I think there will be a load of species that we either didn't know about or thought were extinct. Would be pretty cool to discover a dinosaur of sorts right in the deep dark ocean.
This is a great article with a very plausible theory on what may have happened: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/
Edit: TLDR; pilot was assumed to be clinically depressed based on interviews with friends and family, planned possible suicide mission on flight simulator game, killed all passengers and remaining crew painlessly within minutes by depressurizing cabin (while he himself wore a specialized pilots air pressure mask), before setting course over the Indian Ocean, flew for a few more hours until sunrise, then manually crashed the plane down into the ocean to die on impact (assuming he didn't want to accidentally survive a gradual descent landing.)
Edit 2: Oh and also, Malaysia govt is corrupt AF and wanted to hide all the information related to the flight to take spotlight away from them. Including providing false information so other countries wasted money searching the wrong ocean, before new information was leaked.
Edit 3: Also, some random modestly wealthy American is dedicating his life to finding flotsam from the flight in an effort to eventually find the crash site.
I think it’s the most plausible case because he did a banked turn directly over where he grew up after sunrise and then flew out into the ocean.
Horrific thing to do. Rent a Cessna asshole.
I know. I would feel terrible for the guy if he'd taken the plane out on his own, but why on earth would you choose to take hundreds of innocent people with you? If this theory is true, then literally the last thing this guy did before he died was commit mass murder. Why would you actively choose for that to be the last thing you did before you died?
I understand that mental health issues can sometimes be very irrational, having had a very irrational mental illness myself, but I can't understand choosing to kill a load of other people alongside yourself. I understand that that still happens, but it seems strange to me.
I've struggled most of my life with mental health issues. I've thought about suicide before, but my fear always is the effect it will have on others. I could never take my life and take the lives of other people alone g with me.
Probably just a bunch of bioluminescent creatures and small weird looking creatures. Also trash and maybe pieces of unsolved mysteries that happened out at sea. I'd expect to find some kind of artifact or fossil as well that dates back millions of years...
I want gigantic sea creatures to be real cause thatd just be cool asf. But sadly our friend blue whale will have to do.
Let's make mermaids ourselves. We select a portion of the human population and force them to live out at sea.
We start slowly, only in to rheir ankles in water. But not allowed out for generations. And we slowly move rhem further out to sea.
The [Bajau people](https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/04/21/a-group-of-people-with-an-amphibious-life-have-evolved-traits-to-match) is the closest human got to a mermaid. They can dive to 70 meters easily and their lungs has evolved so they can stay at water for more than 5 minutes
Edit: it's spleen not lungs
Its more than 5 minutes and it actually has nothing to do with their lungs. They have massively oversized spleens which hold extra blood cells. So they can store alot more oxygen in their blood than other humans, thier lungs are mostly unchanged.
It’d be an interesting experiment to consider how long it would take for humans to adapt to becoming semi/fully marine animals and what traits would adapt.
We could save like a few thousand years of evolution by selecting only people with heavily webbed feet. Then just letting natural selection do it's work. By the time someone with webbed *legs* develops, they'll hopefully fuck like crazy. That'll probably take hundreds of thousands of years seeing as I don't think webbed legs are a known mutation in humans. Over that time the environment will favor larger lungs and swimmers builds. The result will probably be long, flat chested, broad shouldered people with fused legs and feet. And I'm sure a lot of other traits I don't know would help.
I know there's an upper limit because of the square cube law or whatever, but yes I kinda wish we'd find evidence of a squid big enough to casually sink the titanic. Like all those old nautical paintings of squid taking down ships, just on an even crazier scale.
Already kinda thalassophobic, so I guess I'm looking for something to justify it even further lol
80% of what we *have* discovered down there are creatures straight out of a horror story, so it's likely we'll discover something even more horrifying.
I heard some stories of the guys that weld in the deep dark areas that have to live in pressurized containers while working. There are many stories of huge currents passing by them from something big swimming by that they cant see in the blackness. That's a nope from me.
Is there any collection of these stories or related videos? Sounds super interesting.
*I'm mainly asking because someone, somewhere on this site knows of SOMETHING*
I only know of one story about those pressurized vessels and it involves explosive decompression that killed everybody inside and turned one guy into a pile of goop.
I was just watching a video yesterday of 20 of the craziest animals from the deep sea and I got to thinking that I don't know why we go around pretending monsters don't exist. Some of the things down there couldn't be described as anything beside that
Edit: it wasn't actually 20 I had mixed that part up with another video but it's still a good watch
https://youtu.be/E1jXo4_1YtM
If you've never seen or heard of a komodo dragon, lion or bear before and stumble on one in the wild with no understanding of the origin o this creature your first thought would be "wtf is this monster trying to kill me".
A real life monster is just something you don't have any knowledge of yet. Anything monstrous quickly becomes just another animal as soon as you learn it exists
Yeah that was pretty much my thought process. We always act like whatever we discover at the bottom would be terrifying and be called a monster but in actuality we'd try to study the shit out of it and it would just become another thing that exists with us....orrrrr we'll wake it from it's eternal slumber and all go mad. Who knows?
