©The Oxygen Minimum Zone: Where Fish Thrive With Almost No Air. Image by Orest Sv via Pexels Imagine plunging into the vast blue ocean, where sunlight fades and the world grows eerily silent.

A team of scientists is preparing to dive deep into the depths of the Indian Ocean — into a “Midnight Zone” where light barely reaches but life still thrives. Scientists from the British-led ...

The Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ), or 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Oman covers a majority of the waterway. (Google Maps) Dead zones are considered dead because they can't sustain marine life.

However, that does not mean that other oxygen minimum zones will not grow, says Henry Ruhl from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. He says the Pacific zone is particularly ...