Secrets of the oceans and seas. Secrets of the ocean depths

Secrets of the Ocean updated: November 14, 2018 by: cross

While many people look into space in awe, they forget that incredible vistas of unexplored wonders may be much closer - in the earth's oceans. As technology improves, the ocean continues to reveal more and more secrets.

1. Large amorphous creature

Recently, a video was posted online showing a giant amorphous blob-like creature swimming near a deep sea drilling rig. The creature pulsed near the underwater cameras for long enough to draw attention to itself. Luminous from the inside, an incredibly huge being constantly fluctuated and changed its shape.

Some suggested that it was a completely unknown creature from the depths of the ocean. Others thought it might be evidence of some kind of alien presence at a depth where humans cannot reach. Most of the researchers said that this is a giant jellyfish that was disturbed by a drilling rig.

2. Crystal pyramid in the depths of the ocean

There are many stories about strange crystal pyramids that were found deep in the ocean, presumably not far from the Bermuda Triangle. Those who insist on the existence of such artifacts claim that most scientists know about them, but deny everything for conspiratorial reasons.

However, the vast majority of researchers insist that these tales of crystal pyramids under the ocean are misleading. Similar stories allegedly began to appear after the scammers announced that they had found a broken piece of crystal, which supposedly had magical properties, near the top of one of these pyramids.

3. The secret of immortality

"Benjamin Button's Medusa" has an incredible unique feature. If they face serious injury or simply reach a respectable age, then these jellyfish can reverse the aging process and turn back into a polyp, starting the life cycle again. This allows them to heal from injuries and live essentially forever, which is currently a great threat to the world's oceans.

Button's jellyfish begin to populate parts of the oceans, breaking the entire balance of marine life. Although many scientists doubt that people can find the reason for the true immortality of jellyfish today, others argue that in the future this will become possible for people. At the very least, this could be a cure for cancer.

4. Atlantis - reality or fiction

Many theories about lost city Atlantis is absolutely wild and fantastic. Some say that Atlantis is located in the Bermuda Triangle, although the legends never mention its presence in that area. Others believe that the domed cities of Atlantis are still preserved deep underwater.

A historian named Bettany Hughes studied ancient myth about Atlantis and realized that Plato, probably under the guise of Atlantis, allegorically described the island of Santorini, located not far from ancient greece. The people who lived in Thera, a city on this island, were very skilled merchants and merchants who benefited from a strategic position between three continents. This allowed them to become very wealthy and lead Feret to prosperity.

Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the island had no idea that they were actually living right on top of the volcano. In 1620 BC the volcano literally exploded with an eruption, and the explosion was so huge that it affected almost the entire world. Plato had almost certainly heard of him. The remains of Feret are perfectly preserved, like famous city Pompeii, also killed by a volcanic eruption.

5. Intelligent life could be much closer

The scientific explanation for the mermaid legend implies that sailors were often at sea for long periods of time without women and drinking frequently, so it is not surprising that they experienced visual hallucinations mistaking manatees for mermaids. However, the ocean is very great place and mostly unexplored. Nobody knows what's going on in the depths. Humans are always looking for intelligent life that looks like humans, but it can look and behave very differently.

6. The main enemy is pressure

Many people are surprised at how incredible amount money is being spent on space exploration when the ocean is right next door and still largely unexplored. They cite for comparison the colossal costs of spacecraft and space stations, believing that the cost of studying the ocean could be ten times less.

In fact, in many ways the problem of studying the ocean is much larger. After all, at a depth of only a couple of kilometers, the pressure becomes simply unimaginable, which is why a completely scanty amount of the deep part of the ocean has been explored so far. If new technologies do not appear at the root, then people will not soon know what is hidden in the oceans of the Earth.

7. The largest earthly creature

Many people have speculated about what kind of sea monsters might be lurking at depths where humans can't reach. Giant squids, which were previously considered a myth, have already been found, which can really reach incredible sizes. In fact, even many normal fish can grow to nightmarishly large sizes under the right conditions in the deep ocean.

It is not surprising that people have been thinking for a long time, what is the biggest and most terrible thing that can live in the depths. Even if you remember the time of the dinosaurs, the largest creature did not exceed the size of the modern blue whale. Nevertheless, most of The ocean remains unexplored, especially in deeper areas, so no one knows what monstrously huge creatures are hiding almost next to people.

8. The ocean is 95 percent unexplored

Some may have heard that the ocean is "95 percent unexplored". Marine biologists consider this to be a very gross oversimplification. Scientists today, using satellites, radar and mathematical calculations, have created a map of the ocean floor with a maximum resolution of 5 kilometers. Although these are still very rough sketches, marine biologists have a pretty good idea of ​​where depressions and depressions are in the ocean. mountain ranges.

