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... that after Tjeerd van Andel first saw life on the deep sea floor he described it as a 'little paradise in the ... sea floor desert'?
Source: Naomi Oreskes, quoting from Van Andel's diary in: Oreskes, Naomi (2021). "7. Painting Projects White: The Discovery of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents". In, Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean. University of Chicago Press. p. 328.' What they found has been described as “one of the most exciting devel-opments since the beginning of the study of oceanography.”... Van Andel kept a personal diary, and just before turning in on the evening of February 17, 1977, he wrote: "In the middle of this ... barren vastness ... a small oasis ... What produced this little paradise in the ... sea floor desert?" https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226732411-008
