Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am talking the Top 10 Scary Deep Sea Diving
Stories.
The ocean is a scary place – indeed we wee humans have only explored around 5% of it!
What else is lurking down there, I dread to think!
Before we get into this video, let me know your thoughts on boats and diving!
I love boats and sea life, but I am not on board, or off board…with diving because
of the deep pressure…
I don’t like chest tightness!
Let me know if you have been diving ! LIKE SHARE DESCRIPTION.
Stick around to the end where I will be reading comments from a previous video.
10 Thai Boys and The Curse of the Princess In Thailand there is a Goddess by the name
of Jao Mae Nang Non – which translates as the Reclining Princess.
The spirit that is said to inhabit the cave and mountainside of Tham Luang ….which is
the the exact spot where the cave the Thai boys got stuck in June 2018.
Basically twelve boys age between 11 and 16, all part of the Moo Pa Wild Boars football
team, went into the cave with loads of snacks and a football and were planning to celebrate
a birthday.
Oddly, an unexpected torrential downpour flooded the cave and trapped the boys inside.
Their coach went to look for them and also got trapped.
Locals began thinking that the boys had been trapped at the whim of the princess spirit.
Legend has it that once upon a time a beautiful princess fell in love with a stable boy, and
knowing that their love was forbidden, they ran away together.
When they heard her father and his army were searching for them, they hid in the caves.
Sadly, though, the boy was caught and killed when he went out to find food.
When the princess found out, she stabbed herself and bled out in the cave, where it is now
sad her blood flows as water.
Cheery!
While the change in weather may have come as a result of the unamused pirncess, Iit
seems she may have helped in their rescue too.
Amid the bid to free them, locals began pleading with a statue of the reclining princess outside
the cave, leaving her offerings to appease her.
As we know, eventually all 12 boys and their coach were saved….was it the Princesses
mercy?
The dive was 1450 metres deep and one diver did lose his life in the rescue attempt.
9 - The Handshake This story had me feeling very queasy.
It was shared in realclearlife online magazine.
The author was sharing a story of their Grandfather’s time working in Military rescue and recovery
during the Vietnam War.
They wrote: “My grandpa was in the Australian navy during the Vietnam War.
They were taught to shake the hand of dead sailors when recovering the bodies to make
them more comfortable and familiar with handling a dead body.
On my grandpa’s first recovery dive he shook the hand of a dead sailor and the arm came
off the body.
Had to keep his cool and bring the body up, but still pretty messed up.”
That truly is the stuff of nightmares.
8 - The Bends A great Radiohead song but a horrifying diving
reality.
The bends a re a very real and very terrifying part of diving.
Diving down to deep ocean depths put incredible pressure on the body, and if you resurface
too quickly, you can get decompression sickness, known as the bends.
This can lead to paralysis and death.
It is a tale as old as time with divers and even now, experienced people, professionals
are still dying.
All it takes is some bad calculations.
In 2009 a National Geographic diver was photographing a shipwreck in Greece.
Some say he contracted the sickness as part of a ghoulish cursed ; the ship he was photographing
was the Titanic’s sister ship, the Britannic, which sank in 1916 after hitting a mine, killing
30 people.
I think that’s kind of offensive though.
7 - The Shark Cage
I personally don’t feel great about Shark Cage diving because, while it would be a great
opportunity to see shark up close and personal… you know….
You’d be seeing a shark… up close….
And personal.
Also It has to be done right - baiting rules are often abused by shark dive companies.
Anyway… in October 2016 Diver Craig Capehart was on a shark dive expedition and got the
shock of his life when a GREAT WHITE SHARK somehow ended up on the inside of the cage…
with him.
Have a look at the footage he shot.
CLIP Holy mackerel that is one big mackerel…or…shark…they’re all fish right.
I actually think the shark is kind of cute… like…boop…whatcha doin… he probably
doesn’t understand why people in the cage were freaking out!
But then I remember he is a shark, ad he literally probably wanted to eat them.
Let’s watch that clip again shall we?
6 - The Call of the Crabs There are some truly horrifying deep diving
stories on reddit and this one made me feel kind of ill.
Responding to a reddit AMA asking Divers to share underwater stories that scared the hell
out of them Pteam-pterodactyl shared a horrifying visual memory.
They were diving off the coast of Florence in Oregon in a spot where a surfer had gone
missing a few days before.
They shared their story, saying: I was diving with some friends and we found a body on the
ocean floor in the creepiest condition possible.
He was the surfer who'd gone missing a few days prior so he wore a wet suit with his
legs, arms, and head exposed.
Crabs had eaten the flesh from his exposed bits so basically he was a torso with a skull
and skeletal limbs.
