The sea is 95% unexplored, obscure, concealed by human eyes," Fred Gorell, the head of open undertakings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Ocean Exploration and Research division, tells Mashable in a meeting. "Each time we go off on a campaign, we see something new, or something accepted to be new."
All things considered, there's an exacting universe of wonders left to investigate and clarify. For Gorell, a standout amongst the most famous instances of exactly how obscure the sea is originates from a camera venture around 2004. Named Operation Deep Scope, a group of adventurers set a non-prominent camera on the base of the profound sea off the Gulf of Mexico. In a moment, another disclosure was made.
"This one camera in one spot in under a moment of activity imaged a video of a six-foot squid that had never been seen, not known to exist with us on the planet," Gorell says. " what number different riddles are in the sea?"
It's an apparently perpetual number, particularly when you factor in the inconceivably extreme work of ocean investigation. The sea's breadth requires an enormous number of individuals to cautiously keep watch on submerged cameras. It would take a NOAA traveler an "exceptionally [huge] part of their future life" to consider the pictures rolling in from progressing endeavors, Gorell says evidently. For the not so distant future, your interests about the Bermuda Triangle should go unsolved for the present.
Here are five ocean mysteries science still hasn't
solved.
1. The four submarine disappearances of 1968
It was a bad year for
submersibles. In 1968, four separate submarines from different countries
completely disappeared. There was the USS Scorpion (U.S.), the INS Darak
(Israel), the Minerve (France) and the K-129 (Soviet Union).
Theories around
the unrelated disappearances vary, from accidental torpedo self-firing to
attacks kept under wraps by the government (particularly between the Scorpion
and K-129). All four missing subs still have no explanation, and considering
how deep the potential remains could have sunk, an explanation might never
arrive.
2. A cannibal shark in Australia
Possibly the only thing
scarier than a shark is a cannibal shark. After scientists recovered a tag that
had been tracking a nine-foot long great white, they discovered something
surprising.
The shark had suddenly dove 1,903 feet, the temperature on the
tag going from 46 degrees Fahrenheit to 78 degrees Fahrenheit.
The only way the temperature could change that swiftly is if the shark
had been eaten by
something larger.
Congratulations, sharks
– you're more terrifying than we thought.
3. The 'Atlantis of Japan'
The lost city of
Atlantis is a favorite among mystery buffs. But Japan might have a similar
mystery of its own.
In 1986, a local diver near Yonaguni Jima, an island south Japan, discovered a large section of underwater formations.The structures, according to Masaaki
Kimura, a marine geologist at the University of Ryukyus, look like castle
ruins, five temples, a stadium and a triumphal arch.
Some believe they're
the ruins of an ancient city, buried by a powerful earthquake. Others, like
Boston University professor Robert Schoch, call the structures all natural and
a classic case of "basic geology," because sandstone tends to break along
planes into straight edges.
4. The Milky Sea Phenomena
Sailors of yore used to
tell tales of suddenly encountering "pale,
milky, glowing waters." As it turns out, it wasn't just a fisherman's
tale. In 1995, a British merchant vessel documented that the sea looked "milky-white."
Modern scientist, like Steve Haddock at the Monetary Bay Aquarium Research Institute, have discovered that luminous bacteria or bio luminescent
dinoflagellates are the source of the glow, though it was all still theoretical
at the time of a 2005 study.
A follow-up study from
Haddock and three other scientists concluded that the bacteria glows to attract
fish, so it can be ingested and live inside of it.
The bacteria gathers in
the trillions, but scientists still don't know what caused "such a massive
bacteria population explosion."
"There are still
far more questions than answers surrounding milky seas," the study says.
"We have gained a new sense for how very little indeed we really know
about the place we call 'home.'"
5. The Bermuda Triangle
After numerous
disappearances, the Bermuda Triangle has cut quite a name for itself in the
world of mystery and conspiracy theories. Major tragedies began in
1918, when the U.S. Navy ship USS Cyclops disappeared in the stretch of
Atlantic Ocean, bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. No S.O.S. distress
call was sent before the ship and its crew of 300 vanished into the great
unknown, according to History.
In 1945, five Navy bombers got lost flying over the region, compasses failing
to work. They eventually lost fuel and had to land in the sea. When a rescue
plane was sent to find them, it disappeared along with the men in the bombers.
Theories about the disappearances range from
the supernatural, from aliens to rips in the space time continuum.
The latest scientific theory is that gas hydrates created sinkholes near the region.
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