We’ve charted the stars more thoroughly than the sea. And that’s not an exaggeration—we actually have better maps of Mars than we do of most of Earth’s seafloor. Which is pretty wild, considering water covers 70% of our planet.
That means every trip to the coast holds the chance to discover something new. And these curious ocean-goers did just that, stumbling upon everything from eerie underwater statues to creatures that look straight out of a sci-fi movie.
Scroll down to explore their fascinating finds—you might be surprised by what’s been hiding beneath the surface.
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Just Seeing Two People Stand On The Ocean Floor Is Strangely Unsettling
Biggest Megalodon Fossil I Have Found. Found While Diving Off The Coast Of N.c
Mega shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. Mega shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. Mega shark!
Washed Up Whale Spine
Real Talk I Think I Just Found A Shell With An Ancient Language On It
No. This is a species of saltwater clam called Lioconcha hieroglyphica, and the markings are normal. Like spots on a leopard or stripes on a zebra. They literally mean nothing. Zip. Zilch.
Found By The Ocean
This Thing Exists. Robust Armored Gurnard Satyrichthys Welchi Is A Strange Looking Fish
New Species (Porifera) From The Deep South Atlantic And North Pacific
Today I Found A Rock At Ocean Grove Beach That Looked Like A Sandwich
Ancient "Computer" Found Near Antikythera Island 1901, The Mechanism Consists Of A Complex System Of 30 Wheels And Plates With Inscriptions Relating To Signs Of The Zodiac, Months, Eclipses And Pan-Hellenic Games
Found This Weird Statue Buried In The Water Off The Coast Of Queens
Ocean Atlas Is The World's Largest Underwater Statue. Located In The Bahamas
Underwater Sculptures At Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park
This Fruit I Found It In The Ocean Of Cancun Mexico It Is Similar In Texture And Color To A Coconut But Is Much Smaller The Inside Smells Like A Citrusy Coconut
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/coquito-nuts-mini-coconuts#:~:text=And%20unlike%20a%20mature%20coconut,jellies%20for%20texture%20and%20nuttiness.
Apollo 11 Engines, Recovered By Bezos Expeditions
Christ Of The Abyss, Key Largo, Florida
I Think I Found The Tiniest Heart Of The Ocean. It's Even Too Tiny For Doll Rose
Sigillina Cyanea, These Are Strange Creatures To 15 Cm Long
The Ribs Of A Once Mighty Ship Bare On The "Graveyard Of The Atlantic." North Carolina, Outer Banks. 1973
Purple Anemone Next To What Appears To Be An Eye Of A Super-Camouflaged Fish. Or Perhaps Just Some Weird Reflective Property Of A Rock
Huge Japanese Spider Crab
Found Several Of These In The Ocean Off Moorea, French Polynesia
It’s feels like plastic and the blue is sparkly, only on one side.
Locomotive Graveyard, New Jersey
Wreck Of The Rms Rhone, British Virgin Islands
People used those stairs and walked on the decks of this ship. The tales it could tell....
Weird Ocean Creature My GF Found On The Beach In Santa Cruz, Ca
Weird Sea Creature
Unidentified Golden Orb Found In Gulf Of Alaska
Strange Lights In The South Pacific Ocean
Illegal Chinese fishers using bright lights to attract deep sea creatures, like squid.
Mariana-Trench, Deepest Oceanic Trench On Earth, Around 2,550 Km (1,580 Mi) In Length And 69 Km (43 Mi) In Width
What a bizarre choice of photo to illustrate the Mariana Trench. Sheesh.
Weird Ocean Blob Found In Puerto Rico
"Beware of The Blob! It creeps And leaps and glides and slides Across the floor Right through the door And all around the wall A splotch, a blotch - Be careful of the blob"
Dug Out Carcass Of The St. Augustine Monster, 1896
Probably a decaying whale carcass. The fibers are found under or in the blubber & become visible when rotting.
I got a free boat. When I lived on Okinawa Island, Japan, I found a small boat (like the size of a canoe) in the ocean after a typhoon. It was a one-piece boat - obviously hand-carved out of a single tree by a very skilled boat builder. Considering the course of the storm, the boat could have come from New Guinea or Indonesia or the Philippines. I couldn’t take the boat home because it wouldn’t fit in my car and I didn’t have any place to keep it anyway. But there was a jungle type of area where I found the boat, so I found found a place to hide it. I made a paddle from a piece of lumber that I scrounged. I occasionally used the boat for exploring along the coast.
I got a free boat. When I lived on Okinawa Island, Japan, I found a small boat (like the size of a canoe) in the ocean after a typhoon. It was a one-piece boat - obviously hand-carved out of a single tree by a very skilled boat builder. Considering the course of the storm, the boat could have come from New Guinea or Indonesia or the Philippines. I couldn’t take the boat home because it wouldn’t fit in my car and I didn’t have any place to keep it anyway. But there was a jungle type of area where I found the boat, so I found found a place to hide it. I made a paddle from a piece of lumber that I scrounged. I occasionally used the boat for exploring along the coast.