ONLY 10% of the Ocean on Earth has been explored?! [Pic]

Iceboy

Imagine what lurks down there...

http://alpentraum.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/opynh.jpg


EDIT: Another interesting perspective http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lakes_and_oceans_large.png

krudler

in the Mariana Trench? Megalodons.

http://ithoughtallthiswouldbeeasier.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/megalodon_scale12.png


These things existed, safe to say if they were still around nobody would go on the ocean in anything less than an aircraft carrier.

bfocusd

http://www.moviemobsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/finding_nemo_dory_marlin_angler_fish.jpg

galwayrush

Oil...

beeroclock

Tesco trollies

Thrill

Iceboy wrote: »

Imagine what lurks down there...

http://alpentraum.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/opynh.jpg

I'm still trying to imagine what type of creatures lurks Boards. The ocean will have to wait.

Battered Mars Bar

Mine's bigger

goose2005

water

jester77

Doubt there is much scarier looking than a fangtooth fish down there

Iceboy

Vampire squid, intradesting

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/images/i/3425/i02/vampire-squid-110929-02.jpg?1320174877

Iceboy

jester77 wrote: »

Doubt there is much scarier looking than a fangtooth fish down there

What? we HAVENT explored it at all. There may be loads of sh*t living down there.

beeroclock

Iceboy wrote: »

Vampire squid, intradesting

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/images/i/3425/i02/vampire-squid-110929-02.jpg?1320174877

wow that's an interesting looking species alright

Iceboy

Iceboy wrote: »

Vampire squid, intradesting

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/images/i/3425/i02/vampire-squid-110929-02.jpg?1320174877

Fookin hell Jedward are everywhere

Thrill

This came up from the depths recently

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/ht_james_cameron_deepsea_challenge_ll_120326_wg.jpg

Joey the lips

Fitzpatrick/Fingleton/ahern/flynn.

Hopefull the hole lot of them are down there rotting because even hell is not hot enough.

Check out these creepy unexplained noises from the deep picked up on hydrophones.

Read more here.

Mrmoe

Friendly crustaceans under the seaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

44leto

Spongebob squarepants.

Who the hell came up with that acid trip of a cartoon.

chughes

I realise this is After Hours but we really are plumbing the depths in this thread.

entropi

You'll find this guy, and Bikini Bottom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ZHKf0FUBA

Archeron

At least its Cthulu, I saw him on a tv show recently and he seemed pretty sound.

McChubbin

44leto wrote: »

Spongebob squarepants.

Who the hell came up with that acid trip of a cartoon.

Stephen Hillenburg actually started out as an oceanographer before switching his major to animation.

FloatingVoter

I had an awesome **** in the Atlantic once. I'll bet thats still lurking about somewhere.
I felt the need to share this with you all.

charlemont

You go a sleeping with the fishes...

Tea_Bag

Maddie?

rusty_racer94

Check this out:

http://www.mastersdegree.net/explore-the-ocean/

44leto

McChubbin wrote: »

Stephen Hillenburg actually started out as an oceanographer before switching his major to animation.

Switching his major to acid and going by his cartoon he would have massively failed oceanography, it is so unrepresentative of marine life.

EdenHazard

Thats crazyyyyy! The depth is just sick

entropi

FloatingVoter wrote: »

I had an awesome **** in the Atlantic once. I'll bet thats still lurking about somewhere.
I felt the need to share this with you all.

Pretty apt username you got there...

dj jarvis

i remember hearing on a radio show once , about the fact that the British army/navy after ww1 and ww2 dumped obsolete, un used and out of date munitions into a deep trench in the Irish sea , about halfway between both Islands

what they did not know at the time ( or maybe they did :eek: ) is that a large collection of explosives in the same place in salt water does not guarantee that it wont explode

as it get older the type of munitions used, decay and become more and more unstable - and with this a higher chance of detonation

i dont remember the tonnage of stuff down in this trench but the interview did state that residents in coastal areas of germany , holland and france will hear this when it goes up ( again according to the interviewee )

wish i had links to this story , i would love to read about it myself

if Germany will hear it go up , how much stuff in down there ?????

My name is URL

rusty_racer94 wrote: »

Check this out:

http://www.mastersdegree.net/explore-the-ocean/

The fish in that graphic look a bit stoned

Doc Ruby

dj jarvis wrote: »

if Germany will hear it go up , how much stuff in down there ?????

If Germany hears it going off at that depth, you're talking gigatons, so I doubt its true.

The ocean is cool though, maybe one of the positives about global warming is we'll be forced to explore and take advantage of it more as it swallows our cities.

Also, Ia Ia Cthulhu Fthagn!

Riddle101

44leto wrote: »

Spongebob squarepants.

Who the hell came up with that acid trip of a cartoon.

