23 Creepy and Disturbing Facts about the World’s Oceans
The ocean might not be outer space, but it surely is still alluring.
Published 2 years ago in Creepy
The ocean might not be outer space, but it surely is still alluring.
According to the internet, humans have only explored around 20 percent of the world's oceans, and thanks to Reddit we've collected 25 extremely disturbing facts about it.
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“I remember watching a YouTube interview with a military diver. He described how when you’re doing a covert op you spend a lot of time just underwater doing nothing with no lights on until it’s time to move. He specifically mentioned how he had to get used to having large things bump into him in the pitch black.” -Freaked_The_Eff_Out
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“The sonar we use for deep sea mapping really screws up a number of species especially whales, dolphins and porpoises. Imagine walking around and a tornado alarm decibel-level noise triggers right next to you. We do that every time we use that high-powered sonar and it basically f's up their own sonar abilities causing them to be unable to communicate and navigate.” -Reyltjj
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“There are perfectly-preserved shipwrecks from ancient Greece preserved at the bottom of the Black Sea. The water is so deep that it becomes anoxic (oxygen free), which preserves organic materials like wood. Shipwrecks are cool, but I find the phenomenon a little disturbing, since there is probably no life down there.” -colorforge
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“The ocean is blue because all the other pigments are absorbed. So after a certain distance down everything thing becomes a monotone blue color, unless you have some other light source. The freaky part is if a diver gets cut underwater the blood looks black, like ink. All the red has long since been absorbed so there’s no wavelengths left to show you a red color when you bleed.” -Lord_of_the_Canals
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“I tell new scuba divers this: The ocean doesn’t care about you. It’s not actively trying to kill you. But it will do a lot of things on its own that will absolutely kill you if you’re not prepared and paying attention. I realize this could apply to any natural environment but it feels much more apt when talking about the ocean. One wave that you weren’t prepared for can make your day pretty bad. For the ocean it’s just business as usual.” -deleteduser
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“There are parts of the ocean which are dead, no oxygen in the water which means nothing can survive, no fish no plankton nothing at all. They are spreading exponentially. Whilst they are tiny now and have been. At the rate of growth. They’ll cause serious problems before the end of the century.” -Emergency-Tiger4339
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“Hawley Harvey Crippen should have dumped his wife's remains in the ocean because not an ounce of food goes to waste including the bones. If you need to get rid of a mass grave don't bury them, dump them at sea and the entire body will be eaten. Which will actually be beneficial to the ecosystem as a whole. We shouldn't be burying people, but dumping them at sea.” -TwistedDecayingFlesh
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“We don't really know what's in it. I can say that for thousands of years we drew sea monsters believing they lived in it. Surprising a lot of stuff we found in those pictures were in the ocean. (Giant Squid recently.) Just makes you think what else is actually down there that we don't know about.” -ghigoli
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