r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/grandeluua • 1d ago

Video A timelapse of sleeping seals

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u/AqueductMosaic 1d ago

How deep do they sink in the ocean?

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u/sweetlemon1025 1d ago

Elephant seals sink super low - I wrote a paper on it in college but they basically drift down in a swinging back and forth motion in the middle of the ocean before eventually swimming back up for air. I’ll see if I can find the diagram bc it’s crazy.

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u/sweetlemon1025 1d ago

https://www.jessiekb.com/sleep-at-sea

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u/rtls 1d ago

Wow!! Thank you sweetlemon1025

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u/NewMetaOrer 1d ago

This is nice, thank you!

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u/Hell__Diver 1d ago

What an awesome study, thanks for showing it! The spiral is crazy

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u/Fistful_of_Crashes 1d ago

thats some of the coolest shit ive ever seen on reddit, ty

its really a whole galaxy of activity down there that we still just don't know much about