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welcome to watch mojo and today we'll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
greatest underwater discoveries ever the
last time someone ate off those plates
it was a sailor likely in 1845
1846 over time decay will be inevitable
then remarkably researchers noticed tiny
gear wheels in the machine
for this list we're looking at some of
the most amazing and important
underwater discoveries ranging from
marine biology to archaeology
let us know in the comments which one
you think is the most significant
number 10 hms terror and erebus in the
1840s the polar exploration ships terror
and erebus had already had successful
voyages to the antarctic but they were
doomed when in 1845 they embarked on an
expedition to canada
while trying to chart the northwest
passage both ships disappeared
they had become trapped in ice and the
crews all perished in the cold
eventually
but the shipwrecks themselves weren't
found until the 21st century
in 2014 and 2016 respectively
erebus and terror were found after a
long and expensive search undertaken by
the canadian authorities
parks canada and inuit are working in
partnership
to explore the wrecks of hms erebus and
hms terror
finally after more than 150 years we
might get answers on why the ship
suffered such a tragic fate
for the most part nothing's broken there
number nine
cold case cars in 2013
two cars both dating back to the 1970s
were found in foss lake oklahoma
these are very old cars they figured
both were stolen but then they found
three bodies in the first car a few
years of investigation showed that both
cars belonged to separate missing person
cases
one a 1969 camaro held the remains of a
group of teenagers who went missing in
late 1970
while an older chevrolet contained three
people reported missing in 1969.
the cars have since been brought up from
the bottom of the lake in a discovery
that finally saw the disappearances of
several people
it's one fluke discovery that might have
solved two long forgotten mysteries
however cops still don't know how the
cars actually got into the lake
most believe it was an unfortunate
accident due to unsafe roads
while others still think foul play was
involved he's hopeful that investigators
will find out what happened to his
friend
and the two other teenagers number eight
palvo petri
humans have lived in greece for
thousands of years and one of the oldest
sites that prove this is palvo petri
this 5
000 year old township was first
excavated in the late 1960s and has
since received the title of the oldest
submerged city in the world
in 1967 the submerged remains of a
prehistoric town were found by nick
fleming
then a young oceanographer from the
university of southampton it was lying
only a few feet
below the surface but still managed to
go undetected for millennia
any evidence of ancient humans is always
going to be significant it's not a
subject anybody can know too much about
and palvo petri is one of the most
incredible archaeological finds in
history it's located
actually within a wall of a settlement
which was quite common in the bronze age
it survived in spite of the damage
passing ships caused though remains at
risk of destruction
eighty percent of them appear to be
early bronze age
and that actually makes this settlement
all the more important
number seven giant tube worms one of the
most inhospitable places on earth are
deep sea volcanoes
organisms have to contend not only with
the pressure of being so far down but
also the extreme
temperatures the volcanoes cause and the
toxic materials they eject
so in 1977 researchers weren't expecting
to discover an entirely new and bizarre
creature while investigating hypothermal
vents in the galapagos islands
but that's what happened oh i think the
white part
is at least two
two meters tall giant tube worms are
alien-like invertebrates that grow
around the vents withstanding immense
amounts of sulfur and high temperatures
of hundreds of degrees fahrenheit
the discovery of the worms gives us hope
that there might be life on other
planets that mirror the hostile
environment of underwater volcanoes
there we go i spoke too loud
number six the antikythera mechanism
this unusual object
described by many as the world's
earliest computer was found in a
shipwreck in 1901
having been eroded by thousands of years
underwater
it was built 2000 years ago in ancient
greece
for decades the mystery of what the
antikythera mechanism was
and whether it even originated on earth
at all has confounded scientists
but today we think we have the answer
most likely it's a cosmological device
for charting the stars and had been used
to predict eclipses and other
astronomical events
accurately and then suddenly you look
and you look and you see that they're
tiny greek characters
engraved into into the actual metal
itself that doesn't make it any less
interesting however since it would take
humans
centuries to develop technology as
advanced as this mechanism again
when the knowledge was lost much later
the antikythera mechanism
to the amazement of scientists would be
revealed
as the world's first computer number
five
lost mahabalipuram pagodas the seven
pagodas belong to an old hindu myth
about a man who was punished for his
lack of faith in vishnu one of
hinduism's most important and powerful
gods
the man's son then built the city of
mahabalipuram
said to be the site of these pagodas for
centuries it was believed that they
belonged firmly in the land of myth
but that changed just a few decades ago
in 2004 during the tragic and
devastating indian ocean earthquake and
tsunami
witnesses on the beach saw the legendary
pagodas emerge as the tsunami pulled the
water and silt from the shore
two submerged temples were investigated
after the disaster
in a major archaeological discovery
number 4.
