There are so many myths about the ocean. some people say it’s a mystery yet it has a beautiful darkness about it which is fascinating. There are lots of fact or unknowns which is scarier than anything. The unknown of what lies beneath the water?
There are aquatic animals that live deep in water like sharks, sea reptiles, whales, and other marine mammals that are oceanic and call their home. Even though we all have seen pictures, those picture doesn’t justify the terror of the deep blue sea.
The radiators shared the most horrific yet interesting facts about the deep blue water and what else lies beneath it. So let’s find out.
1. The reason behind the darkness of the underwater sea
Do you ever wonder why ALVIN researchers don’t need to wear goggles in water? Because it’s already dark down there at the bottom of the sea, darker than you can ever imagine!
The water is so deep in the ocean that light only penetrates far below the surface of the ocean. As the light travels through the water, the molecules of water scatter and absorb it. As its great depth, light is so scattered that nothing is left to detect.
There is complete darkness. From 1,000 meters below the surface, all the way to the sea floor, no sunlight can penetrate the darkness, that’s why there is no photosynthesis taking place in the deep of the sea.
2. Tales of underwater sea
When a whale dies and can create its own ecosystem, which means a new world.There are bodies of water under the oceans, rivers, and waterfalls. Due to the density of water temperature and other scientific stuff.
3. Why does blood look black in the ocean?
We all know that the color of the ocean is deep blue or sometimes light blue depending on the light Because all the other pigments are absorbed. So after a certain deep everything becomes monotone blue. Here comes the freaky reason why blood looks black in the water because the red pigments are absorbed so there is no wavelength left to show the color of the blood you bleed, it only sees you a black-like ink.
4. Is there life on the seafloor?
Researchers found out the deep ocean floor is abundant in undiscovered living forms that help the earth’s climate. Researchers also found out the chronological sequence of DNA from the bottom of the sea found that there is at least three times more life on the seafloor than on the higher layer of the sea.
5. Do you know the riddle of why Mariana Trench is creepier?
It says that the Mariana Trench is deeper than any tallest mountain, it is situated deep in the western Pacific Ocean more than 180 million years old. There is still an unknown thing inside of it that researchers did not find other than it is the darkest and coldest place on the earth. The water of The Mariana trench temperature is less than 1 C (33.8 F).
6. Are there underwater sounds?
Yes, it is scary to think that you hear so much more underwater than you can ever hear above the surface. Still, a scuba driver who spends plenty of time in the seawater can confirm that there is a sound of other things, like water shifting, fish clicking, and other voices which travel a lot more underwater than when you head out of water.
7. Similarities between space and the ocean
Do you ever wonder if they both have plenty of things in common? like, they both are full of black holes and the number of viruses in the sea can outnumber the number of stars in the Milky Way.
They both could swallow us through their vast darkness if we lost in it.
8. What happens if the ocean lacks oxygen?
Imagine if the ocean which is full of living and non-living things lacks oxygen, no one can survive no fish or plankton and other living things.
There are some parts of the ocean which is dead of oxygen which means nothing can survive there, and those parts are aggressively
spreading. At the rate of its growth, it will create problems for the next generation.
9. Do we truly know everything about the ocean?
Every night, the largest bio-mass migration takes place in the deep of the sea when sea animals come up to feed.
We only discovered 5% of the entire ocean in the world which means there is still 95% left to be found.
10. A military driver’s experience
A military driver voices his experience in an interview about how he had to spend a long time in the dark underwater doing nothing just waiting for the next signal to move and many other things like getting used to having huge things smash into him in the inky water.