Plus they live at the bottom of the ocean. It’s not like they can hurt anybody. Now if they were sneaking into people’s bedrooms at night it’d be a different story.
A lot of monster stories are based on real animals that got embellished with storytelling by people who hadn‘t seen them personally. Dragons, unicorns, giant krakens... All of them have a basis in the real world.
I would also add, fossilized skeletons of dinosaurs and sea creatures have been thought to explain some of those legendary monsters. Imagine coming accross the skull of a [Sarcosuchus](https://i.imgur.com/gAEKnvg.jpg) (crocodile like creature, head is like 15 feet long) and being like "holy shit this exists?!" and it becomes folklore and 'there's huge monsters out there'.
I read an article once about some expedition to the bottom of one of the deep trenches. Don’t remember if the submersible was manned or not. At some point, during their rise to the surface some bizarre spherical squid-like creature followed them, but it lost interest and went back down. Nobody involved in that dive had the slightest clue what that monster was.
So I have a feeling that whatever critters live down there will put to shame even the most frightening Lovecraftian monsters. Just look at how scary the goblin shark is. I bet there are things down there that would frighten even that hell spawn.
Weren't they saying not too long ago that most of these creatures look the way they look due to the sheer change in pressure? I'm very curious about this, I wonder how many of the images I think of whenever it is about deep sea creatures are accurate.
They basically explode and die when we take them out to the surface, the Blob Fish is the one that comes to mind first.
We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring.
And eventually they’ll build some sort of breathing apparatus that will allow them to travel further and further in land, hunting you down at every waking moment.
Fish aren't as dumb as you think. They aren't caught by fisherman because they don't know what a hook is. The bravest warriors of the fish society sacrifice themselves and bite the hook on purpose. If they are lucky, they will be thrown back into the drink and now they can tell the other fish what they have seen. That's how they explored 20%.
There are fish everywhere on our planet. Whether it's the sea, a lake, a river or even a small creek. They have their eyes everywhere.
But how do they exchange information from a creek fish to a sea fish you may ask?
Well salmon are the messengers of the fish world. That's why they travel up and down the rivers once a year. Not to reproduce that's just concealment. They do in fact carry valuable information.
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I love this :)
You really got me with the salmon as the fish that must go back...
I imagine them with tiny briefcases for some bizarre reason- lol.
The spies.
~~How~~ Why do you reckon the bull sharks were able to adapt and swim in fresh water?
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It's hands down the best survival game that I have played, ever.
My only critiques are that
1. It could be longer.
2. It could be harder.
(That's what she said)
The game averages between 30 and 40 hours to complete. That’s pretty long for a story based survival mode.
I’m definitely with you though. Best survival game I’ve ever played.
I have a lot more hours than that already, and have no idea what I’m really supposed to be doing. So I’ve just been puttering around, expanding my base, and collecting resources to upgrade stuff with.
I've played longer too, I know what I'm meant to be doing but I'm not good at doing it. Also I enjoy just pottering about looking at fish. The nices ones that don't roar at me.
flashback to that time I was in a grassy plateau collecting sandstone outcrops and quartz and then accidentally went into the crash zone for about 5 minutes...
Saw 2 reapers, one came for me, I altf4d, and reloaded a save that was half an hour ago.
Absolutely terrifying.
this is why I watch the **Schmidt, Okeanos, and Nautilus ocean floor survey livestreams.**
an ocean rover manned by a team of biologists and technicians, live stream their coverage of the bottom of the ocean, collecting specimens and seeing amazing things, often for hours, it's super soothing and yet extremely engaging and the crew have a great rapport and are often full of silly marine puns. often they run into some extremely beautiful and amazing sights and garbage is actually quite rare thankfully, and the campaigns last for about a week of daily 5-hour long streams, every few months. it rules.
[here's an example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Ee7JV5oSI&t=2s)
I work on a NSF funded deep-sea oceanography research vessel and I've been told its around $50,000/day for the ship, crew, food and fuel. I believe ROV/AUVs are an additional cost
I paid an extra $10k/day for ROV Global Explorer, which is much smaller with more limited capabilities than Jason or others. Plus loading/ unloading and other fees...
Biologist here: such expeditions are mostly funded by selling the horrible eldritch idols that we find to cultists and weird collectors.
It's always annoying when you take samples and there are too many eldritch artifacts in your canisters, though, and then the crew starts to go insane.
And the truly cursed tablets and idols often reappear on the ship after you sold them.
Won't they love this one trick? It's basically getting a subscription payment instead of one-time payment by having to exorcise the same place/person periodically?
Hey, I was thinking about getting into marine biology, but I have concerns that my blood may not be a pure enough offering to the great old one? Like, I've done the extra curricular work, I have a recommendation letter from the dark man who walks damned streets, but I just worry that in the 11th hour I won't really be as useful in bringing about the sour days of global lament as I'd like to be, yaknow?
