I'm sitting here with 3 cats and a dog. They all looked up with concern, upon hearing the 52 blue whale. My oldest cat wanders the halls making the same sounds when he's lonely. It gets everyone's attention.
Mathus Sinn Yeah, I know that. I just like the sound of the word. Also I don't want to limit myself to only Lovecraftian monsters and include other awesome giant monsters (Godzilla series takes special place in my reanimated heart).
It's interesting that many "crazy sea stories by drunken sailors" keep getting "discovered" by science. Rogue wave were still thought to be a myth until the 21st century.
@@kstar1489 You mean like by some guy in a cubicle, versus teams of men throughout time who actually spend their entire lives at sea, repeatedly observing phenomena first hand, and relating said observations with log book entries and oral accounts? Well yeah, you've made my point perfectly. Cheers :)
@@ravenlord4 To be fair they also thought mermaids and sirens existed. I'm not disparaging them, because they likely knew about some things before academia did, but word of mouth isn't a source of scientific evidence.
Here are the timestamps for the seven things: 0:48 What's the ocean floor like? 2:04 What's under the seafloor? 3:01 Brine Pools 4:16 Milky Seas (mareel) 5:30 The 52 Hertz Whale (52 Blue) 7:15 Upsweep (and the "bloop") 8:32 Why are deep sea creatures so huge? That's all folks.
+Stolen. Yup. "We're not saying these are things science can't explain.." - Too late Hank, your list has already been turned into alien proof on the conspiracy tubes.
@@frankragetti531 *sigh* No. It means that every time we research something, we find out a great deal more about that thing. Including usually exponentially more questions to be researched then we just answered.
@@PelenTan that's absolutely not the same as knowing less. When we learn more we still know more about everything, including about the depth of our ignorance. The wise man you're talking about was either a moron or didn't know how to convey their thoughts.
Holy crap. I just got the joke subtle joke from ace ventura pet detective, when the miami dolphins quarterback guy calls out "Blue 52. Blue 52, hut hut hyke!" about twenty years later!
When I was a kid someone told me that man had already explored everywhere on earth and everything that could possibly be done had already been done. I was a kid & didn't know any better so I grew up believing this. Now, I believe it stunted my potential.
My thirst for knowledge and drive to learn new things seems to only increase as I age. It's never to late to have new experiences and feel the rush of discovery! \o/
+Just a guy on RU-vid I had the most saddest and inhumane thought reading your comment, what if all the people that are getting killed in middle east and other countries are being dumped into the ocean?
I have an idea as to why creatures can grow so big underwater. As a scuba diver, I have to carry about 80 pounds (40+ for gear and 38 for solid lead). It gets really heavy really fast when I'm walking around with it on land, but once I'm in the water, I'm practically weightless. Water, as we all know, is MUCH denser than air, and in a way supports my weights when I get in. Because of all this extra "support" from the water, animals can grow to much bigger sizes without having to worry about crushing themselves with their own weight. I'd attempt explaining the living at extreme depths thing but that a different story for a different time. :)
Cookiofshadows2 that sounds good but does not answer the question. Yes, water helps large animals support themselves. But, the actual question is why does the deep ocean promote or encourage an unusually large proportion of very large animals? You get a D for your effort though.
Water supports your weight more than air because it is denser than air. When you travel deeper the pressure increases, but the density stays the same. You are right for why ocean organisms can be bigger in general, but not for why deep sea organisms in specifically can be bigger.
N4zasat1K ok i think im ready im about to put creative on i got myself a turtle shell night vision mask and a waterproof infinite battery phone i keep ya updated
I'd nope out of there as fast as safely possible, or if I had to stay down there for whatever reason (collecting samples, etc.), I'd cling to my scuba partner(s) for the rest of the time and never go scuba diving down into the deep sea ever again. (Yes, I am a massive scaredy-cat. Especially when it comes to the deep ocean, or oceans in general.)
Because they are adapted to pressure and actually die when moved to surface, and they eat other deep sea creatures or 'sea snow', basically the rests of the animals that died on more superficial zones, like whales
;o is it the thought of unseen predators or just the abundance of space? I know people that are afraid of things like really open fields or big mansions lol.
I was a sailor and saw the glowing seas thing many, many times. It's actually one of the things I miss most about the ocean. There will be a faint glow all around but the wake of the ship will kick up more of whatever is causing it and give you these brighter streaks in the water. It's really cool looking on a dark night.
