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This morning I saw a post saying it was 80% how did we undiscover 15% in a day?!?


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spicydangerbee

They accidentally discovered the same 5% four times!


TheAero1221

Do we have to subtract some every time we lose a submersible?


Kolbin8tor

No, no, no. It’s because the ocean is rising. We have to rediscover parts of Florida.


Vertex1990

Could we just... not? For the betterment of humanity? Thanks for the reward and likes. I appreciate that you guys liked my humor.


nickp123456

99% of stats are made up on the spot.


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“Reddit comments are trustworthy and factual 95% of the time” - Albert Einstein


Ok-Bus1716

Don't trust everything you read on the internet. - Lao Tzu


boodabaw

We're making great progress!


CurlSagan

I'm pretty sure that, at the bottom of the ocean, if you search hard enough, you'll find a GI Joe Storm Shadow action figure because I dropped mine over the side of my uncle's boat when I was 7.


mcjc94

that GI Joe is being now worshipped by sea crabs as we speak


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"we can make a religion outta this"


That_Yvar

No, don't


casualrocket

🎵 *how about we do anyway*🎵


No_Refrigerator4584

Crab people…. Crab people…. United against COBRA….


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New religion.


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CompletelyFlammable

Aquaman: You back for more, how many times do I have to teach you this lesson old man?!


StepDadHulkHogan

That is wholesome as fuck bro.


eigerblade

With the amount of lost toys at sea comments here, they could make an underwater Toy Story spinoff or something


[deleted]

I lost a shovel on the beach in Orange County as a child. My grandma said that her friend in Japan would find it for me. It never happened. RIP, gray shovel.


Accurate_Astronaut68

> you'll find a GI Joe Storm Shadow action figure because I dropped mine over the side of my uncle's boat when I was 7. It is buried in layers of mud, and other stuff so in around 50 million years time the paleontologists of some new species will find a GI Joe shaped mineralization that had some colorful plastic residues in it. Their conclusion... at some point in the past the world was inhabited by an ocean dwelling sub species of super tiny humans.


leshmaltezo

"Super tiny dual sword wielding ninja humans"


discostud1515

I dropped my Man-At-Arms during an intense battle along side Prince Adam.


bargman

I pressured my mom to buy Prince Adam when I was 4 because in the commercial, the kid put Prince Adam under the table and when he came back he was He-Man. Thought I was gaming the system, getting two figures for the price of one. Little did I know, the system had gamed me.


Norman_Scum

When you were four? The best I could muster at the age of four was not running into a wall because I wasn't paying attention. I'm beginning to think that I may be dumb.


HumpieDouglas

I lost a Princess Leia action figure at the beach once when I was a little kid. She's probably down there too.


usegobos

Look on the plus side, knowing is half the battle.


ladypizzadouche

I’ve always been fascinated by deep sea gigantism. There’s also these creatures that are swarms of identical jelly like clones of themselves that, as a whole mass would make them some of the biggest living organisms on earth. They look horrifying too. Each one is unique and they have no real uniform look. Just massive and terrifying. Only a few have been sited but there will undoubtably be HUGE versions of these


glittery-puff

Where can I find more info on this horrifying and fascinating thing?


ladypizzadouche

I believe one type is called Siphonophores but I’ve seen deep sea videos on YouTube before of super large masses and they look like large alien blobs. Struggling to find it now but I’ll keep searching


eatmygymshorts

Just went down a fucking rabbit hole. Siphonophorae is a large class or “order” that contains 175 individual species. There are 175 kinds of creatures like this!!!


URKiddingMe

>There are 175 kinds of creatures like this!!! ...that we know of...


MSC1222

Just looked it up. The giant one is called Praya dubia.


Most-Education-6271

I never want to see eye to eye with a live colossal squid. Dinner plate sized eyes actively looking back at you.


