Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24.205.42.221-20170604214031/@comment-173.224.183.206-20170812211235

the arctic is lovely at sea and the change to an arctic biome is a slow transition. its not like you just come up to the ice edge and there you are. you have lots of various ice and sea states, oh and it does snow in the ocean especially in the arctic. the interface between surface and up welling warm, makes life abundant and as it dies the benthic zone experiences a snow fall of these dead things from above. life lives on the bottom and on the top attached to the ice pack so the surfaces that life inhabits are above you and below you some of the critters in the ice pack are as vicious as any you will find in the deeps. one thing to think on is under water in the arctic it is so full of life your visual range is very limited most of the time you have clear areas but your mostly going to have a fog of microorganisms to try and see through. ice burgs tend to have complex topographies as they melt so there is far more volume for life than just a sheet above and a sheet below. some ice burgs take centuries to get to the ice edge so things have lots of time to make homes. the wind and water sculpts things into fantastic shapes above and below the water line so even on the ice its going to be interesting. hmm might add that ice is not an easy thing to live in the ice pack changes all the time the wind and sea breaks it and reformes it. the ice under water melts faster than the ice in the air and burgs roll making new landscapes both above and below. and the arctic doesnt actually get that much snow, the little it does get just blows around a whole lot. if you are from the planes on any continent that gets snow you can imagine what its like in a place with no trees where most of the snow doesn't melt from year to year.

I like the idea, however its an easy sell because i spent thirty years in the arctic sailing the ice pack. it would be like going home to me.