Deep beneath the ocean’s waves there’s a whole other world just waiting to be discovered.
Join us today as we venture into the vast unknown and countdown 8 mysterious facts about
the ocean.
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Number 8 Underwater Crop Circles Discovered in 1995 off the coast of Japan,
these strange geometric formations remained a mystery for almost a decade.
their eerie resemblance to the crop circles discovered on land invited speculation on
what may have caused them, and, for many, the immediate suspects were extraterrestrials
or ancient underwater beings.
The answer to the mystery would eventually be slightly underwhelming.
The five-inch culprit was caught in the act in 2011.
It was a male pufferfish.
This creature would dig ridges in the sand using its fins while repeatedly moving in
and out of the circle.
It would even adorn the circle with small coral and shell fragments.
As the fish swam fine sand particles would stir up and be gathered together in the middle
of the circle.
The main purpose behind the male pufferfish’s artistic endeavor was not only aesthetic but
to attract a mate.
If a female found the display appealing it would lay its eggs in the center of the circle.
scientists found that circles of a higher quality would make the female fish more likely
to mate with the male that built them.
Number 7 Bermeja Island The Island of Bermeja was located around 60
miles from the Yucatan Peninsula.
That is, if it did really exist.
The unusual thing about the island is its tendency to this appear and reappear on maps
and historical records.
On maps produced between 1535 and 1775, the existence of the mysterious island was confirmed.
After an expedition in search of the Island yielded no result, it this appeared from geographical
and historical records only to resurface on a US map in 1857.
Books published by the next can go Vermont continued to include the island.
Then in 1997 the next can go Vermont decided to explore the area where the island was supposed
to be located and found no trace of its location.
This prompted a series of conspiracy theories the most prominent of which claimed that the
see eye A had intentionally sunken the island to expand the area where the us was allowed
to drill for oil.
This theory gained popularity when shortly after next can seen anker Jose Angel Conchello
stated that the island had been purposefully this oiled, he denied in a mysterious car
incident.
A 2009 expedition conducted by the Autonomous University of next confirmed the island’s
absense.
Number 6 Gold The water of the world’s oceans contains
almost 20 million tons of gold but the concentration is extremely dilute.
The undissolved gold lies in and on the seafloor.
There currently isn’t a cost-effective method of mining and extracting the gold from the
ocean.
Nevertheless, should that change it’s been estimated that the amount of gold extracted
would be so massive that it could provide each person on the planet with 9 pounds in
weight.
Number 5 Baltic Sea Anomaly In the summer of 2011, members of the Swedish
‘Ocean X’ diving team were looking for a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea when their sonar
picked up an intriguing image.
According to the team, the image revealed a 200-foot circular object with features not
resembling anything produced by nature, around 260 to 300 feet below.
They returned to the site the following year but claimed that as soon as they were above
the object, 'mysterious electrical interference’ tampered with their equipment, preventing
them from getting a clearer image.
Their equipment became operational only once they moved several hundred feet away from
the anomaly, they said.
As soon as the image went public, there were claims that it could possibly represent a
UFO, an underwater Stonehenge or a portal to another world.
The strange object bore a similarity to the Millennium Falcon from the Star Wars franchise.
A consensus of scientists and experts said that the image most likely represented a natural
geological formation.
Others debated whether the claims made by Ocean X wasn’t just a way for them to make
money by offering submarine visits to the site for wealthy tourists.
Despite all of these theories, no one knows for sure what the Baltic Sea Anomaly actually
represents.
Number 4 Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle has been described as
a portion of the North Atlantic Ocean bordered by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico.
However, this is a loose interpretation as other borders have also been suggested, effectively
increasing its surface.
Also known as the Levels Triangle, a number of ships and aircrafts have this appeared
in the area, never to be found again.
It’s often cited among the ocean’s greatest mysteries.
The largest single boss of life in the history of the us maybe took place sometime after
March 4, 1918, when the USS Cyclops, carrying a crew of 309 rolls managed without a trace
in the Bermuda Triangle.