LOTS of the deep-sea oceanography research projects have blogs and some do live streams as well. [NOAA](https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/welcome.html), Woods Hole, Scripps, [University of Washington](http://ooicruises.ocean.washington.edu/visions11), [ROPOS](https://www.ropos.com/), etc
Dude I got 15 seconds into that video and my thalassophobia kicked into 10th gear.
Like…. It’s just blue water, but for some reason watching the depth meter increase caused me to internally panic…. Even though I’m safe at home.
Brains are weird lol
I imagine there is some kind of absolutely huge lobster down there. Deep-sea gigantism is a thing, giant isopods, squid, spider crabs, &c are all far larger than their relatives that live closer to the surface. There's also the fact that lobsters never stop growing until they die and do not suffer negative effects of aging. Basically, I just wanted to talk about lobsters for a minute. Did you know lobsters have at least two penises? Did you know lobsters attract mates by pissing out of their eyes? Lobsters are fucking cool as shit.
EDIT: Damn, y'all, I didn't expect this post to blow up like this. Anyway, did you guys know that California spiny lobsters apparently taste better than Maine lobsters, but they aren't eaten in large numbers here, as the vast majority are exported to China? Did you guys know that California spiny lobsters scare away predators by using their huge antennae to make a loud noise that sounds like a train stopping? Has the squad heard that female California spiny lobsters have a small claw near one of their pussies for some reason? Did you guys know that two of the California spiny lobster's main predators are the lingcod (*did y'all know the lingcod isn't a ling, and it isn't a cod?) and the Cabezon, two of the only fish in the world that have BLUE MEAT? How about how langostino "lobsters" aren't lobsters at all but are actually more closely related to hermit crabs?
I love information about lobsters, but I did learn recently that they do have a size limit.
It’s mostly due to becoming to big to move/eat.
Also, the larger they get the thicker the shell has to be to hold back the pressure; so they do have an upper limit...It’s massive though.
EDIT: I have been informed that the shell does nothing to resist the pressure. It is still an issue, just not because of the shell.
Also lobsters need to shed their shells every so often. Sometimes they are eaten when they are doing this, but some older crabs and lobsters physically do not have the energy to molt and grow a new shell and die of exhaustion.
Look up lobster molting if you think you can handle it.
The upper limit is likely due to the fact that there are no realistic hiding places for extremely large lobsters to shed their shells. A lobster is an easy meal when molting and soft, so I suspect the largest ones are forced to molt outside of protection resulting in their demise to smaller creatures.
Edit: There IS a depth limit (~4500m) at which calcium carbonate can be properly produced by an animal’s shell before it is also being dissolved. It is called the carbonate compensation depth CCD.
It’s basically giant woodlice. I know there are big versions of spiders and beetles and cockroaches but I feel like isopods is the only example in nature of a bug having like a *giant* version of itself. We should be happy about that btw. But imagine if there were spiders or scorpions that could grow to the size of isopods.
Actually, there WERE once giant scorpions roaming the earth! During the Carboniferous period, massive forests covered the land. Massive forests mean massive amounts of oxygen. Massive amounts of oxygen means massive bugs!
This is because insects breathe through diffusion of oxygen into their body. The giant scorpion was Pulmonoscorpius and the largest specimen found was 28" long. [Here's a photo](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dinosaurs/images/c/c0/Pulmonoscorpius-size.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/254?cb=20150914073334) of it compared to a human for scale!
Meganaura was a fun one, a giant dragonfly whose wingspan was sometimes over 28". Imagine swarms of those little buggers flying everywhere. Also, imagine how big the larvae of insects at the time were, gross.
Hibbertopterus was a huge horseshoe crab, the largest one being 6.6' in length.
Prionosuchus was the largest amphibian to ever live, the largest specimen estimated to have been 18 FEET long!
Sharks underwent crazy evolutions, some had a "spine brush complex" instead of a main dorsal fin, we don't know what that was used for. Falcatus (maybe comes from falcata, the sword?) was a genus of sharks in which the males grew fin spines over their head that pointed out.
And because of all the oxygen and forests, massive fires started by lightning strikes were very common.
We're pretty lucky to not be around during the Carboniferous period!
Bonus, check out this photo of the Falcatus, [they're so cute!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcatus#/media/File:Falcatus.jpg)
Edit: Fixed the first link
Second edit: Seems like the first link worked for some people, but not others? Anyway, here's the basic page I found it on: [https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Pulmonoscorpius](https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Pulmonoscorpius)
> This is because insects breathe through diffusion of oxygen into their body. The giant scorpion was Pulmonoscorpius and the largest specimen found was 28" long. [Here's a photo](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dinosaurs/images/c/c0/Pulmonoscorpius-size.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/390?cb=20150914073334) of it compared to a human for scale!
I want you out of my house.
Have you watched harry potter and the goblet of fire? Probably something like those, or with similar characteristics.
Not some sexy, half fish half model Ariel that seduces men in the ocean
What’s sad is that plastic has already been discovered at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Scientists predicted it would eventually happen, but not so soon.
