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in the gulf of mexico
these eruptions also release a super
salty liquid
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brian
it’s heavier than seawater and it
accumulates in great pools on the
seafloor
it’s difficult to make sense of the
sight
a lake of concentrated salt water
15 meters deep at the bottom of the sea
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around its margin perhaps even more
strangely
there is a profusion of life
giant muscles that can live and grow for
a century or more
pack tightly together dwarfing the
shrimps and squat lobsters
that feed around them
cutthroat eels scavengers
come to the shores of the brian lake in
search of something edible
some even venture into the brine
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spending too long in it can send an eel
into
toxic shock
his only hope is to rise above it
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it manages to escape
others are not so lucky
the brine embalms their bodies
and the casualties of decades
accumulate around the margins