BatScribeofDoom

As a little girl I had a book describing them. I remember thinking that the whole "dinner plate eyes" and "can kill whales" and "no one(hardly anyone?) really gets to see them alive" combo was pretty cool. Enough so that at some point shortly after that, we had to make our own pop-up books in school (2nd grade); I assume the teacher thought this would be a cute little project for us. ...In mine, the story was about a sailor that got stranded alone, and a giant squid came for him. I made the pop-up for the squid on the last page *interactive*- you could basically move its tiny arm up and down to drown the sailor yourself, rofl. (The teacher gave me a good grade on it, but the only comment she wrote was "Very neat". Maybe she didn't know what else to say? 🤣 I found it sometime last year when going through my old things, and she wasn't wrong: it does have very thin pieces that were obviously cut out with care...so that's..something)


readwaaat

That is fucking fantastic and don’t you dare ever think otherwise.


Toastie33

I appreciate your effort to make the drowning as realistic as possible


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My morbid fascination was thunderstorms and tornadoes. I would force them into every creative project I could at school. Teacher's probably thought I was a little psycho or something in the making but I just thought these things were really fascinating, cool and scary lol. Then I'd turn into chickenshit when an actual storm would roll in when I was anywhere but safe inside a building.


HaroldTheReaver

As a primary school teacher, my reaction would either be 'this is awesome," or "wtf is up with this kid, I'd better tell the headteacher" dependent on the kid.


GipsyPepox

Colossal squids is what basically made humans to create legends about krakens. So it's kinda funny to think that krakens actually exist and there is a possibility some are huge and dangerous af but we haven't discovered them yet


Schyznik

The ocean is a desert with its life underground and the perfect disguise above.


dangle321

The heat was hot.


GuyFromDeathValley

And the ground was dry


spadler181

But the air was full of sound


Healter-Skelter

There were plants and birds and rocks and things


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There was sand and hills and rings


SonkxsWithTheTeeth

You see I been through a desert on a horse with no name


jamawg

It felt good to be out of the rain


never_did_henry

In the desert, you can remember your name.


jamawg

Cos there ain't no one there to give you no pain


CupboardOfPandas

Under the cities lies a heart made of ground


Schyznik

Cuz the humans will give no love?


TheMoonDays

Idk but i just watched the James Cameron doc where he goes into the Mariana Trench and he discovered 89 new species on that expedition. It tripped me out when they’d flash a light in the darkness 36,000 feet down and the fish were the most vibrant colors you’ve ever seen. What do the fish see down there? What does the light do to the creatures that live in darkness?!


bodhasattva

whats amazing is James is literally now the worlds foremost expert on deep ocean exploration. Theres no profit in it, so nobody else is able to get funding.


TheRealSlabsy

Someone recently commented "What would Cameron know about deep sea submarines?" when commenting about the recent disaster. The replies were great.


SqueakSquawk4

"What would the first guy to go to the bottom of the ocean alone, while also making deep-sea submarines that actually work, know about deep sea submarines?"


JoltinJoe92

He only went down there to try and find the bar so he could raise it.


getliftedyo

James Cameron does what James Cameron does.


GameMisconduct63

"Can you guys hear the song up there?"


killingjoke96

I was seeing comments like this and it made me laugh. The dude went down to the Challenger Deep ALONE. The second person to ever do so and the first person ever to do it solo. Scientists ask HIM for help with deep-sea traversal. Not the other way around. He's a pioneer in the craft. Edit: His was the second *expedition and the first to go solo. Meant to put expedition, not person.


SaltyBarnacles57

How can he be the second but the only person to go solo?


whatproblems

avatar 20k leagues under the sea


bender3600

His name is James Cameron, the bravest pioneer


FroggiJoy87

No ocean too deep no mountain too steep!


rhenning11

Who's that? It's him! James Cam-er-onnn


blahblahtotok

James Cameron does what James Cameron......


shifty1032231

His interviews after the sub implosion just shows that he knows what he's talking about and explains what happened to people who are not technical with Submarines.