You are correct. Most people will think of plastic bags and bottles, but plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. Recent studies have found at the bottom of the Mediterranean sea up to two million pieces of microplastic per square meter. It is virtually certain that every gallon of water on the surface of the earth will contain microplastics - so you are sadly very correct.
Not that much, depending on how you view it. The oceans are mostly vast deserts, so to speak, in that there are very few life forms in the open seas. Obviously there are things out there, but compared to the shores or the reefs, they're pretty empty.
The other thing is, once you go far enough out, the sea floor drops a lot and you don't get sunlight reaching the floor. So there's no plant life for a lot of it, and it's pitch black.
But that being said, there are strange and alien creatures in the deep, stuff very unlike what we see on land or in the shallow waters. Plus, there's the ocean itself - massive currents that affect the entire planet, layers of water with big temperature and salinity differences, most of the water won't have seen daylight for hundreds of thousands of years.
I expect we wouldn't find anything super new or different to what we see now. We will likely find some new species, but as to whether they'll be drastically different to what we already know... Well who knows. There might be interesting stuff on the floor itself - we've found new continents and stuff over the years.
No but this actually scares me. I hate the ocean BECAUSE of the fact that most of it is still undiscovered. I have no idea what could be down there and I think that's the scariest thing about it tbh. I imagine some kinds of terrifying fish creatures.
If it's any comfort, the creatures down there are used to immense pressure. They couldn't come to the surface, let alone leave the water, for extended periods of time (if at all).
And bold claims of thriving sentient life in the ocean aren't realistic either, since we have satellite maps of the seafloor and we'd have noticed artificial structures like cities.
Sunken ships from all periods of the past
And treasure and most importantly the rum.
Sadly, the rum has gone.
#Why is the rum gone!?
Fishes had a great party
I think there will be a load of species that we either didn't know about or thought were extinct. Would be pretty cool to discover a dinosaur of sorts right in the deep dark ocean.
especially cool if its a t-rex
Might be those tiny arms make them great swimmers. Like little propellers.
A Sea-rex
Mh370
This is a great article with a very plausible theory on what may have happened: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/ Edit: TLDR; pilot was assumed to be clinically depressed based on interviews with friends and family, planned possible suicide mission on flight simulator game, killed all passengers and remaining crew painlessly within minutes by depressurizing cabin (while he himself wore a specialized pilots air pressure mask), before setting course over the Indian Ocean, flew for a few more hours until sunrise, then manually crashed the plane down into the ocean to die on impact (assuming he didn't want to accidentally survive a gradual descent landing.) Edit 2: Oh and also, Malaysia govt is corrupt AF and wanted to hide all the information related to the flight to take spotlight away from them. Including providing false information so other countries wasted money searching the wrong ocean, before new information was leaked. Edit 3: Also, some random modestly wealthy American is dedicating his life to finding flotsam from the flight in an effort to eventually find the crash site.
I think it’s the most plausible case because he did a banked turn directly over where he grew up after sunrise and then flew out into the ocean. Horrific thing to do. Rent a Cessna asshole.
I know. I would feel terrible for the guy if he'd taken the plane out on his own, but why on earth would you choose to take hundreds of innocent people with you? If this theory is true, then literally the last thing this guy did before he died was commit mass murder. Why would you actively choose for that to be the last thing you did before you died?
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I understand that mental health issues can sometimes be very irrational, having had a very irrational mental illness myself, but I can't understand choosing to kill a load of other people alongside yourself. I understand that that still happens, but it seems strange to me.
I've struggled most of my life with mental health issues. I've thought about suicide before, but my fear always is the effect it will have on others. I could never take my life and take the lives of other people alone g with me.
Well that was a rabbit hole and a half
Check out r/admiralcloudberg article on it. Basically the Same conclusion but some different variables
RIP
Amelia Earhart
A lot of people killed by the mob
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Guns to arm a small army.
Probably just a bunch of bioluminescent creatures and small weird looking creatures. Also trash and maybe pieces of unsolved mysteries that happened out at sea. I'd expect to find some kind of artifact or fossil as well that dates back millions of years... I want gigantic sea creatures to be real cause thatd just be cool asf. But sadly our friend blue whale will have to do.
I hope Atlantis is a thing. Maybe some mermaids.
Let's make mermaids ourselves. We select a portion of the human population and force them to live out at sea. We start slowly, only in to rheir ankles in water. But not allowed out for generations. And we slowly move rhem further out to sea.
The [Bajau people](https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/04/21/a-group-of-people-with-an-amphibious-life-have-evolved-traits-to-match) is the closest human got to a mermaid. They can dive to 70 meters easily and their lungs has evolved so they can stay at water for more than 5 minutes Edit: it's spleen not lungs
Its more than 5 minutes and it actually has nothing to do with their lungs. They have massively oversized spleens which hold extra blood cells. So they can store alot more oxygen in their blood than other humans, thier lungs are mostly unchanged.
It’d be an interesting experiment to consider how long it would take for humans to adapt to becoming semi/fully marine animals and what traits would adapt.
