15. Undertow In this seriously frightening video, you see
a diver being swept away by the undertow. The undertow is "the average under-current
which is moving offshore when waves are approaching shore," according to Wikipedia. "Undertow
is a necessary and universal feature: it is a return flow compensating for the onshore-directed
average transport of water by the waves in the zone
above the wave troughs." In this case, undertow can happen anywhere
near the shore at anytime, so it's important that divers - like this one - are aware of
their surroundings. Wouldn't want to get bashed into something due to the force of
the undertow.
14. World's Largest Shark Don't go in the water.
This video is sure to cure you of any desire to swim in the deep blue sea.
Divers caught the world's largest shark, which they nicknamed "Deep Blue," on video. The
50-year-old shark is 20 feet long, 5,000 pounds, and pregnant.
The shark was featured in Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" and also featured in the 2014
doc, "Jaws Strikes Back." Deep Blue is believed to be the largest shark
on video record, and she was spotted in 2013 by Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, a shark researcher,
near Guadalupe Island. "When I saw Deep Blue for the first time,
there was just one thought in my mind: Hope," Padilla said. "A shark of that size is at
least 50 years old and that tells me protection and conservation efforts are really working."
As divers remain in a cage, separating them from this mammoth monster, Deep Blue circles
the cage, menacingly. One completely insane diver then dares to swim outside of the bars.
But even if you're not a deep sea diver, you might come face-to-face with Deep Blue if
you're not careful. As Padilla noted, pregnant sharks near the shore when giving birth, as
they prefer to be on the shallow end of the ocean.
So...unless you want to risk facing this sea monster head-on, it's best to stay on dry
land.
13. Under a Freighter This dive got really dangerous, really quickly.
When the diver decided to dive the St. Clair River, which drains Lake Huron into Lake St.
Clair, he wasn't expecting something dangerous to happen. But danger always seeks adventurers.
As he was swimming, a massive freighter came straight at the diver, forcing him to cling
to the rope that is secured to the rock bed in order to pull himself closer to the rocks
and away from the freighter ship. The camera goes out of focus as the diver's
pulse quickens when he loses balance, due to the freight passing overhead. Fear is in
the freighter's propeller which is spinning only a few short meters from the diver's head.
Most viewers of this diver's video commented just to say how dangerous this was. LockerGremlin1
also noted "watching this video gave me anxiety." You're not alone, LockerGremlin.
12. A Gun YouTuber DALLYMYD often goes diving and posts
his findings on YouTube. But this one prompted him to call the police.
The channel's uploader, Jake from Columbus, Georgia, posted the video on December 29,
2016. When Jake dives the Columbus rivers, he usually discovers a treasure trove of sun
glasses, fishing gear, and cameras. Once he even found an iPhone which was still operating,
and he attempted to return it to its owner. But this day, he would discover something
more. The seemingly innocent dive turned up a possible
murder weapon: a pistol, which he deemed a "one of a kind find" and "almost as cool as
finding a GoPro." He also said it was "most definitely a murder weapon" and wondered if
he should turn it into the police. Of course, he should...and he did.
When the police arrived, Jake gave them the gun. The officer said, "I know for sure we
won't be able to get any finger prints off the gun but we'll take it back try and run
the serial number and find out if it's stolen or anything like that."
Jake admitted that he would have rather kept the gun, because it was a special find in
the river, but in the end, the police would probably get more use out of it...especially
if it had been involved in a crime. Who knew diving might help solve a murder
mystery?
11. Massive Sea Creature This massive sea creature was caught on video
by divers off of an oil rig. The thing looks like a gelatinous mass. It
moves like a jellyfish, but it first does not appear translucent like one. From far
off, it has brownish greyish murky skin, like a brown paper bag. The skin also has a plastic-like
sheen. And when it comes closer, it spreads its body in a way somehow reminiscent of a
flower petal. It appears orange, iridescent, and somewhat translucent.
At 4:12, you are treated to a view of the creature's stomach or teeth or something unidentifiable,
incredible creepy and quite frightening. While most in the comment section of this
video are joke guessing at what this massive sea creature is, saying it's "the blob" or
an "evil fitted sheet monster," Andrei Andro has an accurate answer. He said this creature
was first described in 1967 by F.S. Russel and is called a Deepstaria enigmatica, aka
a jellyfish. He writes: "The bell of this jellyfish is
very thin and wide (up to approx. 10 m), and resembles a translucent, undulating sheet
or lava lamp as the animal moves. They are usually found in Antarctic and near-Antarctic
seas but have been spotted in waters near the United Kingdom, at depths of 829 to 1830
meters." Whether this jellyfish is super dangerous
or not, one thing's for sure: I wouldn't want to run into this thing in the wide open sea.