HOLY.
Crabs, man.
Arthropods… just trying to get by… but…urgh.
5 - The Mystery Man So the same redditor as above shared another
scary diving story and I am not sure which worries me more.
This next story is about a 1am mystery diver who appeared from nowhere.
They wrote: The creepiest dive of my life, two buddies of mine and I were on a night
dive in the Pugeut Sound hunting prawns.
It was about 1am and we're a good 100ft deep, the pitchest black you could imagine.
We used to do this thing on night dives where we'd get in a circle, turn off our lights,
then stir up the water and watch the bio-luminescence float around us like floating stars in a black
watery space.
Beautiful.
Only this one time we turn off our lights, stir up the water, and the water glows just
enough to reveal a fourth person sitting in our circle….
UM HELLO UNEXPECTED GUEST!
We were at a dive resort so it wasn't so odd to see another diver, only it was 1am--we'd
seen no one else prepping a dive at the dock.
He was also alone which was odd considering the dangerous conditions of a night dive in
those waters, and he had no fins or gloves.
I don't know how he swam so well without fins or didn't get hypothermia without boots or
gloves.
We wore drysuits because it was so cold but this dude was in a wet suit with exposed skin
and we thought we saw a giant gash in one of the legs.
So the three of us all notice him and we're too scared to move, I can hear my buddies
panting in their regs, and the guy just smiles and waves, then swims away.
People!
Sometimes they’re the creepiest water beesties of them all!
4 - How Deep It Really Gets Okay, for some mid list content, I want to
show you how deep the ocean really is.
It is an utter horror.
Like I said at the start if the video – we have only explored 5% of the ocean – so
– to illustrate how scary it is I want you to have a little look at this from Buzzfeed.
Im gonna screen record this scrollathon.
Okay, so up here is what we se and know of the ocean, here is the free diving world record….
Buttttt then we get deeper … we lose light… things get spooky, we say goodbye to mamals,
then at 6000 metres things get pretty worrying – bah….
A ghoul!
THEN even further down at 11,000 metres we get the deepest point of the ocean.
REJECT.
DECLINE.
No thank you.
Land lubber for ever!
3 - The Underwater Ghost Is this a picture of the first ever underwater
ghost caught on camera?
Well, it doesn’t look like much but let me tell you the story!
This image was taken by paranormal divers.
Yes.
Paranormal Divers… because if you believe in ghosts, why wouldn’t they also exist
in the sea?
The dive took place in a flooded underground cavern 130 feet down and when the team were
investigating they heard screams coming from the black water.
They snapped their camera and this is what they found.
One of the dive team said: 'We panned deeply and shot the black water and the sound of
the screaming voice which was the exact site of a diver death…
To our knowledge, it’s the first underwater ghost photo ever taken.”
I don’t know…what do you think?
2 - The Shoes So I recently did a video on our sister channel,
Life’s Biggest Questions called Where Did The Bodies from the Titanic Go and I learned
something really really sad.
The first time the Titanic wreck was explored by divers in 1986.
Movie director James Cameron made a handful of trips down to the wreck when researching
and filming the Titanic movie.
You would imagine that deep divers would have seen some pretty macabre stuff right?
Well, Cameron says bodies, even just skeletal remains, are nowhere to be seen.
At 12 thousand feet down, skeletons dissolve very quickly under the pressure.
Hauntingly, though, what is left of the bodies are the pairs of shoes they were wearing when
they died and they are absolutely everywhere.
Why?
Because shoes back then were treated with tannic acid, which means they are protected
and less likely to dissolve.
Have a listen to this – CLIP … every pair of shoes serves as the grave marker for where
the humans fell to their final resting place.
1 - Mariana’s Song Remember that scrolling adventure we went
on in the middle of this video, well way down at the very bottom of that is Mariana’s
trench – which is in the West Pacific ocean and is 11,034 metres in its deepest spot.
This is the deepest and scariest place in the world.
What lives down there, well we have observed sea cucumbers, but as there is no light what
so ever, it is hard to tell you what might lurk in the shadows.
A strange, unidentifiable sound was recorded coming from the trench in March 2016.
Have a listen.
The low part is baleen whale and sounds at 38 Hertz.
But the high pitched sound is unknown and is a whopping 8,000 Hertz.
What is it?
Honestly….
This gives me the heebee jeebies.
WELL that was the TOP 10 Scary Deep Sea Diving Stories… not gonna lie…
I feek somewhat worse about diving as a concept now.
I am not here for it!
Boat fun, yes yes yes…off boat fun…no no no.
COMMENTS FROM Scary US fan theories Katie Braatz is a fan of my outfits, thanks
babe!
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the elections.
OKAY!