Deep Sea Adventure

We present you Deep Sea Adventure: current research as an entertaining video adventure.

To unravel the secrets of the largest ecosystem on earth, the researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology are studying its smallest inhabitants: single-celled organisms in the sea. And although they are small, they are powerful! Here you will learn a lot about why we are so fascinated by these tiny sea creatures.

The video and comic series centers around a team of three marine researchers who explore the world's oceans on the research ship “Tiefsee”. We live in the information age and believe that most of the world has been explored. Not at all! When Marina, Max and Molly set sail, there is always a lot to discover. The map of our knowledge has many blank spots. The vast majority of the world's oceans have not yet been explored. With Deep Sea Adventure, we want to show you how important the smallest sea creatures are for the entire ecosystem and ultimately for our planet.

Chemosynthesis – The Movie

Chemosynthesis – The Comic

The Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology employs over 100 full time academic and about 50 non-academic staff. The Institute investigates the role, variety and characteristics of micro-organisms that occur in aquatic environments, i.e. the sea, and which are responsible in a decisive way for geochemical processes. A focus of the research rests in the marine sediments, which are sites of particularly intense and varied microbial processes. For the measurement of compounds at the surface and inside the sediment high spatial resolution analytical techniques are needed.