More importantly why did they make it for kids? i'm pretty sure this type of cartoon would be more suited to stoners etc.

FloatingVoter wrote: »

I had an awesome **** in the Atlantic once. I'll bet thats still lurking about somewhere.
I felt the need to share this with you all.

FlutterinBantam is that you?

dj jarvis wrote: »

i remember hearing on a radio show once , about the fact that the British army/navy after ww1 and ww2 dumped obsolete, un used and out of date munitions into a deep trench in the Irish sea , about halfway between both Islands

what they did not know at the time ( or maybe they did :eek: ) is that a large collection of explosives in the same place in salt water does not guarantee that it wont explode

as it get older the type of munitions used, decay and become more and more unstable - and with this a higher chance of detonation

i dont remember the tonnage of stuff down in this trench but the interview did state that residents in coastal areas of germany , holland and france will hear this when it goes up ( again according to the interviewee )

wish i had links to this story , i would love to read about it myself

if Germany will hear it go up , how much stuff in down there ?????

Hmm, those things have been there their for almost 100 years. How long would it take them to explode?

Gerty

Deleted User wrote: »

Check out these creepy unexplained noises from the deep picked up on hydrophones.

Read more here.

I was really hoping for a more interesting explanation then moving ice. For f**k's sake.

steddyeddy

Very true also Ill add a lot of jungles and forests are only very superficially explored. Im willing to bet theres a lot of large creatures to be discovered in the worlds oceans.

When WW2 naval submarine veterans met george bush they were asked did they see much wildlife. They responded that they saw plenty of wildlife not currently known to man and they said something that always fascinated me "theres things a lot bigger than the blue whale in the sea"!!

jockeyboard

I'd like to explore your ocean wha!!???

EdenHazard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCw16_Yxid0

Scientists believe the sound was made by an animal

Several times louder than loudest biological sound

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Check out these creepy unexplained noises from the deep picked up on hydrophones.

That is a Dart pulling into a station.

Gerty

cisk wrote: »

That is a Dart pulling into a station.

He's cracked it folks! 15 years and he has just gone and done it.

steddyeddy

Well in relation to the sound at the time people said it was a large cephalopod (octopus or squid amongst other things). A cephalopod big enough to produce that sound would be 200 feet across at least.

Fighting Irish

Joey the lips wrote: »

Fitzpatrick/Fingleton/ahern/flynn.

Hopefull the hole lot of them are down there rotting because even hell is not hot enough.

alright man chill out

enjoying your mortgage?

Joey the lips

Fighting Irish wrote: »

alright man chill out

enjoying your mortgage?

Yip. Nothing wrong with my mortage. But it kills me the pain of others.

wilkie2006

Iceboy wrote: »

Imagine what lurks down there...

http://alpentraum.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/opynh.jpg

krudler wrote: »

in the Mariana Trench? Megalodons.

http://ithoughtallthiswouldbeeasier.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/megalodon_scale12.png

Iceboy wrote: »

Vampire squid, intradesting

http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/images/i/3425/i02/vampire-squid-110929-02.jpg?1320174877

There is no fucking way that I'd be a deep sea explorer. Not a fucking chance that I'd have gotten into Cameron's submarine last week.

Fuck. That.

Bruthal

wilkie2006 wrote: »

Not a fucking chance that I'd have gotten into Cameron's submarine last week.

They should put Kenny in it instead, and send it to the bottom.

smash

jester77 wrote: »

Doubt there is much scarier looking than a fangtooth fish down there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mneDhOtVEQw

wilkie2006

smash wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mneDhOtVEQw

There was someone swimming alongside that?!?! Jaysus :eek:

stateofflux

wilkie2006 wrote: »

There was someone swimming alongside that?!?! Jaysus :eek:

typical...poor crater died when they took it out of its natural habitat... hopefully it is just a small scout for the bruvas down in the trench

Kev_2012

Deleted User wrote: »

Check out these creepy unexplained noises from the deep picked up on hydrophones.

Read more here.

The 3rd one reminds me of this eerie aural experience...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlJNyK9F3pA

Riddle101

smash wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mneDhOtVEQw

I bet a 100 years ago, if people had seen that they'd have called it a sea monster. It's kind've fits the description of what a sea monster would look like from my point of view.

krudler

wilkie2006 wrote: »

There is no fucking way that I'd be a deep sea explorer. Not a fucking chance that I'd have gotten into Cameron's submarine last week.

Fuck. That.

google image colossal squids, its basically a squid the size of a blue whale, these things exist.

ancient sea creatures are fcuking terrifying, the Liopleurodon, sweet jesus.

there's a series of books called Meg that are about a Megalodon discovered in the Mariana Trench, total hokum but great fun to read, imagine Jurassic Park but with sea monsters. a 70ft shark, shudder.

Professey Chin

Release the Kraken O_o