Ryan Clemons1 I like to think the king of monsters (Godzilla) is down there sleeping until we get attacked by aliens or other monsters what I actually think tho. is that there's 10000 tons whales etc all I want is that when I die I hope I can watch this world and see my family BC watching the world I can find out how we all die
Brine pools can be very dangerous for cave divers. Sometimes you come through a hole into an expanse, an underwater cave and it looks like there's air above because the water sitting on the brine looks like the water's surface (well it is). Divers have been known to swim up and take their mask off, taking in lung full of air that turns out to be water. Nasty
First of all, Brine is denser than water, so it will be on the bottom, not the top. Secondly, why would somebody take of their mask when they have oxygen in their tanks?
Slinky Slink Depends where you go. Where I saw it, they were diving in tunnel networks, inland where ground water flows through subterranean rivers. If I can find a link to the documentary, I'll definitely post it, but it was AGES ago. Not to prove my self right or anyone else wrong, just for interest-sake.
Sooo... this might be a stupid question... but if we basically know NOTHING about our own ocean why is more not invested to research our oceans and the ocean floor?
Uhh, because it's treacherous as fuk? High pressure high temperature high creatures high jaws high Lochness monsters. Gigantic Portuguese man o warz. Kaiju portals that doesn't make sense and the movie is definitely not "amazeballz". Need this konnyaku say more?
+Kevin “The Authority” Tan Well I am not asking to send humans I am asking to send robots, because honestly if we can send crap into space we should be able to drop it into our ocean... I don't really see what's wrong with sending robotic submarines into our ocean...
+Kevin “The Authority” Tan Right well robots have broken in space and we still keep sending more up there, so fear of them breaking is normal but shouldn't justify not sending some down there...
+E Crierie (EC) but they aren't subject to gigantic space whales out there in The Great Dark. They are here down in The Tectonic Dark. Plus it's hard to account for all the variability of depth. They had to send a robot of Penultimate Of High Human Technology at Current Time to the Mariana Trench. And that yielded the smallest of things. Plus it doesn't benefit any one country to fund studies of the oceanic expanses. But it does fuel their prestige if they were to make discoveries in space. The funding goes to.....! You guessed it. Space programs!
It would make an interesting episode to go back to all of these old mysteries of ____, and update us on where they stand today. (You know, solved, new theories or workable hypotheses, or nothing has changed still a mystery.)
A very long time ago, I learned that creatures can grow extremely large because they don't need to hold themselves up against gravity; they just take advantage of buoyancy and let the water hold them up.
Yep. That was also why old pictures of dinosaurs always have the large sauropods standing in water like hippos. When I was a kid, it was in all the dinosaur books that "Brontosaurus" could NEVER have supported itself on land without breaking its legs, so the poor thing was confined to standing around up to its armpits in ponds all day. Made me wonder how they managed to lay their eggs, if they were also "reptiles" ... but hey, that's how they went extinct, right? So stupid, they broke their legs when they laid their eggs ... :P Anyway, that was the reasoning before the 1980s took a look at how ridiculous the dinosaur theories had gotten, because they (dinosaurs) just "had to" be utter all-around garbage (hell, I remember one book claiming that of course ecological complexity evolved, too, and gosh, of course Man showed up just at peak complexity or some crap like that. Those old books would make kids laugh their asses off today, and rightly so.)
You do know about the factor of atmospheric pressure, and yea that includes that found in the Oceans. Every 33 ft appr. It gets stronger. The factors that cause some organisms to grow larger seemnto be more connected to the availability of a good source and this is not something we see everywhere and with every animal, or every species as a ocean wide occurance.
In a lot of ways space is significantly less hostile to human presence than the deeper parts of the ocean. It's also less interesting to people who have money.
HUMANS.... We are not a threat. We come from Zahrinos our home. But it was destroyed and we found you. Can we live in peace and, stay out of our way... or you will be killed. P.C. You are very stupid. Still can't explore the sea lol. Peace or Death your choise.
These sea puns are what makes RU-vid comment sections so salty. Between the shellfishly opinionated people who are convinced that further exploration of the oceans will come up dry, and they believe any ocean studying doesn't hold any water. Of course, your tides of endless puns on these videos are unrelenting, and it's an unsurvivably dry sense of humor. I think I have to stop before we continue to sink further into the abyss of puns, but you are free to continue making puns, whatever floats your boat. *mic drop*
Thinking about the ocean floor gives me intense anxiety. Just thinking about the possibility of sinking into meters-deep sediment while being eaten by who-knows-what, just creeps me out!