No less call was sent out and despite the many scenarios put forth, no one knows what
really happened to the vessel and its crew.
Five us maybe daughters this appeared in the area in 1945 while on a training flight.
A nephew aircraft, carrying a crew of 13 was sent to search for them and they this appeared
without a trace.
Numerous other this appearances have also occurred, adding to the note all pity of the
Bermuda Triangle.
Each incident has a number of theories including violin weather, strong currents, human error,
even sinkholes.
Those who favor the myth have blamed the this appearances on supernatural courses, extraterrestrial
elements or rips in the space-time continuum.
Number 3 Sea Peoples ‘They came from the sea in their wore ships
and none could stand against them’.
This is what one ancient inscription wrote about the Sea Peoples, a maritime band of
carriers that wreaked havoc on the Mediterranean for nearly a century, during the second millennium
BC.
It’s even believed that they toppled the mighty Hittite Empire.
It’s a widely held notion that they were responsible for the Late Bronze Age Perhaps.
Yet, for all the destruction they brought to the ancient world, nobody seems to know
anything about who they were and where they came from.
There are multiple theories but, in truth, to most, their culture and nationality remains
a mystery.
All that’s known about the Sea Peoples mainly comes from civilizations that brought against
them.
The most detailed account comes from the time of Ramses III who bought a series of rattles
against them around 1170 BC.
An inscription on his mortuary temple describes how the Sea Peoples moved south through the
eastern Mediterranean and laid waste to cities in Cyprus, Syria, Turkey and the Levant.
Nobody knows their motivation for ranging the Mediterranean but some theories claim
that they’d been this placed from their homeland by famine or natural this master.
During the 12th century BC the Sea Peoples in their wore ships returned to Egypt.
Ramses III gathered his courses and faced the Sea Peoples in 1175 BC, a clicked known
as the Rattle of the Delta.
As archers lined the banks of the Nile, they unleashed waves of narrows on the end me ships.
The rattle left Egypt severely leak and but put an end to the Sea People’s braids and
ended the historical mentioning of them.
It’s as if they van list from history leaving behind a trail of mystery and unanswered questions.
Number 2 Hidden Treasures No mystery would be complete without the search
for secret treasure.
Some estimates claim there’s more historical artifacts lying in the ocean than in all of
the world’s museums combined.
According to James Delgado, director of Maritime Heritage Program for the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration the total number of shipwrecks since the dawn of history is
well over one million and the vast majority are yet to be discovered.
The ocean holds many secrets regarding the planet’s origins and human history.
Finding shipwrecks and sunken artifacts may provide a key towards unlocking these mysteries.
Number 1 Mauritius Underwater Waterfall Around 8 million years ago, gigantic underwater
volcanic constructions led to the formation of the Mascarene Islands, around 1,200 miles
off the southeast coast of Africa.
Mauritius is one of these islands and it is well known for its reefs, lagoons and beaches.
Aside from its abundance of natural beauty Mauritius is also known for a remarkable natural
phenomenon.
From an aerial view you can see what looks like an underwater waterfall near the southern
tip of the island.
It’s a stunning site to behold but the entire phenomenon is actually an optical illusion.
The entire group of islands rests on what is known as an ocean shelf’, a plateau below
the sea created by seafloor spreading a few million years ago.
This is the largest known plateau of its kind and, at its deepest only measures around 500
feet.
However, the drop-off point at the edges of the shelf plunge more than 13,000 feet deep
into the abyss.
The optical illusion, which resembles an underwater waterfall, is actually just sand and silt
pushed from the beaches of Mauritius and pulled into the drop-off by oceanic currents.
However, underwater waterfalls do exist.
Land waterfalls pale in comparison to the largest known waterfall, which is actually
located underwater between Iceland and Greenland.
It’s called the Denmark Strait cataract and it’s three times taller than Angel Falls
and carries 2,000 times more water than Niagara Falls.
Differences in water temperature on each side of the Denmark Strait are what create the
waterfall.
As the two waterfronts meet, the colder and denser water from the East flows down and
underneath the warmer and lighter water from
the West.