#Brine pools

[jellyfishmakeoutparty]

so unfortunate that brine pools are so deadly because I would absolutely hold a pool party in one of those fuckers.

absolutely would be swallowed in the abysmal pool with the besties if I could

[snailfish-enthusiast]

The strange world of brine pools.

Deep under the sea, there are pools of water, separate from the rest of the ocean. Created when water seeps down through the ocean floor, mixing with long buried salt deposits, resulting in these highly saline pools.

The brine itself is uninhabitable for the vast majority of creatures. The lack of oxygen and extremely high salt content quickly sends just about any creature that enters them into toxic shock.

Still, these pools are oases of life on the sparsely populated abyssal plane. The mineral-rich water provides much-needed nutrients to life surrounding these toxic waters.

[themesopelagiczone]

earth fact time. in the deep ocean there are things called brine pools, which are essentially lakes of water separate from the ocean water. they're formed when water seeping through the ocean floor mixes with salt deposits, so the actual brine pools themselves are too salty and too toxic for most things to live in. but because they're so mineral rich, there's a bunch of really cool things living around them!

some examples include mussels, crabs, echinoderms, and sea cucumbers.

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[raustenacious]

I think being a brine pool would be nice

[etakeh]

"Jacuzzi of despair" - a brine pool *in* the ocean.

an area of super-saline water that most animals can't live in.

like a salty tar pit.

[miloadoniswrites13]

Death Pool

Shoot in, shoot out, shoot in, shoot out. That’s what the hungry eel was doing. Every time he shot into the brine pool he felt his energy being drained, the eel having to shoot right back out before he could grab something to eat. He was so hungry, no other aquatic life had dared to travel close to the pool of death… But he couldn’t leave. 

He had to eat. He had to get food, he had to feed himself. He shot back into the brine, feeling his gills burn as he tried to grab anything within the thick, murky water. He thrashed, unable to take the intense pain shooting through his body, the eel beginning to realize he couldn’t swim, his body seizing up. 

He thrashed and squirmed, sinking further into the brine, trying desperately to launch himself up, trying desperately to survive. His gills were desperately trying to suck in the salty filled water, his thrashing and jerking slowing… slowing… slowing… until finally, his body seized up, eyes stuck open and his body stuck in his coiled, struggling pose. He was reduced to the scraps he’d been trying to steal from the Death Pool, left for one of his own to fish him out for a meal. 

[corvidaedaze]

Inktober day 17: salty

Deep in the ocean there are pools of extra salty water that few fish can enter, but the hagfish will go in but it is too salty and they sometimes go into toxic shock and become knots

[eddieintheocean]

i am. lost in the soup

[sixpenceee]

Swimming in a brine pool | source

[indescriptparadigm]

After a small hiatus to complete my band Scent of Steam’s new album Transmute, I am back! I had a lot of fun with the inkwork on this piece.

Print for sale, DM if interested!

  Ink, charcoal, pastel and water on 14" x 11" canvas.

[bctoastyyy]

>> PORTAL ACCIDENT(Dead Fish Boy AU) (prequel to Scales and Edges)

GHOST ZONE >> Dead Sea

Similar to the Ghost Zone, the Dead Sea is a world of the undead. It’s vast and confusing. It heavily resembles the many biomes of the ocean and sea trenches, but its otherworldly nature pulls it apart. (Basically,,,think of the ghost zone is like the ocean instead of space concept) 

FENTON THERMOS >> Fenton Fish Stick

It looks like a fishing pole but instead of a line out the top it is a harpoon. At the other end there is a spool of twine in a reel case with a spinning handle (y’know the ones,,,that you reel with on fishing poles,,,that) that ends in a net for catching and holding sea monster cores. Also yes hehe I had to name it this.

ACCIDENT >>

The Fenton Brine Pool was not actually a brine pool per se, but a synthetic hot-tub-like hole in the Fentons' lab designed to replicate the deadly conditions of one. They built it in the hopes to create a way into the hidden underworld of the sea- ever fascinated by sea monsters. It was as a way to study them and as a way to prove their existence…sea monsters are said to be creatures from beyond the grave born of souls lost at sea.

Though they’d been trying to create the right conditions for the portal to work for years, nothing seemed close enough. One night after a particularly brutal failure Danny snuck into the lab to snoop around by himself. His parents had been holed upstairs for days, dejected, and gone to bed early that night. His sister was in her room studying to apply for some mentorship so hard he swears she was in another plane of existence entirely. 

Danny knew the thing was dangerous, it was designed to mimic the inhabitable conditions of actual brine pools for crying out loud, so he knew to keep away from the edges of the pool. He was hardly dressed for the occasion as he’d only put on the top half of the wetsuit-hazmat amalgamate his parents insisted they all wear due to it being very lame even though he was alone and it was honestly too much of a hassle. He put on the gloves too but kept his jeans and sneakers on. 

He skirted around the hole in the floor, sticking around the flimsy and too spaced out ‘safety gate’ poles, more interested in the brine pool than potentially finding out what went wrong with it- his parents were the scientists here, not him, so if they hadn’t figured it out then he doubted he would. Fresh eyes and a second opinion never hurt though, but like hell he would ever share with his parents his mild interest, they’d go nuts and blow it out of proportion. And besides, he wasn’t here for the supposed ‘undead sea creatures’ part anyway- that was more Sam’s thing -he was here because of the nature of the synthetic brine pool. He was fascinated by the sea in a way his parents weren’t- like how people were space buffs -and had been getting increasingly more curious about it.

