Study on Oxygen Content in the Deep Sea
from the Cape Basin off the west coast of southern Africa, from water depths between 1,000 and 2,500 meters. Due to the ocean currents, the area is one of the most biologically productive ones: Cold, nutrient-rich [...] study is that the depletion of oxygen is not limited to water depths of a few hundred to a thousand meters but has now also been detected at the bottom of the ocean”, says co-author Dr. Matthias Zabel from [...] time. “Today, oxygen-free zones are found on the shallow shelf up to a water depth of a few hundred meters, that is at the transition from the continental shelf to the open ocean. During the Ice Age, on the
