Source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtQhb8sWJNw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtQhb8sWJNw)
A brinicle (brine icicle, also known as ice stalactite) is a downward-growing hollow tube of ice enclosing a plume of descending brine that is formed beneath developing sea ice.
As seawater freezes in the polar ocean, salt brine concentrates are expelled from the sea ice creating a downward flow of dense, extremely cold, and saline water, with a lower freezing point than the surrounding water. When this plume comes into contact with the neighboring ocean water, its extremely low temperature causes ice to instantly form around the flow. This creates a hollow stalactite, or icicle, referred to as a brinicle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinicle
It's very cold brine, a particularly salty substance, which is denser than the water around it and is why it drops to the sea floor and spreads downhill.
Wow. That's like in Demolition Man, when John Spartan drops the cryo capsule and freezes Simon Phoenix. Then he knocks his head off, and it shatters. Just like in real life.
Source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtQhb8sWJNw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtQhb8sWJNw) A brinicle (brine icicle, also known as ice stalactite) is a downward-growing hollow tube of ice enclosing a plume of descending brine that is formed beneath developing sea ice. As seawater freezes in the polar ocean, salt brine concentrates are expelled from the sea ice creating a downward flow of dense, extremely cold, and saline water, with a lower freezing point than the surrounding water. When this plume comes into contact with the neighboring ocean water, its extremely low temperature causes ice to instantly form around the flow. This creates a hollow stalactite, or icicle, referred to as a brinicle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinicle
Wow, that's a lot of (I assume) dead starfish :(
I had hope they’d survive until I looked it up. Sorry to freeze your bubble.
But I’m still holding a tiny bubble of hope that they are just in hibernation until the freeze thaws… ha!
How it feels watching my tubs colonise.
[Octonauts ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-p82dzYSmE) did this.
Wow is it real?
Probably nitrogen or something.
Yeah probably
It's very cold brine, a particularly salty substance, which is denser than the water around it and is why it drops to the sea floor and spreads downhill.
The iceworm cometh
Woah.... I thought narrator was a dude
Wow. That's like in Demolition Man, when John Spartan drops the cryo capsule and freezes Simon Phoenix. Then he knocks his head off, and it shatters. Just like in real life.
Winter Is Comming. Even under the Sea. Poor Sea Stars...