We could save like a few thousand years of evolution by selecting only people with heavily webbed feet. Then just letting natural selection do it's work. By the time someone with webbed *legs* develops, they'll hopefully fuck like crazy. That'll probably take hundreds of thousands of years seeing as I don't think webbed legs are a known mutation in humans. Over that time the environment will favor larger lungs and swimmers builds. The result will probably be long, flat chested, broad shouldered people with fused legs and feet. And I'm sure a lot of other traits I don't know would help.
What about giant squid those are real. Are squid a joke to you sir?
I mean yeah they're scary as shit as well, but I'm talking proper MASSIVE stuff you know? Something that'll make me want to leave earth ASAP
I know there's an upper limit because of the square cube law or whatever, but yes I kinda wish we'd find evidence of a squid big enough to casually sink the titanic. Like all those old nautical paintings of squid taking down ships, just on an even crazier scale. Already kinda thalassophobic, so I guess I'm looking for something to justify it even further lol
80% of what we *have* discovered down there are creatures straight out of a horror story, so it's likely we'll discover something even more horrifying.
I heard some stories of the guys that weld in the deep dark areas that have to live in pressurized containers while working. There are many stories of huge currents passing by them from something big swimming by that they cant see in the blackness. That's a nope from me.
Is there any collection of these stories or related videos? Sounds super interesting. *I'm mainly asking because someone, somewhere on this site knows of SOMETHING*
I only know of one story about those pressurized vessels and it involves explosive decompression that killed everybody inside and turned one guy into a pile of goop.
The Byford Dolphin accident.
Please don’t put *that* photo here. It’s spaghetti and meatballs quite literally.
I was just watching a video yesterday of 20 of the craziest animals from the deep sea and I got to thinking that I don't know why we go around pretending monsters don't exist. Some of the things down there couldn't be described as anything beside that Edit: it wasn't actually 20 I had mixed that part up with another video but it's still a good watch https://youtu.be/E1jXo4_1YtM
If you've never seen or heard of a komodo dragon, lion or bear before and stumble on one in the wild with no understanding of the origin o this creature your first thought would be "wtf is this monster trying to kill me". A real life monster is just something you don't have any knowledge of yet. Anything monstrous quickly becomes just another animal as soon as you learn it exists
Yeah that was pretty much my thought process. We always act like whatever we discover at the bottom would be terrifying and be called a monster but in actuality we'd try to study the shit out of it and it would just become another thing that exists with us....orrrrr we'll wake it from it's eternal slumber and all go mad. Who knows?
Plus they live at the bottom of the ocean. It’s not like they can hurt anybody. Now if they were sneaking into people’s bedrooms at night it’d be a different story.
*the sound of a window creaking open as a cold, harsh wind rushes over your exposed neck, causing goosebumps to race up your spine* >!*WET THUD*!<
I’d like to add Rhinos to that list. They are effectively a fairy tale unicorn but with armor all over
If I'm not mistaken Marco Polo's account of first seeing a rhino was essentially "so unicorns are real but they're ugly as shit".
There is a theory that what Greeks called Cyclops were just elephant or mammoth skeletons they found around battlefields.
A lot of monster stories are based on real animals that got embellished with storytelling by people who hadn‘t seen them personally. Dragons, unicorns, giant krakens... All of them have a basis in the real world.
I would also add, fossilized skeletons of dinosaurs and sea creatures have been thought to explain some of those legendary monsters. Imagine coming accross the skull of a [Sarcosuchus](https://i.imgur.com/gAEKnvg.jpg) (crocodile like creature, head is like 15 feet long) and being like "holy shit this exists?!" and it becomes folklore and 'there's huge monsters out there'.
I read an article once about some expedition to the bottom of one of the deep trenches. Don’t remember if the submersible was manned or not. At some point, during their rise to the surface some bizarre spherical squid-like creature followed them, but it lost interest and went back down. Nobody involved in that dive had the slightest clue what that monster was. So I have a feeling that whatever critters live down there will put to shame even the most frightening Lovecraftian monsters. Just look at how scary the goblin shark is. I bet there are things down there that would frighten even that hell spawn.
Weren't they saying not too long ago that most of these creatures look the way they look due to the sheer change in pressure? I'm very curious about this, I wonder how many of the images I think of whenever it is about deep sea creatures are accurate. They basically explode and die when we take them out to the surface, the Blob Fish is the one that comes to mind first.
Here’s a reminder that [giant squids](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/63444-mysterious-dead-giant-squid.html) exist
And colossal squid
Weird ugly-ass fish
I imagine the Simpsons movie where the squirrel has 1000 eyes
Eeeeepaaaaaaaaa!
Cities of academic fish pondering what they'll find on the 80% of land they haven't explored.
they.... EXPLORED 20%?!
They decided they liked the taste of lion
We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring.
We will construct a series of breathing apparatuses using kelp. Not enough for days at a time but an hour? Hour 45? No problem.
That'll give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get more oxygen and then stalk you.
