12 Mysterious Objects That Show How The Sea Is Full Of Secrets

The oceans occupy about 70% of the Earth’s surface, but only 5% of them have been explored. The great part that we still don’t know hides a series of mysteries and secrets that most likely we will never reveal.

Today, we are going to show you 12 amazing objects that were found under the sea. They reveal a small part of the enormous mystery that the underwater world hides.

The Great Blue Hole is shaped like a perfect circle, just over 300 meters wide and 124 meters deep. It is one of the largest formations of its kind in the world, with an area of ​​about 10 football fields.

100 km from Belize, its appearance dates from approximately 65 million years ago, in the Ice Age. The place was discovered by Jacques Cousteau🇧🇷 In 1971, he claimed it was one of the top 10 places in the world to go diving.

In recent years, as a result of the movement of tectonic plates in North America, Europe and Asia, the distance has increased significantly. This phenomenon can be seen on land or underwater. the marine biologist Alexander Mustard indicated that the plates move, in this case, at approximately 2.5 cm per year.

The ruins of the ancient city of Heracleion were found by the French archaeologist Franck Goddio in the year 20006.5 km off the coast of Egypt and at a depth of 50 meters.

According to legend, Helen of Troy and the hero Hercules visited the city and that’s why it has that name. Until today, scientists carry out research and bring objects to try to find more explanations about the city.

The underwater pyramids of Yonaguni are one of Japan’s great mysteries. They were found in 1987, during a dive that was made off the coast of the island with the same name as the archipelago.

In its structure it is possible to see platforms at different levels and sizes, as well as channels. One of the monument’s walls descends vertically to a depth of 27 meters. According to experts, the pyramids may be more than 10,000 years old.

An incredible underwater river at the bottom of the Black Sea was discovered by British scientists. If this river were on the Earth’s surface, it would be the 6th largest river in the world. With 1 km wide, and depth that in some parts reaches 35 meters, it has waterfalls and whirlpools.

Scientists discovered that the river had formed as a result of the saltier waters of the Sea of ​​Marmara penetrating the Black Sea several centuries ago.

At some unknown time, in the Zhejiang province of China, there was a mysterious city known as Shicheng🇧🇷 Like a great mystery, she just disappeared. The villages that occupied the valley were taken by water from a hydroelectric plant built in 1959. It was only in 2002 that remnants of the ancient city were found submerged 40 meters deep. In an attempt to bring back the villages that had just been swallowed up, machines found what is called the Chinese Atlantis.

This unique museum was created by the English sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor. Located at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea, not far from the island of Grenada, its first objects went to the bottom of the sea in 2006. Currently, the museum has more than 65 sculptures and its collection grows every year. It is a valuable project, a cultural heritage and an important part of nature’s ecosystem.

These deep-water volcanic vents were formed as a result of seawater mixing with magma. They release streams of water and other liquids at a very high temperature, sometimes reaching the 370 °C🇧🇷 They are known as black smokers (black smokers), because the water that comes out of them is very dark, almost black, due to the mineral compounds, rich in iron sulfate.

were discovered in 2008 in the Arctic Circle, between Norway and Greenland. There, 5 ‘black smokers’ were trained. One of them is the height of a 4-story building, one of the largest in the world.

In 2013the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezosfound the components of two rocket reaction engines Apollo 11🇧🇷 They have been at the bottom of the sea since 1969. The engines are part of the first spacecraft that sent astronauts to the Moon.

The tragic story of the Titanic, immortalized in the film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, is always remembered. The ship hit an iceberg in 1912, killing thousands of people. During the process, the ship broke into two parts and the two halves are separated by a distance of 600 meters🇧🇷

These squids, which look more like aliens, known as Magnapinna, were discovered in 1907, but only in 1988 was it possible to register their image. In general, they are found in the Gulf of Mexico, and can reach 8 meters.

In 2007, professor of underwater archeology Mark Holley and his colleague Brian Abbot discovered a mysterious rock, 12 meters deep, in Lake Michigan. After much analysis, a recording of a mastodon was found. Origin and date are still unknown, it’s one of the unsolved mysteries.