Icy Death

For the final edition I am going to talk about a ocean killer that isn't a creature, but more of an anomaly. What I am talking about is known as brinciles, which look like a giant icicles going from the ocean floor to the frozen surface in the colder parts of the world.. They form in calm conditions when there is a big difference in the temperature in the water and the air above the frozen surface. The warmer water takes a convection current to the surface and freezes, and with the massive amount of salt in the water, the freezing forces the salt into channels that are focused downwards towards the ocean floor. The water freezes in the channels and continues to force the salt downwards until it reaches the ocean floor. Once it hits the floor it traps and freezes any living creature it touches in a case of ice. A brinciles can form and reach the ocean floor in a matter of hours, the one below only took 5-6 hours to reach the ocean floor.