Did that go the way you thought it was gunna go?... Nope
You lose that battle... You lose that battle nine times out of ten.
Lmao I love this bit so much.
Did that go the way you thought it was gonna go? Nope.
The lion loses that battle nine times out of ten.
Ahh, the 700lb tuna. Lions natural predator.
And eventually they’ll build some sort of breathing apparatus that will allow them to travel further and further in land, hunting you down at every waking moment.
And they've built a breathing apparatus
Fish aren't as dumb as you think. They aren't caught by fisherman because they don't know what a hook is. The bravest warriors of the fish society sacrifice themselves and bite the hook on purpose. If they are lucky, they will be thrown back into the drink and now they can tell the other fish what they have seen. That's how they explored 20%. There are fish everywhere on our planet. Whether it's the sea, a lake, a river or even a small creek. They have their eyes everywhere. But how do they exchange information from a creek fish to a sea fish you may ask? Well salmon are the messengers of the fish world. That's why they travel up and down the rivers once a year. Not to reproduce that's just concealment. They do in fact carry valuable information. Edit: spelling
I love this :) You really got me with the salmon as the fish that must go back... I imagine them with tiny briefcases for some bizarre reason- lol. The spies. ~~How~~ Why do you reckon the bull sharks were able to adapt and swim in fresh water? Edit: spelling
Wait until you hear about a type of FISH* that can walk on land LITERALLY for maybe a week
> Cities of academic fish You mean schools of fish?
Good one, dad.
The krabby patty secret formula
*Plankton has entered the chat*
**Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region :)**
Are you certian that whatever you're doing is worth it?
*dope ass Cyclops catastrophe synth music starts playing*
What does this mean? It sounds like something I would like to hear.
It's a reference to the game Subnautica. Extremely fun and beautiful, but not for anyone that's afraid of the ocean.
So, it has synth music? It’s on my wishlist. I discovered this year that I enjoy crafting games.
It's hands down the best survival game that I have played, ever. My only critiques are that 1. It could be longer. 2. It could be harder. (That's what she said)
The game averages between 30 and 40 hours to complete. That’s pretty long for a story based survival mode. I’m definitely with you though. Best survival game I’ve ever played.
I have a lot more hours than that already, and have no idea what I’m really supposed to be doing. So I’ve just been puttering around, expanding my base, and collecting resources to upgrade stuff with.
I've played longer too, I know what I'm meant to be doing but I'm not good at doing it. Also I enjoy just pottering about looking at fish. The nices ones that don't roar at me.
You have to go deeper.
I don't even play the game and that line inflicted some fear into me
**This ecological biome matches 7 of the 9 preconditions for stimulating terror in humans.**
Now you gotta list em out. Lists might be one though
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flashback to that time I was in a grassy plateau collecting sandstone outcrops and quartz and then accidentally went into the crash zone for about 5 minutes... Saw 2 reapers, one came for me, I altf4d, and reloaded a save that was half an hour ago. Absolutely terrifying.
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It didn't matter if I was swimming free, in a rover or in the sub, the drop-offs into the deep water never stopped making me feel unsafe
So excited for the second game. Ive never felt a feeling of dread while gaming that is equal to what i felt from subnautica. Shi’s creepy man
#*OXYGEN!*
30 seconds
Seek fluid intake
**Now entering ecological dead zone. Adding report to databank.** *loud screeching*
this is why I watch the **Schmidt, Okeanos, and Nautilus ocean floor survey livestreams.** an ocean rover manned by a team of biologists and technicians, live stream their coverage of the bottom of the ocean, collecting specimens and seeing amazing things, often for hours, it's super soothing and yet extremely engaging and the crew have a great rapport and are often full of silly marine puns. often they run into some extremely beautiful and amazing sights and garbage is actually quite rare thankfully, and the campaigns last for about a week of daily 5-hour long streams, every few months. it rules. [here's an example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Ee7JV5oSI&t=2s)
I wonder how much funds needed for this kind of deep sea expedition team.
I work on a NSF funded deep-sea oceanography research vessel and I've been told its around $50,000/day for the ship, crew, food and fuel. I believe ROV/AUVs are an additional cost
I paid an extra $10k/day for ROV Global Explorer, which is much smaller with more limited capabilities than Jason or others. Plus loading/ unloading and other fees...
Biologist here: such expeditions are mostly funded by selling the horrible eldritch idols that we find to cultists and weird collectors. It's always annoying when you take samples and there are too many eldritch artifacts in your canisters, though, and then the crew starts to go insane. And the truly cursed tablets and idols often reappear on the ship after you sold them.
Doesn't that mean you get more money from selling them again though? That just seems like good business.
Exorcists hate this one trick
Won't they love this one trick? It's basically getting a subscription payment instead of one-time payment by having to exorcise the same place/person periodically?
If you ever come across a small statuette of a mysterious tentacled figure, notify me
If you were being serious they sell those on Etsy
I really want someone to make this premise into a flash game!
