There's billions of life forms on there. Say a shrimp dies and isn't eaten up or anything by scavengers, could it pickle over time? The way we pickle meats in a salt brine? The ocean is a salt brine in itself.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

there are places in the sea that it so briney, that it kills most organisms , but usually extremophiles can survive said salt concentrations and can feed on carcasses, usually halophiles, most are archaea and some bacteria.

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