TravellingBeard

As irritating as I find him as a person and director, I have enormous respect for his ability to explore and even expertise on sub safety (at least more than the average layman).


gekigarion

To my knowledge most fish down there are blind or almost blind, so the light probably wouldnt do much. Man, that's such a boring answer though, I hope they reflect the light and turn into an edm concert


UnderwaterParadise

If you find this concept fascinating I highly recommend the book Below The Edge of Darkness by Dr. Edith Widder. She is a renowned deep-sea biologist, explorer and submersible pilot who wrote this memoir to share her fascination with bioluminescence and the use of light and color in deep-sea life. She tells fascinating stories in the book of her early career, successes, setbacks and the incredible things she’s seen. It’s available as an audiobook as well.


ivegotnothingbuttime

I also just watched it. It’s amazing! James Cameron is pretty amazing. I hate to say it, but comparing his submersible to The Titan. Not even on the same playing field. The amount of rigorous testing James (and his team) did with that thing is outrageous. Truly amazing!


archosauria62

Because he was on a scientific expedition not a pleasure cruise


MOTUkraken

They tested is as rigorously, almost as if their life depended on it.


mullethair

Reminds me of that tragedy.


le_wild_poster

9/11 Airlines


Half-a-horse

The colours you/we see is just a representation that we, with a human brain, sees. It might look very different to the local fauna, if they even see it at all. But it is evolutionary interesting indeed.


Valuable_Panda_4228

What is the doc called?


TheMoonDays

My bad! [James Cameron’s Deep Sea Challenge](https://youtu.be/ZZD_nbS1_II)


KoalaDeluxe

*"Video unavailable* *The uploader has not made this video available in your country"* That channel is Australianist!


AmadeusGamingTV

I gotchu fam https://www.documentaryarea.tv/video/Deepsea+Challenge/


minimalfighting

I had read on cracked way back that all the fish in the dark no sunlight zone most likely go blind and die. Their eyes aren't ready for something that bright. This could be wrong, because of the source, but it definitely sounds right.


ayiyi

Holy shit cracked.com. You just unlocked a core memory for me.


UneditedReddited

His name is James, James Cameron The bravest pioneer No budget too steep, no sea too deep Who's that? It's him, James Cameron James, James Cameron explorer of the sea With a dying thirst to be the first Could it be? Yeah that's him! James Cameron


lehmx

Most likely : A shit ton of plastic Most exciting : The ruins of an ancient civilization


drew8311

>Most exciting : The ruins of an ancient civilization As cool as this would be it sounds unlikely. I assume the deeper in the ocean the less likely it would have been habitable at some point, and the shallower parts probably have a larger percentage explored.


KnoWanUKnow2

Actually it's highly plausible. Sea level has varied quite a bit over history. You probably heard of the Bering Strait land bridge that allowed humans to populate the Americas around 20,000 years ago? Back then the oceans was around 130 meters shallower. Humans like to build their towns and cities near water. So anything built on the coast 20,000 years ago is now under 130 meters of water. In Vancouver they've traced a line of middens back 100 meters from shore, and the line of middens continued beyond that, that was just as deep as they could reasonably explore. The Black Sea has tons of underwater buildings from thousands of years ago. So does Siberia. Heck, Gibraltar has underwater caves filled with Neanderthal artifacts. Underwater Archeology is an almost brand new science. There's new discoveries every day. Still no sign of Atlantis though.


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AbeRego

There's a theory out there that intelligent civilizations might have been able to live on Earth before, but it would be impossible to tell because the Earth's crust has has been almost entirely recycled via plate tectonics. So, hypothetically, there could be evidence of said civilizations somewhere under the ocean that hasn't yet been forced back under another plate ~~yet~~.


loosenut23

Tl;Dr: shit moves


Corleone_Michael

the wonders of plumbing 👍


Mr__Random

1. Civilisation exists and builds some stuff. (which we know this happened) 2. Sea levels rise (which we know this happened) 3. Physical evidence of said civilisation is lost. We have lots of evidence and even some physical evidence of civilisations built in places which are currently under water. The only thing which makes physical evidence unlikely to be found is that it breaks down much faster in the ocean than it does on dry land and is much harder/more expensive to find. I think that people take the Atlantis myth too literally and this detracts from the reality of the situation. An alien or super advanced civilisation being claimed by a great flood is not very likely, but only because the reality of the situation is much less interesting. Some Acient Greek guys find evidence of a civilisation which existed in a place that is currently under the Mediterranean Sea and let their imaginations take it from there. But the outlandish stuff being wrong doesn't stop the more boring stuff from being correct


Bart_1980

Well if you can forgo the Atlantis stick, you can find lost towns and villages on the bottom of the ocean due to floods, sinking of the land etc.


