At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/chinese-submersible-craters-pacificc-ocean/ …. a Chinese submersible has plotted a field of massive craters in the Pacific, teeming with hydrogen feeding life forms. The hydrogen itself is seeping out of the sea bed. It is, in effect, a hydrothermal field, NE of Papua New Guinea. The location is far from a tectonic plate boundary which has caused scientists to reinterpret such cratering. Mainstream has worked on the assumption such vents are situated at plate boundaries, or subduction zones. Yet, twenty massive craters, plunging 130 m in depth, represent a pipe swarm. A geological formation not driven by magma discharge but by chemical reactions in the Earth’s Mantle. The hydrogen rich plumes are generated by serpentineisation – a process where sea water reacts with Mantle material to form serpentine minerals. Serpentine rocks can be found on Cornwall’s Lizard peninsular, for example. They are usually a dark green in colouration. The craters, or vents, are not barren, as one might have suspected. Other vents teem with life and the same situation occurs in the new craters. They are home to a thriving ecosystem that includes shrimps, lobsters, anemones, and tube worms.
Robert comments, scientists have long theorised that hydrothermal vents could be the sites where life on Earth first emerged. The high hydrogen flux is interesting as VN Larin, in his book on what he called, the Hydridic Earth, claimed hydrogen leaks out of the interior of the Earth. Closer to the surface of the Earth, hydrogen is found in the form of methane and silane. C Warren Hunt, at https://www.eearthk.org/article03/ … commenting on Larin’s idea hydrogen was bountiful in the interior of Earth, said that silane on first contact with water or oxygen is destroyed but the methane continues to migrate upwards. A second difference is that methane only yields gases when burned [H2O and Si02]. Silane gives off gas and solid silica [H2O and Si02]. Silicon dioxide, Robert adds, That is quartz, sand, and some sedimentary rocks – on the surface of the Earth. Silica is also a major component of flint we may note and flints can be found in chalk formations. These are thought to originate on the sea bed.
In this instance the hydrogen flux is found under water, on the sea bed – another product of methane and reactions with silane?