10 terrifying facts about the world ocean

5/31/2019

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Geography Story: 10 terrifying facts about the world ocean

The huge body of salt water that covers our planet remains mysterious... really frightening. In fact, we barely know something about that. Read on to find the scariest facts about the Earth's ocean.

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Geography Story: At least 165 people have reportedly “just disappeared” in the ocean over the past 20 years — shutterstock

#2

Geography Story: Ocean creatures have learned to adapt to their surroundings, so we can't see most of them — shutterstock

Rocks, seaweed, reefs – everything is alive in the ocean.

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Geography Story: Human skeletal remains underwater are now a part of new ocean life — shutterstock

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Geography Story: Colossal squids are real creatures that reach the length of 46 ft. — shutterstock

There can be larger specimens, but their existence has not been scientifically documented yet.

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Geography Story: In the ocean, plastic breaks into microplastics - small particles that can't be identified or destroyed. — shutterstock

Like a sponge, plastic pulls in other chemicals. It negatively affects marine life. The amount of trash in the world ocean is now equivalent to 5 grocery bags of garbage per 1 foot of coastline worldwide.

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Geography Story: For centuries, the giant squid was thought to be a myth, which means that other sea monsters can now be waiting to be discovered — shutterstock

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Geography Story: At any point below 1 km, the ocean is entirely black

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Geography Story: The ocean floor is home to 3 million wrecked vessels — shutterstock

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Geography Story: Only 5% of the ocean is explored by people — shutterstock

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Geography Story: You can catch hepatitis, legionnaire’s disease, MRSA, and pink eye while swimming in the ocean — shutterstock

Did these facts surprise you? Which one is the most interesting? What major problems connected with the ocean should humans start solving without delay?

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42 Comments

Michael Roebuck

Like all the wonders of this world we are determined to pollute and mistreat the only home we will ever have. Humanity is bent on self distruction South Africans have become a Nation of Litter Louts . Not A Racist Thing We Do It Regardless . Fast Food Containers / Plastic Bags Will Be Our Legacy For The Future Generations. God Forgive Us.

Shae Deschenes

All of these facts are very interesting but the "Trash", mainly plastics that are in our oceans makes me physically sick. Humans have done nothing but kill, maim and poison almost everything on our earth and as far as I'm concerned they do hardly anything to the ones that do the damage.

Vladimir Orozco

For thousands of years the ocean was only polluted by all the millions of cadavers dumped in it after the wars between nation of the long past, but 20th century arrived with multiple inventions that in a short period of time has caused so much destruction on that body of water. The consequences of our pollution to the ocean can be very well be a major force of accelerating the warming of the planet.

dlh

mother talked about a cousin that disappeared off his boat in the Ocean prior to WWII. Very mysterious, boat had all supplies, he had no personal problems, and no sign of violence on the boat. The only clue he told a friend he saw something he should not have seen near the docks!

debbie

Hep and pink eye? What have we done to our planet

Sean Davitt

I can not even imagine what type of life exists in our oceans that is yet to be discovered

Hazel Piper

Michael Roebuck, Sadly so true. It's humans that are destroying the planet....certain ones for greed and profit with no consciences! ☹😢

lmoores

We are determined to destroy everything we come into contact with.

Tina Marie Haddad Rhodes

Shae Deschenes, very true and very right.

Tina Marie Haddad Rhodes

Michael Roebuck, America is no better. Littering you would think is America’s favorite pass time, especially where I live. It the saddest thing to see how we are ruining our world. Someday the planet is going to fight back.

William Scotton

As regards people disappearing, think of the Marie Celeste.

Vikram Mangaldas Ahiwale

Since only 5% of the Dear ocean is explored & their is a vast and enormous Big Book of Unknown knowledge yet to be explored.So we are just a spike of people how just fight irrationally.Anyway.

Banibrata Mukherjee

Informative and useful.

nottap

And let’s not forget the earth we have under our feet. The uncontested murder of horned omnivores has become a threat to all of us, not to mention the polar regions of our world. The sea is our last frontier and I cannot think about the future if we allow it to be destroyed too

Robert Mookerdum

gilliganisland olson, Pigs are highly intelligent creatures unlike human beings who have been blessed with intelligence and logical thinking but act as morons.Comparing pigs to humans is an insult to the pigs.