30 Of The Creepiest Facts About The Ocean You Might Wish You Never Knew, As Shared In This Online Thread

-DGE

MY EXACT THOUGHT

That's horrifying to consider. At some point they must realise their oxygen is almost out? Does it run out suddenly or sort of, trail off? My only reason to ask is that I hope I'd lose consciousness rather than suddenly be choking for air .

more like ˢⁱⁿᵏ⁻ˢʰᵃᵐⁱⁿᵍ

Lmaooo🤣

We as a devolving ignorant food chain specie have spent the last 150 years consuming the earth, while destroying the oceans and all fresh water reserves as well as the atmosphere of our planet. As we and all of creation now eat, drink and breathe our own horrorific waste products. Yet still we strive to know more about deep space and deep oceans We are the most profound oxymorons on the planet and most likely in the universe also,, Unless we have a twin specie just as advanced in stupidity as ourselves.

Not the people no, the corporations employing the people. The fisherman spending weeks on a boat to feed his family and put his kids through school is not responsible for the crappy condition of the fishing gear he's been given, and shouldn't have to risk his life to retrieve broken gear.

Many do it on purpose, many not, but either way calling them lazy while commenting a random fact list on bored panda seems a bit strange

And inside the human blood stream

Well, when a whale is dying it simply can no longer come up for air and drowns.

Not for whale

Barnacle armour, you say? Totally unrelated but I'm just going to call the Chief of Defence.. you haven't patented any ideas recently, have you?

Wait, is this a joke that has gone whoosh between my ears or, are there worm species that depend on Whale carcasses as it's food source and habitat?? I can't find my phone next to me on the sofa half the time; how do worm species locate a whale carcass in the vast ocean?

Sorry, but this is simply not true. Firstly, humans have the same spectrum of hearing wherever they are, it's just that we don't have a lot of lower frequency sounds or very high frequency sounds in proximity to us in everyday life. Secondly, sound can "get to your eardrums" (it's not the drum that matters, it's the cochlea) via bone conduction. That's how most fish "hear" (vibrations in bones)

was the skin getting dissolved by saltwater not enough?

Take someone with the last name Trump or Kushner with you, please! Just tell them to go look at the cool underwater lake “over there”. They won’t know it’s toxic, and you can just report it as (whoopsie!) an underwater “accident” (“I TOLD them and told not to go over there…”)

Hmm, I’d love to, but I’m a little salty towards it at the moment :3

Scuba divers bring their own air. These places don't bother a diver. It's the living things that swim in there that die.

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Let's book that trip in for ooh let's say, the 5th of Never??

BP CEO but without the scuba gear

It's half a mile down. You won't get there with Scuba.

Me!

Me.

Inconceivable.

Don't even think about escaping.

can I give you an IOU and have you book some for my r@p!s7 ex boyfriend?

right? you don't just come up with sea serpents or dragons on your own, with no context

Dragons and rocs turned out to be real. Dinosaurs. Unicorns turned out to be real. Rhinos. Mermaids turned out to be real. Manatees. The okapi and gorilla turned out to be real, which were believed to be myths until fairly recently. Sometimes reality just turns out to be chubbier than we thought it would be

griphons were likely protocerotops fossils, elephant fossils are the origin of giants, the giant serpent jormungandr of norse myths is likely the story of a comet strike in the nearby baltic sea during the bronze age.

I think dinosaur fossils and rare sightings of deep sea creatures fuelled a lot of that :)

Sorry, but no. Many mythical beasts may have originated from fossils, barely glimpsed animals or bad descriptions. However, no, unicorns are neither real, nor are they based on rhinoceros. Dragons have little to do with lizards or large reptiles, and dinosaurs are not reptiles ("are", not "were" - dinosaurs still exist and s**t on your car). I could go on, but the point is that most monsters were created for specific reasons, mostly to personify specific attributes that are considered either very positive or very negative.