Too freaking creepy.
10. Underwater Hunter If we all had this underwater hunter's mad
skills, we'd need no oxygen tanks to deep sea dive. This underwater hunter goes deep
sea hunting without air. He takes a deep breath and dives in, hunting bow in tow, to catch
some deep water fish. No diving gear, no fins, nothing. He dives,
kicks, and is off, searching for his next meal. He dives 20 meters to the sea floor,
and at this depth, after exerting himself, his heartbeat slows to around 30 beats per
minute. A normal resting heartrate is 60 to 100 beats per minute. The pressure at these
depths also crushes his lungs, making them one third the size of their normal volume.
He's able to walk across the sea floor as if he were on land, because he's negatively
buoyant enough to do so. He focuses on the hunt, instead of on air, which his lungs are
crying out for. 1.75 minutes underwater without air, and the
hunter spies a fish. Dinner. He shoots it with his arrow. And makes his
way back up. In this video, he remained underwater for 2.5 minutes with one breath. That's scary
and impressive.
9. Dive Gone Wrong Near Miller's Point, South Africa, three divers
attempted their deep advanced dive on the third of March 2012. They dove off the SAS
Good Hope without a care in the world. But soon they'd be praying for their lives...
One diver, Doug, suffered a burst eardrum. This made him experience vertigo, and everything
under the water started spinning like a top. "I had no idea what was up or down...had to
focus on another diver to see where I was," Doug writes.
Doug then signaled to his friend, Waseem, that he was having trouble, so they swam up
a bit. Waseem knocked the diving regulator out of Doug's mouth, which exacerbates the
vertigo. When the instructor came to help Doug, Waseem began panicking. Doug says soon
after Waseem started panicking, he completely blacked out.
Doug and Nikki began to ascend, and Waseem was taken by the instructor. At one point,
Waseem tried to break away from the instructor to reach the surface, but the instructor hung
onto his fin. One of the only divers who tried to keep calm
and carry on was a female diver named Niki. She did, in fact, manage to calm the others.
Waseem doesn't even remember the dive. What was he panicking about? Whatever happened
to him on that dive, we can only guess.
8. Scuba Diving in a Tsunami A tsunami often happens when an earthquake
or volcanic eruption occurs underwater. The resulting seismic waves may hit coastal cities
and destroy whole buildings, taking with them many victims.
Remember that giant wall of water that hit Japan in 2011, resulting in nearly 16,000
people passing away? That was a tsunami. So, who'd be crazy enough to dive when there's
a chance of a tsunami? Turns out, these folks on a video uploaded
by Andrew Chan. One survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
told his story to Haaretz online magazine. Yossi Hasson said he was thrown back all of
a sudden and described the scene as follows: "It's difficult to explain the feeling underwater
– imagine running at full speed against the wind and still being pushed back, against
an enormous, invisible force that is simply impossible to overcome," he said.
As he was being pulled back to the surface, he looked for his girlfriend, who hadn't been
able to traverse the coral walls before the tsunami hit. "Instead, she caught hold of
a cable that was tied to a buoy, because she knew what she had to avoid – ascending too
quickly, lest she suffer the bends," he said. The good thing is, tsunamis aren't impossible
to predict. They often accompany earthquakes. If the diver is in the spinning current, they're
likely to feel as these divers did in the video: like rag dolls, being tossed in a washing
machine.
7. Mysterious Creature in the Dominican Republic In the Dominican Republic in April 2013, uploader
DRLocal encountered a mysterious sea creature during a scooter-powered night scuba dive.
The time was 9:15PM, while the depth was 20 meters.
The creature was reportedly bony, ¾ foot long with a small head and sharp teeth. It
also had translucent fins and a purple and steel sheen colored body. The mysterious creature
swam both backwards and forwards. The dorsal fin helped it maneuver both directions and
propelled it at higher speeds moving forwards, which made it appear more "eel-like," rather
than "blade-shaped," according to the uploader. What could this eel-like creature be?
YouTube commenters, of course, are full of suggestions.
DOOM OCTOPUS said it looked like a young oarfish, while Zane Reifers said it was a cutlass fish.
Both of these seem plausible, but Sam Paul's suggestion seems to be on the nose: "It's
a Hairtail, very common around Sydney Australia usually fished at night by a very dedicated
fishermen. Very sharp teeth and not too bad to eat."
