23 Disturbing But Interesting Facts About The Ocean That'll Freak You Out & Make You Say 'Whoa?!'

We, humans, have a deeply curious nature, and more often than not this curiosity is typically focused on the minor tittle-tattle in our daily lives. We constantly eager to learn new things about this universe. When it comes to the deep blue ocean, there are many mysteries that we don't fully understand, from the monsters to the shipwrecks. Now, let's dive deep into the blue ocean to explore the most interesting facts.

A redditor posted the question that asked, "What are some disturbing facts about the ocean?". The thread went viral quickly. And it had received about 2,000 responses. They shared the most disturbing but intriguing facts about the area of darkness, coldness, and deadly creatures, and some of those facts that will truly creep you out. We have picked some of the best ones. Scroll down to check them out for yourself. Let's start learn these disturbing but interesting facts about the ocean.

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#1. Point Nemo

Point Nemo is the most isolated place in the world. It's in the middle of the South Pacific gyre, which is a massive rotating current that basically keeps any nutrients rich water from ever getting in. So there is no sea life anywhere to be found except for a few crabs and bacteria that live near some thermal vents on the ocean floor. It's so far away from any land that if you sailed there the closest people would be on the international space station. This is the location HP Lovecraft was describing when he provided the location of R’Lyeh where Cthulu and the other old ones live, although Lovecraft's coordinates were slightly off.

And in 1997 the loudest unidentified underwater sound ever recorded, known as "the bloop", originated near there. It was loud enough that it was recorded from multiple sensors 5000 miles apart and lasted for over a minute.

The prevailing theory is that it was ice cracking off the south pole but we don't actually know what caused it for sure.

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#2. When a whale dies...

When a whale dies, it creates a whole new ecosystem.

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#3. The Gulf Stream

The Gulf Stream is created by the melting of ice from the north polar ice cap. That ice cap is rapidly disintegrating. Once it's gone, the Gulf Stream is gone. Once the Gulf Stream is gone, the weather pattern for the whole northern hemisphere dramatically changes.

This will be catastrophic.

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#4. No no...

I remember watching a YouTube interview with a military diver. He described how when you’re doing a covert op you spend a lot of time just underwater doing nothing with no lights on until it’s time to move.

He specifically mentioned how he had to get used to having large things bump into him in the pitch black.

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#5. The underwater

I’m a scuba diver and one thing that really scared me when I first started off diving, you hear SO MUCH more underwater then you ever will above on the surface, I’m not even talking about like the shifting or just the water itself moving, your hear things like fish clicking and other things like that, cuz underwater sounds move and travel a lot more so you hear a lot more and much quicker, was pretty out of nowhere when I first went under.

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#6. The sea monsters

We don't really know what is in it. I can say that for thousands of years we drew sea monsters believing they lived in it. Surprising a lot of stuff we found in those pictures was in the ocean. (Giant Squid recently). Just makes you think what else is actually down there that we don't know about.

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#7. The deep blue darkness

This story is corroborated by the survivors. During one of the world wars, a ship was sunk and 11 survivors clung to a lifeboat until one of them was dragged down into the abyss by a "cephalopod". If he wasn't killed by the animal's beak, he would have died a horrific pressure death while the cephalopod probably rapidly descended with its life prey. It's not possible to say which species this cephalopod belonged to, but the Giant Squid and Colossal Squid are the largest and heaviest known so far. And some scientists speculate there might lurk an even more massive species of cephalopods deep down in the ocean.

And whenever you sail by boat and look down into the deep blue darkness of the ocean, remember that the probability will never be zero to be suddenly grabbed by one and dragged down into the total darkness, dying a horrible, horrible death.

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#8. Tragically poetic

It doesn't hate you. It doesn't love you. It doesn't even know you exist. When it destroys/capsizes your boat your boat didn't even cause a change in its movements.

I am a sailor and I am in love with a cold heartless b**ch who couldn't care less whether I live or die.

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#9. The largest biomass migration

The largest biomass migration takes place every night when deep sea animals come up to feed.

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#10. "The ocean doesn’t care about you"

I tell new scuba divers this: The ocean doesn’t care about you. It’s not actively trying to kill you. But it will do a lot of things on its own that will absolutely kill you if you’re not prepared and paying attention.

I realize this could apply to any natural environment but it feels much more apt when talking about the ocean. One wave that you weren’t prepared for can make your day pretty bad. For the ocean, it’s just business as usual.

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#11. The plastic pollution in the ocean

Most of the plastic pollution in the ocean is not from straws, shopping bags, or consumer items as most of us were led to believe. It’s from fishing nets and fishing gear.

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#12. The sonar

The sonar we use for deep sea mapping really screws up a number of species especially whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Imagine walking around and a tornado alarm decibel-level noise triggers right next to you. We do that every time we use that high-powered sonar and it basically f's up their own sonar abilities causing them to be unable to communicate and navigate.

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#13. Lost sailors

Lost sailors in the sea who cling to wreckage basically have their skin dissolved by salt water after soaking for more than 3 days.

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#14. Shipwrecks from ancient Greece

There are perfectly-preserved shipwrecks from ancient Greece preserved at the bottom of the Black Sea. The water is so deep that it becomes anoxic (oxygen-free), which preserves organic materials like wood.

Shipwrecks are cool, but I find the phenomenon a little disturbing since there is probably no life down there.

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#15. Hot tub of despair

"Hot tub of despair" is a lake under the ocean, in the Gulf of Mexico. It is highly concentrated with salt and has dissolved methane. Any creature that enters dies.

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#16. The top of the food chain in the ocean

When you dip your toe in the water you are no longer at the top of the food chain.

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#17. 95% of the ocean is still undiscovered

Only 5% of the entire ocean in the world has been discovered, which means that there is still 95% unmapped.

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#18. The underwater oceans, rivers, and waterfalls

Depending on the person then this could be scary or really cool.

Oceans can have underwater oceans, rivers, and waterfalls. Due to different water temperatures and density and all that scientific nonsense.

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#19. The Mauna Kea Volcano

The Mauna Kea Volcano in Hawaii is both the tallest Undersea mountain and the tallest volcano in Hawaii. It sits 6000 meters below the surface of the ocean and stands a staggering 4000m above. Giving it an overall height from the ocean floor to a peak of 10,000m.

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#20. Ocean acidification

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

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#21. To get rid of a mass grave

Well Crippin should have dumped his wife's 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.

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#22. Buoyancy

Once you get to a certain depth your buoyancy changes and you actually start getting pulled down instead of floating up

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#23. The viruses

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

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