However, marine biologist John Copley, while pointing out the fallacy of the meme, also admitted to Scientific American that humans have actually explored far less than 5 percent of the ocean.

9. Methane hydrate - a new source of energy

Methane hydrate - strange crystalline structures of water and methane frozen together. Ever since the discovery of gas hydrate deposits decades ago, governments have begun to seriously explore hydrates as a form of alternative energy.

Methane hydrates are certainly very useful in case of a shortage of other natural gases, but there are certain problems. First, as with any subsea exploration, commercial production will be very expensive. And secondly, environmentalists fear that underwater drilling can lead to real disasters.

10. Unraveling the sound of "Bloop"

Back in 1997, people were baffled by a sound recorded underwater not far from South America. It was loud enough to be clearly picked up by two different stations a few kilometers apart, and many people thought it was the sound of a colossal deep sea creature.

Some people even suggested that this is the notorious Cthulhu, whose mythical place of imprisonment ( underwater city R'Lieh) is supposedly located a couple of thousand kilometers from the stations that picked up the sound. In the end, scientists came to the conclusion that the sounds were just the crackling of ice shelves cracking underwater.

The seas and oceans remain for us the keepers of dark, incomprehensible secrets. And although navigation safety standards have increased dramatically over the past century, still every year from 5 to 10 capital ships and there is no reason to explain it. Among the countless mysteries of the oceans and seas, only a few cause as much misunderstanding among sailors as the mysterious disappearance of the cargo ship Cyclops (America), a displacement of 20,000 tons, which disappeared along with a cargo of manganese ore at the end of March 1918.

The loss of the Cyclops, and the 304 people who were on board, was a heavy blow to the American fleet, which was participating in the world war at that time, especially since it was not at all like the ship had become a victim of enemy mines or torpedoes. With a length of 500 feet, this powerful cargo ship was quite capable of withstanding any Atlantic storm. He disappeared in calm weather. Very few of the facts last flight"Cyclops" can claim to clarify the mystery of the disappearance. 24 hours after leaving Barbados, where the ship was loaded with the necessary amount of coal and 10,000 tons of manganese ore, which was used in the manufacture of shells, the Cyclops proceeded past the Vestris liner, which was making regular flight from Buenos Aires to New York.

The message from the Cyclops said that everything was in order on the ship. But since that time, no other person has met either the ship or any of the people who were on it. When the disappearance was announced, there was a belated order to survey the area of ​​the proposed route. The wreckage was not found, as well as the bodies of people, and the command of the US Navy could not find any intelligible answer to the question of how and why, in fact, the ship sank. It was believed that the mines in that part of the Atlantic did not pose a danger to navigation, and the area of ​​\u200b\u200boperation of German submarines at that time was limited to more northern waters.

Over the many years that have passed since the disappearance of the ship, whole mountains of scenarios for the death of the ship have been proposed: an unexpected local hurricane, a bomb planted by saboteurs, and even a riot on the ship. But no confirmation of these theories appeared, and the investigation, which was conducted by the commission of the fleet after the conclusion of peace, established that during the last voyage of the Cyclops, there were no enemy ships or submarines near its Route. That the ship was swallowed up by the rough sea seemed the most incredible of the options, because he had already managed to show himself as durable, repeatedly tested in 8 years from launching in 1910 in resisting Atlantic storms.

In any case, as it was found out during the investigation, during March - early April there were no reports of storms in the sea near east coast Central America. Joseph Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, wrote of this disappearance: “In the annals of the US Navy, there is no more disconcerting mystery than the disappearance of the Cyclops. President Woodrow Wilson, who had himself gone to great lengths to find any facts that might suggest a solution to the mystery, finally backed down, saying, "Only the sea and God know what happened to that ship.".

It cannot be said that anyone since that time has seriously refuted the president's conclusion. However, the secretary of the fleet was a little cunning: the Cyclops was not the only one of its kind. 1984 June 17 - Panamanian "Arctic Carrier", a 17,000-ton cargo ship, departed from the coast of Brazil with overflowing holds, various goods. IN last time the ship made itself felt, being 300 miles northeast of Tristan da Cunha ( South Atlantic). It is difficult to say what fate befell him, although we know for sure that there was no SOS signal from him, and no bodies or wreckage were found.

