You know what, I have never felt quite right about fish.
Have you really stopped to look at a fish recently?
They look like monsters ….actual monsters.
That makes me uneasy.
A super natural rock eating fish that has been designated an SCP by the faintly sinister
and very mysterious SCP foundation?
Suddenly I am more uneasy.
HALP.
Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions – I am your host Rebecca Felgate
and things are about to get pretty wet and scaly as we ask What if SCP 1238 was real.
Before we get started I want to know what you think the scariest fish in the ocean is
– I am straight up going Angler fish…or blob fish!
Let me know the fish from your worst nightmare in the comments section down below and also
please do leave a thumbs up on this video and share it with a fellow SCP fiend.
Stick around to the end where I will be reading comments from a previous video!
Okay lets talk about SCP 1238 and what would happen if it was out there, eating away at
the earth.
SCP 1238 look like BIG fish.
They look somewhat similar to Antarctic Toothfish – are 1.4 meters in length, so like just
over 4 and a half ft, and they weigh 100-110kilograms.. which is pretty hefty.
They live in the deep ocean and usually they eat smaller fish but when they spawn from
April – July it seems as if they start generating eating rock – gnawing through continental
shelf to create tunnels to lay their eggs in.
For this reason they are classed as Keter, which means that they have the potential to
kill and cause mass damage.
So if they were real, what implications would this have?
Fish can’t be that harmful, can they?
Well….
Actually… the issue is here is that underwater devil can eat 120 to 130 kilos of rock every
day and produce little waste matter.
Not only that, each female SCP can lay 40,000 eggs per season, which would mean that the
population of the fish has the potential to quickly increase.
Eating their way through continental shelf would eventually cause continental collapse…
which…
well….
Goodbye stable land mass, hello people, buildings, things falling into the sea.
SCP 1238 is noted to live along the western Canadian and North Western American Coastline
in an area not specifically noted but referred to as the Golden Zone.
If I were to take a guess I would say that this Golden Zone runs from Alaska down to
British Columbia in Canada, through likely Washington and Oregon – right along the
area where the Pacific and North American Tectonic Plates Meet.
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if SCP 1238 were real and the population got out of hand, the foundation notes suggest
it could cause part of North America to sink, which would mean oceans side as the land collapses,
flooding other parts of the country, too!
The foundation notes outline a protocol to, I quote: prevent escalation to an IK-class
collapse-of-global-civilization event… so it must be serious.
Perhaps the SCP could breed at such an alarming rate that eventually they gobbled up the entirety
of the planets landmass, - overrunning the ocean.
Earths landmasses take up just 1 fifth of the world, so maybe this is plausible.
Remember where we mentioned the tectonic plates?
Well, the area the fish are messing with is part of earth’s unstable ring of fire, the
pacific rim of 450 volcanoes and an area susceptible to earthquakes.
Maybe this is a sensationalist claim… but this is an SCP video, so…whatever, if 1238
existed, perhaps it would trigger the 800 mile chain of volcanoes… ash would be sent
flying across the states and Canada, searing lava would flow, causing homes and businesses
to go up in flames and cause deadly mudslides that could pollute water supplies, which means
those who did manage to survive the other slew of natural disasters might be mighty
thirsty!
but of course, if this was happening, we would know about it and take action.
I see we, but really I mean the SCP foundation, although to be totally fair, I kind of feel
like geologists would note this happening too…
It seems like from the Foundation notes they are working with the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration – which means the government is in on the whole SCP thing
which is a bit of a can of worms!
If this SCP designation were real then the Foundation and oceanic government bodies would
need to get a deep dive on the go to plug up the tunnels and stop the fish from breeding.
While the foundation notes are pretty blasé on this, this would actually be a massive
operation due to the depths we would need to reach to address the holes and also the
materials needed to plug them… it took BP nearly three months to plug the Gulf Oil Leak
in 2010 with all the money available to them to stop it… depending on how fast these
SCP were breeding, the foundation could really have their work cut out in preventing disaster.
And if they couldn’t…well…
North America would be the first to go, hopefully Russia, China or Europe could work together
to save the rest of the world.
If North America did start sinking, where would the 37 million strong population of
Canada and the 319 million Americans go?
Surely people would be evacuated, but would they be given a new landmass on which to settle?
Isnt the world kind of already occupied?
Would this not start a few wars?
I think so!
It is a shame we can’t end the breeding problem and eat the SCP as a food source;
it seems they contain large quantities of toxic minerals… we probably could have cured
world hunger and a pesky SCP issue at the same time.
Damn.
So, if you have been listening, you’ll have reached the same conclusion as me – If SCP
1238 existed it would be a real threat on the rest of us…especially those living on
the west coast of North America…
Thing is though, in theory, for all we know, SCP 1238 could exist.
The ocean us a deep and mysterious place.
On average the ocean is 12,100 ft deep.
The deepest part, known as The Mariana is located beneath the West Pacific Ocean, and
that is approximately 36,200 ft deep.
We have explored more of the moon than we have the ocean, truly we don’t have a grasp
of what is going on down there.
Every year, around 2000 new marine species are discovered and added to the register of
marine life each year…
most of these are from observable parts of the ocean at shallower depths, with the wide
spread ocean floor a mystery!
The likelihood of there being a land mass destroying fish we don’t know about is slim,
but there could well be something down there that poses a threat to humanity and we are
blissfully unaware.
EEergh.. thinking of the ocean sends shivers down my spine!
What do you think would happen if SCP 1238 was real?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.
Also don’t forget to let me know which fish frighten you the most.
I say naaay to the humpback angler fish!
Before I go I am just gonna read some comments from our recent video – what if the Ocean
was Transparent… that video went so well – you seemed to love it…maybe it was the
scary thumbnail.
Ben Nevada said: If the ocean was clear then I would finally find my sunglasses
Imperium 107 said: Me: sees thumbnail Me: oh no no no no no I don't like please no.
Also me watches video.
Ha….. wait….is that clickbait?!
Laylam said: we would finally see the godly organism that lives in a pineapple under
the sea….
Hmm maybe spongebobs an SCP!