I'd be more concerned with being crushed by the immense pressure. Seems impossible to imagine water squeezing you to death meanwhile there are gigantic sea animals swimming by.
Chelsea fc That implies she has an ‘irrational’ fear of being crushed to death, drowned, eaten by sea animals or die by hundreds of other means. Because the definition of a phobia is an irrational fear. Unless you’re talking about a fear of cute, harmless animals or something, try not to use that word.
I think the leading theory on the extinction of large ocean critters like the Megalodon shark was simply that its large size made them susceptible to starvation. Climate changes enough that food becomes scarce for a little while and they just sort of die off. There are often more evolutionary advantages to being small and having a quick/multiplicitous reproduction cycle than being massive and having a small amount of babies rarely. However, if I'm not mistaken, the largest known animal still exists to this day: The blue whale. They're larger than any known land animal (Even the largest Dinosaur was only a bit larger than half an adult Blue Whale's weight.) Sadly, it was believed that Blue Whale populations used to number 200,000, but are now down to 10,000 - they've been endangered since the 1960's and are not expected to recover. Still, other critters have recovered when we didn't expect them to. The north pacific Right whale is another massive beast.... though it's population is estimated to have dwindled down to *50* due to whaling.
It's crazy that we can design systems & vehicles to keep us alive in the harsh environment of space, but our own oceans are far too dangerous, even for drones after a certain depth.
@@Lh0000 That is even more to consider. Here we are, feeling like an "advanced civilization" yet mother nature has created creatures that can hold up where our technology can't.
So are noises old wooden buildings make from changes in temperature and humidity, mostly at night. Doesnt mean ghosts exist before they are demonstrated to. Let's not cower under our blankets painting imaginary monsters in our minds.
@@PennyDreadful1 Well,, typically most people grow out of fearing the dark and what their imagination throws at them. Obviously not everyone or necessarily ALL their fears. Another point is you may do so as you grow older and more experienced at what are justified fears and not.
Seeing the list helps me learn from these videos. If it helps anyone else: 1. We don't have a good high quality map of the ocean floor 2. We don't know what's under the sea floor 3. What are brine pools (underwater deposits of super salty water)? 4. What are milky seas caused by? Is it really bacteria? 5. Who/what is producing the 52hz whale song sounds? 6. Who/what is producing the upsweep sounds? 7. Why are deep sea creatures so huge?
Upsweep is the underwater bunker surveying Cthulhu's sleep patterns, keeping him imprisoned, stuff like that. Probably an alarm or something. Nothing to worry about. It's just a cosmic supergod. Stirring in his sleep.
I've always thought it's kinda odd that we know more about Pluto now than our own oceans lol The pressure of all that water must be really monstrous and I find that amazing. Also, I have a phobia for deep waters and the open sea so I'd really like to know what lures down there before taking a deep dip lol
Until the Bloop is truly solved, I decree it was the stirrings of Cthulhu in R’lyeh. The Bloop’s estimated location was only 100km away from R’lyeh’s location in the novella anyhow. Not as realistic, but certainly for romantic than an icequake.
Also I'm just imagining how weird it was for Hank to be making those faces for the 52 blue segment, in a silent studio. "OK cool, Hank, now if you can just do your best Austin Powers, that'll be a wrap"
So we can map the Moon, Venus and Mars and can't map our own oceans? Maybe the ominous 'They' don't want us to map our oceans. What are 'They' protecting? Hmmmmmm...
Or, maybe that should make uou realize that if we cant even map our own ocean, there's no way in hell we can map other celestial bodies & they are lying about it.
Some parts of the ocean are so deep no manmade submersible can reach the bottom because the immense water pressure would crush it. Miles and miles of deep water. So yeah... mapping very deep water and a rocky planet are not the same things.
Lol. You sound like a conspiracy theorist. You realise that using a telescope to view other planets is actually a whole lot easier than trying to map the ocean floor, right? Maybe we should send you down there to test the pressure, huh? Lmao.
Isn't it potentially dangerous digging under the ocean floor because maybe the microbes 2.5 kilometers will contaminate parts of the ocean and do a lot of damage
Nah. Volcanoes, earthquakes, etc do it all the time. And modern ecosystems have the genes of those that survived and outlived said ancient microbes. We even get shrapnel from Mars on earth, so we don't even have to worry about Mars microbes.