It looked as if the ship had never existed at all. The following wording in Lloyd's register brings the riddle to its logical conclusion: "The true reasons for his so unexpected death will probably forever remain a mystery." 1979, the end of October, a ship 4 times larger than the Arctic Carrier, the Berge Vanya ore carrier (Norway), also simply disappeared, being 600 miles east of Cape Town, in wonderful weather, at the intersection of the busiest highways planets. It's hard to even imagine how the ocean could engulf the Berge Vanya so quickly that people didn't have time to give an SOS or even fire a flare gun. But even if this happened, then after all, no one even saw how this floating giant went to the bottom, despite the fact that there were very few means to cause him any harm.

The disappearance of the Treasure of the East, a 28,000 tonne Panama-flagged freighter, is yet another mysterious case. 1982 On January 12, after accepting a cargo of chromium at Mazinlok in the Philippines, the Treasure of the East made it safely to Port Said before disappearing forever. Surprisingly, members of the commission of inquiry concluded that the ship must have been a victim of pirates, although no pirates had been heard of in these waters for over a century. How such a brilliant conclusion without the slightest hint of evidence arose in the minds of venerable experts remains a mystery. One journalist put it this way: "They're just clutching at straws". Meanwhile, the list of missing ships is replenished every year, and now each sea ​​power can “boast” of its own, national registry of ships that have disappeared without a trace.

One of the most impressive losses that hit the English merchant fleet associated with last voyage 170,000 ton freighter Derbyshire. Built in British shipyards in 1980, she sailed from the American port of San Lawrence to Kawasaki, Japan. Its mass was twice that of the Titanic, and in length it contained three football fields. Derbyshire was generally one of the most large ships ever sailing under the red flag of English merchants. Designed specifically for the transport of oil and iron ore, on that voyage before last trip at the very bottom, it was loaded very thoroughly - by 157,000 tons. huge ship managed a crew of 42 under the command of an experienced captain Joffrey Underhill, so in terms of navigation problems could not arise. However, some nevertheless arose, and why - this will forever remain a mystery. The last radio contact with the Derbyshire was on 8 September - she was then 700 miles southwest of Tokyo, and estimated time arrival in Kawasaki was determined early evening eleventh. And this optimistic message turned out to be final. As an English newspaper commented, "there was an everyday radio message - and eternal rest." For what reason such giants simply sink into the abyss in clear weather, without sending calls for help and leaving no traces - all this is beyond the understanding of maritime specialists. Of course, today's ships are better built than their predecessors in the last century, and if in the era of early shipping most of the disasters happened only because of design flaws, then what about the current ones, clad in metal, built with the strictest observance of all safety standards and passed many checks before they were given the opportunity to demonstrate their seaworthiness in practice?

There are no more filibuster fleets to wreak havoc on the oceans, and the chances of sudden weather changes have been greatly reduced by the introduction of satellite weather tracking systems and robust radio communications equipment. And yet ships of all sizes, including the most massive steamships, continue to disappear without a trace. And while the list of missing ships continues to grow, some cryptologists are gradually coming to the conclusion that there are indeed many mysteries in the sea that we have yet to unravel.

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Ancient and modern historical literature reports on the meeting of military and civilian sailors with mysterious animals of the seas and oceans.
Witnesses of these unsafe encounters with monsters unknown to science were both our domestic and foreign citizens, who gave information about them.
For example, former naval officer Yu. Starikov reported that in 1953, in the area of ​​Kunashir Island ( South Kuril Islands) together with the crew of the ship saw a sea serpent that swam not far from the ship at high speed, and then, lowering its head on a long neck into the water, dived without causing splashes.

Another eyewitness, naval officer Yu. Litvinenko, in 1955, together with other members of the crew of sailors, also saw a huge snake in the Tatar Strait, the head of which was the size of a large watermelon and protruded 4 meters above the water. They determined the length of the body at 25 meters.

In the Barents Sea in 1959, the crew of the SKR-55 patrol ship under the command of Captain A. Lezov repeatedly met a swimming kite.
snakes in northern seas were dark brown, while south seas near Antarctica, they were light brown in color and swam in groups of up to 30 individuals.
In July 1966, American travelers Blyth and Ridgway, while in Atlantic Ocean on an ordinary rowing boat, met at night with the Great Sea Serpent. They report that a large snake-like head on a long, flexible neck rose from the water. Bulging eyes the size of a saucer, flickering with a greenish light, examined people. The creature swam, overtaking the boat, and continued to examine the travelers, turning its flat head in their direction. Soon, an animal with a massive powerful body, bending its neck, dived under the water, leaving behind a luminous trail. Describing what they saw, they reported that it was very scary and embraced the feeling of an unprotected rabbit in front of a boa constrictor. People become numb even under the gaze of a far-flying kite.

