How is this possible? The fact is that all over the world in the deep layers of the soil at the bottom of the oceans there are dangerous natural burials, they are called gas hydrates. It is a specific compound made from methane and water. It turns out that we are living on a giant bomb. For the first time, the threat of an oceanic explosion was discussed in the late 1980s. Then, in the monthly "Priroda", Lev Pavlovich Zonnenshain, an employee of the Institute of Oceanology of the USSR, first described the observation of gas emissions in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the scientist, these were huge flaming torches half a kilometer high. So should we be afraid of a giant underwater bomb? Can oceans blow up the planet?
Oceanologists say that the explosion of the World Ocean may become the cause of the planet's death. According to the researchers, in the near future from the underwater depths, a huge amount of gas (a mixture of methane and hydrogen sulfide) may be released into the air. Hundreds of tons of these substances are the result of the vital activity of the inhabitants of the Earth, and it seems that the planet's storage facilities are already overflowing.
Gas accumulates and these conditions must exist for a long time (let's say 500 thousand years), and when it breaks through, a big cotton is obtained.
So large that it could destroy the planet's atmosphere.
For thousands of years, gas has accumulated in the deep layers of the soil at the bottom of the oceans. Columns of water added tightness to these huge reservoirs, due to global warming, geophysical instruments over the past years record a constant increase in gas pressure on the earth's crust.
If the gas hydrate passes from a stable state to an unstable one, then it increases greatly in volume. It's like opening a bottle of champagne. When a very large amount of gases is dissolved in water, then it begins to lose its density (such experiments were carried out in Russia and abroad).
Millions of cubic meters of hydrogen sulfide are looking for a way out in the stagnant basins of the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and gas leaks there occur with increasing frequency.
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Captains and experienced sailors know that there are cases when a large amount of gas rises from the bottom of the ocean, and if a ship passes at that time, it can sink (there have already been such cases).
Here is just one of the few pictures. In this accidental frame, the water from the Mediterranean Sea first boils and then explodes, the sailors barely have time to step aside
Geologists who study the underwater part of the earth's crust periodically record very irregular eruptions and so far in small quantities.
According to preliminary forecasts, an explosion of hydrogen sulphide in the inland seas will lead to local disasters and environmental pollution within a radius of 100 to 1000 km, but there are also much more severe scenarios for the development of events.
Some perturbations may occur in the water column of the World Ocean. Currents may change. the regime of interaction between the ocean and the atmosphere can change, which will lead to global climate changes.
The US Commission for Arctic Research has released a report on the critical amount of methane under the Arctic shelf. A mixture of methane and air is explosive at concentrations of 5-15%, if methane breaks through, explosions and fires will destroy most of life on Earth, and the planet's atmosphere will become carbon dioxide, which means that no species that breathes oxygen will be able to survive.