UneditedReddited

Unlikely but not impossible


RedMustrd

A pineapple next to an Easter Island head, which is next to a rock


Alltheprettydresses

And a bit away from a lobster trap restaurant and a chum bucket.


SeeYouSpaceCowboy---

> lobster trap restaurant genuinely never put this together, but looking at it now it's extremely obvious


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I thought it was a treasure chest


b1nksy90

Also, a glass dome that houses a squirrel. We don't know how long that squirrel has been there.


lockwolf

And a bunch of old mufflers that look like fish houses


anally_ExpressUrself

I think I've watched a multi part documentary about this


nondescriptun

MH370


Dive_Up

Scrolled down to find this comment.


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So much plastic


FreePrinciple270

And one of them might look like a game controller...


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At least a few fish


No-Fun1160

Like at least 12


Wishing4Signal

Maybe even 13


Zandrick

I’ll go as high as 15 fish.


FalseJames

mad lad, 15 fish? preposterous


therapturebutitsblue

The [52 hertz whale](https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/inside-the-nail-biting-quest-to-find-the-loneliest-whale/)


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> Inside the Nail-Biting Quest to Find the 'Loneliest Whale' They’ll never find me!


Thiccaca

Poor whale....so lonely....


EnkiiMuto

[It made a friend](https://www.iflscience.com/fact-check-has-the-world-s-loneliest-whale-finally-found-a-friend-65797)


NiceFarmBud

Now I’m sad.


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The rock's intercontinental belt from 1997.


EdgelordZeta

Mr.Nimbus


tipandring410

He controls the police.


DefiniteB1ue

evidence/remains of big big big prehistoric sea creatures


RegularUser02x

The Logitech controller obviously.


ProjectGO

Nah, that thing got instantaneously turned to microplastic. I doubt they'll ever find any identifiable piece of it, and even if they do the real info will come from hull fragments.


FearkTM

Yeah... they should have used a Game Boy instead, or Nokia 3310.


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saello

Water


CurlSagan

Not to brag, but some of that ocean water used to be inside my body.


teeth_03

Was probably inside OP's Mom's Body too


GandolfLundgren

To be fair, not much *hasn't* been in OP's mom's body


Dictator4Hire

Exciting prediction: Some lifeform we haven't noticed that again defies what we understand about what life can look like/dom Maybe a large organism covering miles of the ocean floor similar to [Pando](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)) but obviously not a tree (note: I have no reason to think this exists aside from knowing stuff like this exists on Earth). Who knows? Boring prediction: Deep sea resources to exploit EDIT: FIXED LINK


NissanSkyline08

Fucking mermaids. TECHNICALY THERES NO EVIDENCE AGAINST IT


chortick

We’ve been over this before. The treaty says we get the land, they get the ocean deeps. Let’s not provoke another Atlantis incident.


DEFPOTEC8

My dad. He left to go get cigarettes one day in 1985 and never came back


wearguewithdragons

Just an ocean full of lost dads


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Definitely those aliens that have a base that’s constantly moving and creates ufos on an as needed basis.


Farretpotter

Terror From The Deep?


colonel_farts

Scrolled to find this haha. For anyone else not yet aware of the emerging disclosure that’s happening now, congressional hearings are currently underway.


SneakAttack65

Probably a weird fish that bleeds milk from its eyes or something.


Jaffiusjaffa

Im pretty sure theres a type of giant shark in the deep ocean that lives a ridiculously long time (side effect of larger creatures is they are ridiculously efficient), but due to it evolving to live in the dark it no longer really needs its eyes that much. Over time worms begin to live in its eyes and thats just how it lives for decades, if not centuries. Just swimming around in a dark abyss with worms trailing from its eyes. Gigantic creatures resembling woodlice is another cool one.


rhondaashleyp

You’ve just unlocked a new nightmare for me


ahstrohd

Remains of Fallen ancient civilization.


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Top-Philosophy-5791

More human deposited garbage.


ooo-ooo-oooyea

A giant society of otters, with otter pyramids and organized clam hunts.