For example, Canadian fisherman George Zegers, who fished in the area of ​​about. Vancouver, reported: “Suddenly I felt very strange. A shiver ran down his back. I felt someone's eyes on me and looked around. About 50 meters from the boat, a head towered on the neck with a diameter of 30 cm and a length of more than a meter. Two pitch-black eyes stared at me intently. They were big on the head. The head was about 40 cm in diameter and rose 3 meters above the water. The animal watched for no more than a minute and, turning away, swam away. On his back was a sort of dark brown mane."

On July 14, 1993, Canadian pilots Don Berends and James Wells on a Cessna seaplane saw in the area of ​​\u200b\u200babout. Vancouver in Saanish Bay two gray-blue snakes, which, when moving, curved in a vertical plane. Researcher Dr. Bousfield believes that in the month of July, Saanish Bay is a breeding ground for these creatures. At the same time, cubs are produced as live births on the shore at night.

A well-known modern zoologist, professor at the Royal Institute of Natural History in Brussels, Bernard Euvelmans, collected and systematized many such observations in the book "The Giant Sea Serpent". He subdivided them into nine main classes, which include those that look like seals.

Snakes have left a noticeable mark in the mythology of many peoples of the world. They are especially revered in the culture of the East. Here they are considered kind to people, and not a fiend, as in Europe. The eastern "king of dragons" is very powerful and has a length of 0.5 km. All natural elements obey him. He has a werewolf and can take the form of a gray-haired old man. He lives in an underwater palace and is the custodian of untold riches. He controls the oceans, seas, rivers, as well as the economy of all 5 underwater kingdoms, which include dragons of green, red, yellow, white and black countries of the North and the Earth. His retinue is made up of the kings of the dragons of all the seas, along with their wives, daughters, governors. Serpents (dragons) are considered intelligent and non-bloodthirsty.
At the same time, European mythology is replete with fanatically uncompromising struggle with dragons, starting with Zeus, Hercules and others, up to the ideologists of the modern machine-spiritual world.

At the beginning of the XVI century. Swedish scientist Olaus Magnus in his historical and geographical work " Nautical chart» with comments reports on the dangers posed by sea monsters emerging from sea ​​depths. They were dangerous for sailors sailing on small ships. There are also cases when the crew of the ships left the ship for no apparent reason. There were only trembling cats and untouched food on the table.
In recent decades, reports have often appeared in the press that whales, sharks and dolphins in large quantities thrown ashore at different places planets. The most massive emissions of animals are observed off the coast of the South and North America, South Africa, Australia (Tasmania), Japan. The death of animals by years is: 1970 - 250 pcs., 1987 - 3000 pcs., 1988 - 207 pcs., 1989 - 340 pcs. This is incomplete data. Currently, about 130 areas of death of whales, dolphins, and sharks are known.

Mass throwing of animals ashore falls on the period from December to March. Some animals, escaping from a source invisible to us, swim to the shore at great speed, while others get ashore slowly but stubbornly. Being returned by people again to the ocean, they again strive to land. But if these animals were taken to another place and released into the sea, then they sailed away.

In the USA, at Pacific coast, there is a place where dolphins annually pass one or two along the coast in front of thousands of spectators. This phenomenon people called "parade". What caused the death of animals and their "parades"? So far, scientists believe that the cause of this phenomenon may be some kind of physical or physico-biological effect on animals from an unknown source.

Studies conducted with the participation of clairvoyant specialists indicate that cetaceans are thrown out under the influence of powerful energy-wave effects that come from an animal that looks like a giant "sea lion" or a seal. Let's call it the "ocean lion" (OL).
The brain of OL is somewhat more developed than that of dolphins, and can, by hypnotizing, emit high-frequency energy-wave impulses that can plunge cetaceans into a panic or fatal state. This is what makes them flee if they fall into the radiation sector of the OL. The view of this OL and the boundaries of its pulse-wave action are shown in the figure below.

The most distant waves cause anxiety in animals, and the middle ones cause fear, panic, and death.
A similar state of people is observed in certain places in Tibet, the Himalayas, the Tien Shan, as well as when meeting with large UFOs. In such cases, unconscious anxiety is initially felt. With further approach to the object, fear, horror, and then an insurmountable invisible air barrier appear. When you try to pierce this barrier with a stick, it inexplicably shortens by the amount of its penetration into the "barrier". Numerous examples of the energy and hypnotic effects of snakes on animals and even people have been known for a long time. Boas and even snakes can hypnotize and attract prey (rabbit, frog, etc.) with their eyes.