While he wasn’t watching his feet he almost tripped on the cables spiderwebbed across the ground and clumped into a thick plug. Oh. The stupid thing wasn’t plugged in all the way. Why something like this even needed to be plugged into an outlet in the first place was beyond him, but he crouched down to tighten it anyway. But then stopped and followed the cord over to the far wall where the physical wall outlet rested. It was plugged in fine over there, but that’s not what got his attention. 

There were three buckets filled to the brim with different glowing substances. He vaguely knew what they were, waste from all the different chemicals and experiments his parents had attempted before- but he was pretty sure they shouldn’t be out in the open or even near each other…who knows what could happen if they like reacted together or something. Normally his parents disposed of these better. 

Well, they were sleeping and he didn’t feel comfortable letting all of the unknown and potentially dangerous substances mingle together, so he groaned and picked up the bucket closest to him filled with brightly glowing green goop. It was more liquidy than he thought, however, and some of it sloshed over the lip onto the shirt of his wet-hazmat suit and the floor. “Shit, shit, shit.” Oh, he was thankful he’d at least put on the top half of the suit, he didn't want to know what that stuff would have done to him without that layer of ‘protection.’ 

But he did make a mess on the floor and- oh no, he’d gotten some of it in the other buckets. Panicking, he picked up the one filled with orange sludge that was beginning to foam from the drops of green that’d splashed into it in his other hand and rushed away from the third bucket. He needed to separate these now before they all reacted together. But then he tripped on the plug he’d fixed earlier. He’d forgotten to tuck it back into the floor panel to make the floor more flush!

Both of the buckets flew out of Danny’s hands as he tumbled to his knees, and clunked onto the ground splashing the contents all over him and all over the circuits and pool. “Oh, no, no, no!” he yelped and quickly rose, trying in vain to get the crud off of him, but stopping in his tracks as he noticed the brine pool bubbling and smoking. “That can’t be- Woah!” Suddenly the wires below him sparked and crackled causing him to stumble forward. His foot slipped in one of the puddles and he fell headfirst into the pool.

After passing out, floating in a sea of greens and blues, he eventually woke up. Not sure how long, but that didn’t matter much. His throat was raw…he’d been screaming. A lot, probably. Everything hurt from the outside leading deep within his body too, and it all felt wrong.  But that wasn’t the only thing that felt wrong, his current environment was causing a rising panic. 

It’s not that he didn’t know where he was, dazed as he was. He knew exactly where he was, immediately. 

The Dead Sea- it had to be.

How he hadn’t gotten attacked by something floating still like he had been, he had no clue, but having absolutely no desire to be there any longer, he turned himself around sharply like he were swimming in a normal pool of water. Instead of his parent’s brine pool, or whatever hell world the Dead Sea was.

He managed to propel himself back up through the portal that was thankfully close and easy to spot, and clambered out of the pool. It was a feat that he was even alive after something like that…though it was definitely understandable that when he tried to stand he doubled over and got sick several times before succeeding. He was definitely ignoring the sea sludge and glowing contents he’d coughed up.

Danny managed to crawl and stumble his way over to the more standard basement portion of the lab and into the bathroom. He beelined for the toilet and coughed up whatever was left, and then turned the tap on at the sink. When he looked up, the reflection in the mirror was not of himself, it was of a horrible and creepy creature with bright green glowing eyes. 

And that’s when he realized he’d become a sea monster. His hands were clawed with four fingers that were held together with webs. He was covered in scales and fins, he was most definitely glowing, and he also most definitely had a tail and spines on his back. His hair was damp and white, his ears pointed and long, and his eyes were the color of the awful pool he had fallen into. Bright green slit eyes were set in a dark hollow ring, it was terrifying.  After deciding he needed help, he sneaked and stumbled out of the house and made his way through the pouring rain to Tucker’s house. His parents were home, but he was terrified to see them- for a multitude of reasons. His sister was busy and probably wouldn’t hear him at her door. Sam’s house was a no-go, her parents didn’t like him on a normal day. Besides, he’d really like the presence of his best friend from childhood, his brother of sorts. Tucker’s house it was. Danny wasn’t sure what time it was, but that hardly mattered, he just hoped Tucker would be there for him.

[spearxwind]

Can anyone from challenger deep survive in a brine pool? Even if just for a moment? Brine pool

Ohhh, probably!! Brine pools are deadly mostly due to their salinity and the fact that they're anoxic, so they can send creatures into toxic shock. If they're able to hold their breath they should be able to chill in there for a moment :]

Graves would be especially suited for this as well since they've got the rare trait where they are able to breathe air and water, but can also close their spiracles (their water intake) if necessary so they could chill in a brine pool for as long as they could hold their breath. Also, Hades would not be immune to the water being anoxic, but he'd be immune to the toxic shock from the sulfides in it

I actually had a super cool idea way back where someone would have to hold their breath and hide inside a brine pool for a huge creature searching for them to pass them by. That has 100% happened to Graves before

[vialae]

Carry one of the tadpoles around in a little plastic bag of brine like it’s a goldfish won at the fairground

[phocids]

when are people going to get that what's scary about the ocean isn't what lives in there its literally the water

[putting-mr-dna-places]

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