabed. How serious has our ocean pollution become? The host is trying to get us to protect the environment and love nature."
"As expected of my husband! He's so conscious!"
"Alas, plastic particles have even been found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, which shows how serious the problem of environmental pollution is now!"
Xiao Peng coughed dryly after seeing this. "Uh, your automatic imagination is really amazing. You even thought of environmental protection? But I tell you, you are all wrong! Xiao Zhou, zoom in a little closer!"
When the camera zoomed in, the comments went crazy: "What is this?"
"Is it a squid?"
"What kind of squid is this? Why does it look like this?"
"I thought it was an underwater butterfly!"
Xiao Peng explained with a smile, "You're incredibly lucky! This is a very rare giant fin squid. It's a very rare deep-sea squid. There are several species of this species, and their defining characteristic is their large fins, with long, thin filaments at the ends of their tentacles and tentacles. This one isn't very big, appearing to be about a meter and a half long, and its tentacles are over ten times their body length! They have such long tentacles so they can wait for prey to come to them, entangle them, and then hunt! This is a very rare creature, and I have a feeling we'll have good luck today! Xiao Zhou, move the camera closer so the people in the live studio can get a good look at this rare and beautiful creature!"
The barrage room was filled with comments, and one comment caught Xiao Peng's interest: "Is this delicious? How many shredded squid can you make with it?"
Damn, you are worthy of being a Chinese. You think about eating everything you see first!
"Believe me, it tastes delicious! It's more tender than the squid we usually eat."
Everyone: “…”
Have you really tried it? You're the real ruthless one!
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