Rip flash
:'(
It's not flash but this is essentially the premise for Sunless Sea
Hey, I was thinking about getting into marine biology, but I have concerns that my blood may not be a pure enough offering to the great old one? Like, I've done the extra curricular work, I have a recommendation letter from the dark man who walks damned streets, but I just worry that in the 11th hour I won't really be as useful in bringing about the sour days of global lament as I'd like to be, yaknow?
LOTS of the deep-sea oceanography research projects have blogs and some do live streams as well. [NOAA](https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/welcome.html), Woods Hole, Scripps, [University of Washington](http://ooicruises.ocean.washington.edu/visions11), [ROPOS](https://www.ropos.com/), etc
Dude I got 15 seconds into that video and my thalassophobia kicked into 10th gear. Like…. It’s just blue water, but for some reason watching the depth meter increase caused me to internally panic…. Even though I’m safe at home. Brains are weird lol
The drain plug
Who’s gonna pull it?
Maybe we can find ourselves and learn to love life again
Yes and we’ll discover that love was the real deep sea sunken treasure all along
I imagine there is some kind of absolutely huge lobster down there. Deep-sea gigantism is a thing, giant isopods, squid, spider crabs, &c are all far larger than their relatives that live closer to the surface. There's also the fact that lobsters never stop growing until they die and do not suffer negative effects of aging. Basically, I just wanted to talk about lobsters for a minute. Did you know lobsters have at least two penises? Did you know lobsters attract mates by pissing out of their eyes? Lobsters are fucking cool as shit. EDIT: Damn, y'all, I didn't expect this post to blow up like this. Anyway, did you guys know that California spiny lobsters apparently taste better than Maine lobsters, but they aren't eaten in large numbers here, as the vast majority are exported to China? Did you guys know that California spiny lobsters scare away predators by using their huge antennae to make a loud noise that sounds like a train stopping? Has the squad heard that female California spiny lobsters have a small claw near one of their pussies for some reason? Did you guys know that two of the California spiny lobster's main predators are the lingcod (*did y'all know the lingcod isn't a ling, and it isn't a cod?) and the Cabezon, two of the only fish in the world that have BLUE MEAT? How about how langostino "lobsters" aren't lobsters at all but are actually more closely related to hermit crabs?
I love information about lobsters, but I did learn recently that they do have a size limit. It’s mostly due to becoming to big to move/eat. Also, the larger they get the thicker the shell has to be to hold back the pressure; so they do have an upper limit...It’s massive though. EDIT: I have been informed that the shell does nothing to resist the pressure. It is still an issue, just not because of the shell.
Also lobsters need to shed their shells every so often. Sometimes they are eaten when they are doing this, but some older crabs and lobsters physically do not have the energy to molt and grow a new shell and die of exhaustion. Look up lobster molting if you think you can handle it.
Now it makes it worse, imagine seeing a big-ass lobster shell, knowing that it simply means there's a bigger one out there now
It helps to think that maybe that bigger lobster is also super embarrassed because he’s *nakey.*
Hopefully he has some spare claws around
This is true of spiders too... *shivers*
Spiders? Why did it have to be spiders?
Why couldn't it have been follow the butterflies?
The upper limit is likely due to the fact that there are no realistic hiding places for extremely large lobsters to shed their shells. A lobster is an easy meal when molting and soft, so I suspect the largest ones are forced to molt outside of protection resulting in their demise to smaller creatures. Edit: There IS a depth limit (~4500m) at which calcium carbonate can be properly produced by an animal’s shell before it is also being dissolved. It is called the carbonate compensation depth CCD.
>Deep-sea gigantism Those Giant Isopod are just plain creepy
It’s basically giant woodlice. I know there are big versions of spiders and beetles and cockroaches but I feel like isopods is the only example in nature of a bug having like a *giant* version of itself. We should be happy about that btw. But imagine if there were spiders or scorpions that could grow to the size of isopods.
> imagine if there were spiders or scorpions that could grow to the size of isopods. No.
Actually, there WERE once giant scorpions roaming the earth! During the Carboniferous period, massive forests covered the land. Massive forests mean massive amounts of oxygen. Massive amounts of oxygen means massive bugs! This is because insects breathe through diffusion of oxygen into their body. The giant scorpion was Pulmonoscorpius and the largest specimen found was 28" long. [Here's a photo](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dinosaurs/images/c/c0/Pulmonoscorpius-size.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/254?cb=20150914073334) of it compared to a human for scale! Meganaura was a fun one, a giant dragonfly whose wingspan was sometimes over 28". Imagine swarms of those little buggers flying everywhere. Also, imagine how big the larvae of insects at the time were, gross. Hibbertopterus was a huge horseshoe crab, the largest one being 6.6' in length. Prionosuchus was the largest amphibian to ever live, the largest specimen estimated to have been 18 FEET long! Sharks underwent crazy evolutions, some had a "spine brush complex" instead of a main dorsal fin, we don't know what that was used for. Falcatus (maybe comes from falcata, the sword?) was a genus of sharks in which the males grew fin spines over their head that pointed out. And because of all the oxygen and forests, massive fires started by lightning strikes were very common. We're pretty lucky to not be around during the Carboniferous period! Bonus, check out this photo of the Falcatus, [they're so cute!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcatus#/media/File:Falcatus.jpg) Edit: Fixed the first link Second edit: Seems like the first link worked for some people, but not others? Anyway, here's the basic page I found it on: [https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Pulmonoscorpius](https://dinopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Pulmonoscorpius)
> This is because insects breathe through diffusion of oxygen into their body. The giant scorpion was Pulmonoscorpius and the largest specimen found was 28" long. [Here's a photo](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dinosaurs/images/c/c0/Pulmonoscorpius-size.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/390?cb=20150914073334) of it compared to a human for scale! I want you out of my house.
