next we travel to Tasmania where divers
discovered something very unusual we
went off down with another couple of
guys on the boat to jump in and film
some seals what Mick Baron saw next took
him completely by surprise
well I jumped in the water first and
then my camera was passed down to me
and while I was setting it up I saw this
strange animal about ah 30 meters away
little Wow what's this so I yelled out
to the other two guys on the boat come
on guys get in here you've got something
here you'll never see again in your life
an enormous tube shaped structure was
hanging in the water it was about ten
motors long when I touched it it didn't
actually react it just sort of felt like
a soft jelly like substance and
strangest of all the tube was glowing
with an eerie blue light was its origin
even alien I've been diving for quite a
long time so 40 years and when I saw
this one of a while this is a pretty
unusual experience
so what was this gigantic glowing tube
and was it even alive when it comes to
the ocean we've barely scratched the
surface it's often said that the
deep-sea is Earth's last unexplored
frontier teeming with alien looking life
but even these bizarre creatures have
features that we can recognize eyes
limbs teeth the thing that the divers
encountered had none of these but there
is another possibility you see some
marine animals live together forming a
much bigger organism take coral reefs
calls are formed by colonies of
creatures known as polyps these tiny
animals build a hard exoskeleton around
them and living together in their
billions they form some of the world's
largest and most spectacular structures
like the Great Barrier Reef and it's not
just Cole's that take to communal living
our giant tube is actually a colony of
tiny animals known as a Pyrus own