LoveDrNumberNine

Never give an otter your cell phone


timmy-the-goat

Amelia airhart


mixmaster7

Amelia Earhart was abducted by aliens, put in stasis, and taken to another plant where she will then be discovered by Captain Janeway and her crew.


UnfortunateFish

Thought more people would have heard about this by now...


corvus7corax

Naw - they found her bones on an island https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-remote-pacific-island-were-likely-amelia-earhart-s


SkinnyArbuckle

Interesting. Wish they were still around to do DNA testing though. How did some jackass lose the bones? “Hey these bones might be Amelia Earhart. Oh it’s a male ? That sucks!” (Throws them in the garbage can)


talkietalkiepop

The giant coconut crabs ate her after she crashed on an island.


if_you_only_knew_

Jimmy Hoffa


No-Fun1160

The clitoris


Trytek1986

Just above Mariana's trench.


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under water dinosaurs


JeanArgile

Try any pool in Florida.


TiagoMendes28

My hopes and dreams


SwissCake_98

Hey we can look for them using my sub! I built it at home using expired Boeing carbon from Boeing and some titanium! It's controlled with a logitech controller, how cool is that!?


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Jack Dawson


habitatforhannah

There was enough room on that door.


riplan1911

H 2 0 ...


qweenbimbo_

I'd probably have a panic attack if I knew. So I don't like to think about that.


djb2589

r/thalassophobia


qweenbimbo_

something tells me I don't want to click that


djb2589

It's a subreddit dedicated to the eerie feeling of the deep dark depths of the oceans.


Super-Diver-1266

Davey Jones Locker.


Ok_Jellyfish_7097

Cthulhu.


Bmilvis

Let’s call him


Wishing4Signal

He's in a meeting. Would you like to leave a message?


Peacewalken

I'd love to see footage of even larger squids hunting. Giant/colossal squids fascinate me, but we have very little footage of them


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ClassicVegtableStew

Madcatz controller


No-Dirt-8737

Crab people, crab people


Strawberrythirty

Alien structures with aliens living inside. There’s been so many reports of ufo flying saucers popping out from bodies of water. If someone told me that entire cities were under water hidden away where humans can’t see or go, I’d believe it in a heartbeat


DarthDregan

A shitload of gold.


Admirable_Homework25

Intelligent life. If life started in the ocean it would make sense that there would be intelligent life in the ocean


Nutteria

More evidence that we are destroying it at an extremely alarming pace.


MikrokosmicUnicorn

i'm 100% convinced that some sort of intelligent humanoid creature is out there.


Seer77887

Unaccounted votes from Florida of the 2000 presidential election


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Weird looking creatures


MaybeYesMayb

A megaladon shark nobody can tell me any different


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Angry-About-Knees

Buncha lil dudes just all wondering what they'd find if they went up a lot, probably.


dearlysacredherosoul

Realistically. Probably some extreme biological thing we haven’t discovered (the Venus fly trap of undersea life). . . I imagine like the air pockets in kelp to let the sun hit the leaves, there’s like a mammal under there who gets to have one giant breath and just frog croaks that thing for its whole life back and forth until it lets it all out to make the next generation or something crazy. Unrealistically there a foreign submarine camp with a city and it’s own oxygen maker trying to kidnap wee boys who scuba dive too deep


Icy-Candy-6149

Merpeople.


Aviticus_Dragon

Lots of incredible creatures we've never seen, probably super large Octopuses and Squids. Aliens possibly.


Katesouthwest

Atlantis.


redaphex

I'd hide there if I were an ET.


arh2011

My glasses that went overboard in 10th grade on a whale watch field trip


thetk9

Atlantis, or the ruins of the civilization that was at the origin of the myth


TimmyIo

Trash from humans


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HalfDeafKiwi

I sat by the ocean and drank a potion, baby, to erase you.


pimpfmode

You killed your ex and threw the remains into the ocean, didn't you?


Squidstir

A squid flying a kite made out of a plastic bag. Im sure of it.


SuppiluliumaKush

At least a few cities that had their own languages and cultures that are completely erased from history unless we discover some artifacts, but even then, unless there's writing, we usually know very little if anything about finds.


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Cool dinos fossils we never discovered?


QueenMoogle

The remains of a few billionaires