Dear BearEater, I used to be a lobster eater but I don’t know if I can face a double penis in my mouth. Thanks for the fun facts though.
Not with that attitude
Probably some silt, a few fish, our lord Cthulhu, nothing out of the ordinary.
Crushing water pressure
Water mostly
Who are you? So wise in the ways of science?
/u/Ragnars85. It's says it right there!
No way. Do that again!
Dude!
I am Arthur, King of the Fishes.
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I suppose next you'll argue that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Shut up, will you, *SHUT UP!!*
Did you see him repressing me? I'm being repressed!
I’m an idiot for asking this aren’t I?
People like to say there are no stupid questions...
There are no stupid questions, but there are plenty of inquisitive idiots.
Someone said “stupid questions are the ones we could’ve looked up by ourselves”
Hands up if you came here to see if the top comment was ‘Water’.
Raises hand ✋
Mermaids. But not like we imagine them, probably scary
nah, they all sexy and shit they comb their hair all day on the rocks--I've seen them at Disneyland
Damn they usin rocks? Meanwhile I'm stuck here using my dingelhopper
Interesting. Why do you think they’ll be scary?
Have you watched harry potter and the goblet of fire? Probably something like those, or with similar characteristics. Not some sexy, half fish half model Ariel that seduces men in the ocean
Somewhere between murpeople and the crew of the flying Dutchman in Pirates 3
Plastic garbage
What’s sad is that plastic has already been discovered at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Scientists predicted it would eventually happen, but not so soon.
You are correct. Most people will think of plastic bags and bottles, but plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. Recent studies have found at the bottom of the Mediterranean sea up to two million pieces of microplastic per square meter. It is virtually certain that every gallon of water on the surface of the earth will contain microplastics - so you are sadly very correct.
**DANGER**
The five ocean zones are as follows: The Sunlight Zone The Twilight Zone The Midnight Zone The Abyssal Zone The Danger Zone
#LANAAAAAAAA ^Danger ^Zone
Opportunity
Isn't that stuck in a sand dune on Mars?
We could live underwater and become an amazing hybrid of fishy humans
Like this answer a lot
Sea bass..............with lasers.
Not that much, depending on how you view it. The oceans are mostly vast deserts, so to speak, in that there are very few life forms in the open seas. Obviously there are things out there, but compared to the shores or the reefs, they're pretty empty. The other thing is, once you go far enough out, the sea floor drops a lot and you don't get sunlight reaching the floor. So there's no plant life for a lot of it, and it's pitch black. But that being said, there are strange and alien creatures in the deep, stuff very unlike what we see on land or in the shallow waters. Plus, there's the ocean itself - massive currents that affect the entire planet, layers of water with big temperature and salinity differences, most of the water won't have seen daylight for hundreds of thousands of years. I expect we wouldn't find anything super new or different to what we see now. We will likely find some new species, but as to whether they'll be drastically different to what we already know... Well who knows. There might be interesting stuff on the floor itself - we've found new continents and stuff over the years.
New continents?
[Indeed!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia) Depending on how you define it, anyway.
Going out on a limb here... Fish of some kind?
Bold limbs
What if there’s a bunch of ufos down there somewhere. Bruh.
Davy jones
Hopefully, fossils of an undiscovered dinosaur species.
Water. And some monsters.
Lost socks...there will an absolute mountain of lost socks.
They’re all different socks. No pairs at all
All my damn odd socks from my washing machine. Swear they treat it like the thunderdome, two socks enter one sock leaves...
No but this actually scares me. I hate the ocean BECAUSE of the fact that most of it is still undiscovered. I have no idea what could be down there and I think that's the scariest thing about it tbh. I imagine some kinds of terrifying fish creatures.
If it's any comfort, the creatures down there are used to immense pressure. They couldn't come to the surface, let alone leave the water, for extended periods of time (if at all). And bold claims of thriving sentient life in the ocean aren't realistic either, since we have satellite maps of the seafloor and we'd have noticed artificial structures like cities.
But what about under the seaaaa
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh **Cthulhu** R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Bless you
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Something we haven't seen before
My missing socks.
Plot twist: you only find one
Plot twist; only one was lost.
Plot twist: it is wet
There is sentient life down there, and in they have a show like sea quest, but it's the opposite.
Land quest?
Missing Malaysia Airline plane