Marine scientists indeed call a deep-sea brine pool in the Gulf of Mexico (or Gulf of America, per U.S. President Donald Trump) a "Jacuzzi of Despair," or "Hot Tub of Despair." ...

A woman in Washington, D.C., may call it one thing. A guy living off a main square in Mexico City might call it another. But a tug of war over referring to the immense body of water off the coast ...

Sometimes called the Hot Tub of Despair, the lake is what scientists call an underwater brine pool.The poot itself is full of methane, making it a toxic pocket of seawater that kills almost ...

The brine pools were found to contain water up to 10 times saltier than regular seawater. In addition, their severe anoxic conditions make them so toxic, that any marine creatures that enter are ...

While it may seem like a harmless pool of cloudy water to the naked eye, the Hot Tub of Despair is so deadly that almost anything that enters is instantly killed.

Context. Marine scientists indeed call a deep-sea brine pool off the eastern coast of Mexico a "Jacuzzi of Despair" or "Hot Tub of Despair." While it's true that most organisms that enter the ...