Soranic t1_jaafguq wrote on February 28, 2023 at 12:37 AM

Reply to comment by Naive_Composer2808 in ELI5: Why is it that when fertilizers make their way into waterways, all the oxygen disappears, killing the fish? by Psychological-Dog994

Since these zones are usually dead anyway, could we detonate a nuke at the bottom of the dead zone so it mixes everything?

CBus660R t1_jaavpnb wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:37 AM

That won't do anything except make it radioactive too. The dead zones are in shallow waters, they're not out past the continental shelf where the depths are in the thousands of feet deep.