30 Of The Creepiest Facts About The Ocean You Might Wish You Never Knew, As Shared In This Online Thread

Ocean Acidification.

Increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) lead to higher concentrations of dissolved CO2 in surface seawater. This results in ocean acidification, which may affect the growth of the photosynthetic phytoplankton that form the basis of marine food webs.

So, total marine ecosystem collapse due to greenhouse emissions, the ocean produces more than half of the oxygen on earth, so that doesn't bode well for us.

Well Crippin should have dumped his wifes remains in the ocean because not an ounce of food goes to waste including the bones.

If you need to get rid of a mass grave don't bury dump at sea and the entire body will be eaten which will actually be beneficial to the ecosystem as a whole.

We shouldn't be burying people but dumping them at sea.

94% of the Earth's oceans are just pitch black darkness.

https://www.deepseanews.com/2014/11/we-dont-know-the-ocean/

If you commit suicide by jumping off a ship in deep water you will never be found, happens often enough on cruise ships, in those warm waters you'll be nibbled away before you gain buoyancy and return to the surface

The ocean is blue because all the other pigments are absorbed. So after a certain distance down everything thing becomes a monotone blue color, unless you have some other light source.

The freaky part is if a diver gets cut underwater the blood looks black, like ink. All the red has long since been absorbed so there’s no wavelengths left to show you a red color when you bleed.

There are more viruses in the ocean than there are stars in the Milky Way.

There are parts of the ocean which are dead no oxygen in the water which means nothing can survive, no fish no plankton nothing at all. They are spreading exponentially. Whilst they are tiny now and have been. At the rate of growth. They’ll cause serious problems before the end of the century.

The Mariana trench is deeper than Everest is tall.

The fact that scientists think we have discovered more of outer space than we have of the oceans just scares me considering we don’t even know how big our universe is

When sea creatures die in the ocean and their bones sink to the deep ocean floor, zombie worms eat the bones. The skin secretes an acid dissolving the bones, digesting the remaining fat and protein left behind.

There are HUGE plastic islands in every ocean. It's horrible!

Dolphins will r*pe almost any living thing, including humans.

They do thus so much to the point where sharks are scared to go near them.

Also Whales don't die of old age

Rather, as they become older, their muscles become weaker causing them to not be able to swim and, as a result, drown, meaning that it's almost impossible for a whale to die of old age

Its well known but I feel like people just disregard how much stuff we've lost in the ocean.

Like important pieces of history, military ships, planes, PEOPLE.

And it's not just recent history? Like we still are finding ancient ships and mechanical things, skeletal remains and so on.

That and all the statues and cities and things we've found sunk is incredibly terrifying. Because we just didn't know they were there?

Like not including the things we haven't explored in the ocean that's native to the ocean, we have so much stuff to find in there.

Like we still *technically* don't know what happened to Amelia Earhart. We think we found what might've been her remains on an island but we don't know if that was her or not. And where's her plane?

Not to mention that while we have no clue how common it is people dump bodies in the ocean.

Like. The ocean is a massive graveyard for bodies, vehicles and history.

Just one millilitre of coastal water taken from the ocean's surface can contain up to 10 million viruses. The number of viruses decreases further offshore and deeper into the water.

The deepest level of the ocean, the hadal zone or the hadopelagic zone (the terms are interchangeable), is so far underwater that there is little to no oxygen. It averages around 1100 standard atmospheres, which is like 16000 psi. For reference, the standard atmosphere of Earth is around 14 to 15 psi.

For context, the hadal zone is anywhere from 6,000 to over 10,000 meters below sea level, and we really can't be 100% sure that Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean, since we've only mapped around 20% of Earth's oceans.

Good news: it's unlikely any giant sea monsters live in the hadal zone. It's not exactly a habitable place. Bad news: animals, especially sea creatures, can adapt to incredibly harsh conditions.

This is the result of a Googling binge I did a few weeks back when I started looking into deep sea creatures to base a terrifying mermaid off of.

It’s a little known fact that the ocean has extremely high levels of DHMO in it (dihydrogen monoxide).
This substance is incredibly dangerous when inhaled, and it leads to suffocation.
It’s literally everywhere in the ocean and no one seems to mind or even care

Each ocean is a mass gravesite and we all go swimming in it and some of us end up in it

That it's expected to be septic by 2050.

Blue Whales cum 20 litres of sperm each time they ejaculate. That's gotta leave a taste.

Any time you're in the ocean you're swimming with some number of dead bodies in the same body of water as you. This isn't an unknown fact but it's disturbing to think about and it's always creeped me out.