athlete yaoun just off the coast of
israel is a neolithic village
believed to be one of the oldest in the
world constructed an incredible
9 000 years ago he's a 9 000 year old
settlement it was abandoned at some
point likely due to a tsunami or similar
disaster and wasn't found again until
1984.
despite it being abandoned skeletons
have been found there as well as studied
but they probably didn't drown since we
know they had tuberculosis in the
earliest cases of tb yet known
today athlete yalum is a hugely
important site even being dubbed
israel's atlantis but it's not clear how
much longer it can survive
underwater well you see the the village
is 40 000 square meters
this information was gathered after
uh 25 years of exposure
number three thomas heraklion lost
ancient cities abound in myths and pop
culture with atlantis undoubtedly being
the most famous lost city in the entire
world
but while atlantis almost certainly
isn't real thomas heraklion
certainly is it was first spotted by a
pilot flying over egypt in the 1930s but
it took until
1999 for the ruins true location to be
ascertained and excavated
these fascinating artifacts from lost
egyptian cities were discovered
what they found was extraordinary an
ancient
city at the mouth of the river nile that
solved not one but two ancient mysteries
since thomas and heraklion previously
thought to be separate settlements in
antiquity were actually the same place
the once magnificent egyptian cities of
thomas heraklion and canopus
we found statues temples currency and
other incredible relics that had all
sunk into the sea the sea had reclaimed
the cities where they laid undiscovered
for over a thousand years number two the
uluberon shipwreck
this turkish shipwreck is one of the
oldest ships ever found
and despite it being made of wood it
remarkably survived in the mediterranean
sea for around
sixteen hundred years we know humans
were sailing for much longer than this
but the ulubron shipwreck's age and its
condition make it a
major archaeological find it took 10
years and over 20
000 dives to bring the ship and its
contents to the surface for further
investigation
it contained incredible riches for the
time like ostrich eggs elephant tusks
and even gold jewelry
it was truly a relic of the bronze age
frozen in time
just waiting for someone to find it even
if that didn't happen until the 1980s
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
i-400 japanese submarine these giant
subs were captured and sunk by the u.s
remaining lost until the next century
and the very first thing that came out
of the dark was a giant hangar door
train graveyard it's still not entirely
clear how these steam trains
found their way to the bottom of the sea
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the marianas trench the deepest part of
the ocean wasn't fully investigated
until the 1950s
giant squid we didn't photograph this
ocean monster alive in the wild until
2004
we recorded a giant squid which was kind
of
considered the holy grail of natural
history cinematography
the bismarck this nazi warship was sunk
in 1941 and was finally rediscovered in
1989.
for the first time since may 1941 human
eyes directly gaze on bismarck's decks
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number one the titanic when the titanic
sank in 1912 on its maiden voyage from
great britain to the u.s
it was a tragedy of unprecedented
proportions over 1500 people lost their
lives in the disaster
and many of the survivors spent the rest
of their lives traumatized
of the 2 230 lives aboard
over 1 500 people a majority third class
passengers and crew
perish but despite knowing roughly where
the titanic sank it took until 1985 for
the actual wreck to be located
12 000 feet down and until then we
didn't even
know that it had actually split
completely in two
73 years after her sinking the wreck's
stunning discovery confirms the account
of some survivors
it took decades of searching and many
advances in deep sea technology to find
the
wreck including sonar and underwater
photography
all of which remain invaluable in modern
ocean exploration
deeply moved by this apocalyptic site
robert ballard vows to preserve the
wreck as a shrine to the lives lost
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