Cayman Trough

A sea star at a hydrothermal vent in the Cayman Trough, more than 3 miles below the sea's surface.

The Southampton team are sending back new images from the Cayman Trough, including this as yet unidentified seastar.

The Cayman Trough in the Caribbean is the world’s deepest undersea volcanic rift.

Next, the team will compare the marine life in the abyss of the Cayman Trough with organisms found at other deep-sea vents.

However, if the Cayman Trough animals are very different from those existing in other parts of the Earth's oceans then isolation will be considered more important.

The text of the treaty establishes a boundary in the waters above the Cayman Trough that is 175 nautical miles long and unusually complex.

The deepest vents so far discovered lie almost 5,000 metres down in the Cayman Trough, an area of the Caribbean Sea.

Elsewhere, glass sponges have been found forming reefs but those observed so far in the Cayman Trough have been solitary.

Firstly, a robotic submarine called Autosub6000 enabled the team to map the seafloor of the Cayman Trough in fine detail.

The Cayman Trough is a deep rift in the seafloor that runs east-west between Cuba and Jamaica.

The islands are located on the Cayman Rise which forms the northern margin of the Cayman Trough.

Further movement on this fault system created the Cayman Trough, although at that time the future microplate was still firmly attached to the Caribbean Plate.

Sea anemones and vent shrimps at the Beebe hydrothermal vent in the Cayman Trough.

This site is located on the 110 km long, ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Rise within the Cayman Trough.

But it was only three years ago that vents were first detected in the Cayman Trough, a deep trench formed by the boundary between two tectonic plates.

Rock and paleomagnetic measurements have been made on a set of 54 basalts dredged from 17 stations located within the central valley of the Cayman Trough.

One researcher placed half of a pig carcass within the Cayman Trough near the hydrothermal vents to see what scavengers it might attract, Thaler said.

The presence of a separate Gonâve Microplate was first suggested by the analysis of sidescan sonar results from the Cayman Trough.

In March the James Cook will head to the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean, the deepest known section of oceanic ridge.

The black smokers, named for how they spew out an iron sulfide compound that's black, sit 3.1 miles deep in the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean.

Members of the team will continue to conduct research in the Cayman Trough before concluding their expedition in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on April 21.

In addition to the HyBIS vehicle, the researchers used a robot submarine called Autosub6000 to survey the seafloor of the Cayman Trough.

Deploying a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) in the Cayman Trough, a giant underwater canyon, they stumbled across a previously-unknown site nearly 5000m below the surface.

In 1988, the US submarine USS Montana has an encounter with an unidentified submerged object and sinks near the Cayman Trough.