As for the OL, they live in families in ocean caves, which are connected by flooded passages to the air caves of the islands and coasts of the continents. There are at least seven families on the planet. Near Greenland, east of the Caribbean Sea, east of Tierra del Fuego, in the south of the Indian Ocean (near Antarctica), near Solomon Islands, in the Chukchi Sea (to the north of Wrangel Island). Probably, the territory of the ocean is divided between them into zones of influence, as in land animals and people. OLs do not eat cetaceans, they only expel them from their territory by the power of their special energy impact. Studies show that OLs in the Chukchi Sea live approximately 350 km north of the island. Wrangel. This made it possible to establish the presence there of two rocky islands 20 and 6 km long, rising above the water up to 50-70 meters (see the figure below). Givings say that two hundred years ago on big island there were hunters who took refuge from the weather in long catacomb caves, around which there were remains of some large stone structures. Stone and copper tools were also found there. There were also numerous signs on the stones. These islands are waiting for their explorers - archaeologists and geologists. It is possible that these islands are similar to about. Easter. The mysteries and abilities of ocean animals indicate the need to study the energy-wave radiation of aquatic animals and terrestrial reptiles, which are given to them by nature.

The secrets that the ocean keeps in its depths are unlikely to ever be solved by us to the end. Throughout its history, mankind has managed to explore only 5 percent of the sea depths, and therefore it is not surprising that at the bottom of the gloomy depressions and in the failures dark caves amazing creatures that have never been seen before are hiding and sunken ancient cities sleep in eternal sleep... (website)

The sea brings back the drowned

A few years ago, the inhabitants of the Channel Island of Guernsey experienced a real horror: for three days in a row, the ocean brought drowned people to the shore, and “fresh” ones at that. More than forty dead bodies were found, but the police are not able to explain where they came from, since there were no shipwrecks or storms in the area at that time. Further investigations conducted with the participation of Interpol yielded nothing, identification dead people fingerprints as well.

At local residents their own, mostly mystical, versions appeared. So, independent researchers believe that the ocean, most likely, "gathered" corpses from different layers of time or from parallel worlds. However, in this case, it remains a mystery why the ocean did this and why it chose the island of Guernsey for its purpose ...

Unidentified object at the bottom of the sea

I once discovered a strange and very mysterious design at the bottom Baltic Sea Swedish diving team Later, the Ocean X Team even managed to film the object on video, make at least some measurements, but experienced specialists could not establish what it was. The design resembles either a sunken ship of an alien mind, or some ancient altar, and next to it any equipment fails, even a flashlight goes out.

Analysis of samples of the material from which the object was made showed that it is of extraterrestrial origin. Swedish divers are planning to return to their unique find and at the same time are perplexed: why is it of no interest to anyone but them? Moreover, orthodox scholars claim that it is simply stone formation pre-glacial period, without even bothering to go down under the water and explore this “formation” ...

Lost underwater city

Near the coast of India, archaeologists recently discovered the remains of ancient city. Well, what's so amazing, you ask. And the fact that experts estimate the age of those city buildings at 9,500 - 10,000 years, which means that our civilization is much older than is commonly believed.

Can you imagine how many interesting things such underwater ruins can tell people?! Yes, but the trouble is, we ignore everything on land that does not fit into the generally accepted history, or even destroy it. Why do we need underwater artifacts and even entire cities? Therefore, orthodox science is not only in no hurry to explore the remains of the ancient settlement, but also hinders its study in every possible way ...

Voice of the Depths

In 1997 NOAA (National Oceanic Administration) hydrophones recorded a sound called Bloop. Sea explorers have never heard such a loud and unusual “voice of the depths” at all: it turns out that in nature (in their opinion) there are simply no marine animals capable of screaming so loudly and terribly. Or do they still exist? This question is of great concern to independent researchers, who fully admit that in ocean depths ah, animals unknown to us live, perhaps even intelligent ones.

How do they manage to keep people out of sight? Firstly, the World Ocean is huge: even in area it is several times larger than land, not to mention its depth, which makes this world truly immense. Secondly, as some researchers believe, the World Ocean is connected to the deep underground water "reservoirs" of the planet, which can be many times larger than it in volume. In this case, the water element can hide in itself any conceivable and inconceivable forms of life ...

It is no coincidence that there is even an opinion that we have studied the cosmos much better than the ocean depths. And although there is a clear exaggeration in this statement, it accurately conveys the main thing - the water element of the Earth, which is practically at our fingertips, for some reason we cannot study, despite all attempts, from ancient times to the present day. Maybe someone is stopping people from doing this? For example, they are not particularly willing to enter into contacts with us, and even more so to reveal to us the secrets of the deep sea ...