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I think you might be referring to geo-thermal vents - also called hydrothermal vents, and black smokers. These are underwater spots where extremely hot water (up to 400 degrees Celsius) issues from beneath the sea floor. Once thought to be too hot (and too far removed from sunlight) to allow life near them they have been found to be home to thriving communities of newly discovered species- the first to be discovered which don't take their energy directly from the sun.

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