Whatever the thing is, I wouldn't want to run into it in the depths of the sea at night.
6. The Last Dive of David Shaw Aussie scuba diver and Cathay Pacific airline
pilot David Shaw broke a number of diving records in Bushman's Hole, South Africa,
including depth running a line, depth at altitude on a rebreather, depth in a cave on a rebreather
- all in October of 2004. The dive lasted 9 hours and 40 minutes and the cave elevation
was 1,550 meters, or 5,085 feet. During the dive, Shaw found the body of Deon
Dryer at a depth of 270 meters or 885 feet. Dryer was a diver from South Africa who attempted
Bushman's Hole ten years prior and passed away in the process.
Shaw decided to go back under to recover Dreyer's body, about four months later, on the 8th
of January 2005. Recording the deep dive on an underwater camera,
the video showed that Shaw cut Dreyer's harness and found it difficult to maneuver
him when Dreyer's body started floating. Experts had advised Shaw that because the
body appeared to be to its skeletal form, it would be negatively buoyant. But Dryer's
body had become a soapy substance that actually floats inside his wet suit.
As Shaw struggled with the body, the body bag's lines became wrapped up in the light
head of his cave light, which Shaw had set on the cave floor in order to use both hands
to move Dreyer. Researchers later found that Shaw was having respiratory issues from the
high pressure and that the struggle to free himself from the line resulted in his passing.
Both his and Dreyer's bodies were recovered the following day, when they floated to the
surface. This was Shaw's 333rd dive in just over
five years. The footage of his final dive is both sad
and scary to watch, as it reminds you just how careful you must be in any venture underwater.
5. Underwater Earthquake Recorded by Jan Paul Rodriguez. In a resort
area of the Philippines near Manila, earthquakes rocked the island in 2017. And afterwards,
the aftershocks terrorized the land. A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck, followed
by a 6.0 magnitude, which forced many to flee their homes.
The Mayor of Mabini, Noel Luistro, said, "Our tourists left out of fear they may be affected
by the earthquakes. I need to declare a state of calamity." This was at the beginning of
the summer travel season in the Philippines. Many feared a tsunami would follow, as the
villagers rushed to find higher ground, while others, including divers, swam in the sea
as the earthquake struck. This video shows the truly scary impact of an earthquake under
the sea. Reportedly, the first earthquake struck at
a depth of 27 kilometers, and the second at 24.
This isn't the Philippines' first earthquake, and neither will it be the last. The islands
sit on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," known for its volcanic eruptions and not infrequent
earthquakes. In 1990, a 7.7 magnitude quake struck the northern Philippine island, Luzon,
taking the lives of almost 2,000 people. This video is visual proof of the destructive
magnitude of nature underwater.
4. Giant Squid The giant squid used to be a mystery…but
not anymore. Divers caught this giant squid on video. The
monster has deep-sea gigantism, so it can grow to up to 13 meters in length for female
squid and 10 for males. Some claims allege that they can grow up to 20 meters or 65 feet.
2004 saw the first giant squid footage in its natural environment, with images taken
by Japanese researchers. Giant squid are built much like regular squid,
with eight arms, two longer tentacles, and a mantle. Although the squid is massive in
size, it doesn't weigh a lot. The whale is the giant squid's primary predator, and
the squid is much lighter with only hundreds of kilograms, rather than the whale's thousands.
Researchers actually follow whales in order to observe the giant squid, because the whales
were so adept at locating them. Suction cups are found on the inside of the
tentacles and arms, the circumference of which holds sharp teeth. This is a deadly combo
- the suction cups and the teeth - allowing the giant squid to attach to its prey, where
the suction cups leave circular scars. Another live giant squid filming in its natural
habitat occurred in November 2006. Diver Scott Cassell's goal was to film this magnificent
creature in the Gulf of California. They attached their camera to a Humboldt squid's fin,
and the carrier squid was able to catch the 12-meter long giant squid on video. The squid
in question was demonstrating predatory tactics in the video.
This video, however, was the one taken by Japan's National Science Museum. The squid
in this video is an 11-foot female, weighing 50 kilograms or 110 pounds. The team baited
the giant squid with one of medium size and, in an effort to take it aboard the ship, the
giant squid passed away. Believe it or not, the giant squid is superseded
in size by one other mollusk: the colossal squid, whose mantle is almost two times as
long.
3. Prehistoric Shark This underwater video will give you nightmares.
A prehistoric shark, not often seen due to its habitat being more than 600 meters under
the sea, was caught on film by Marine Park staff in Japan.
A fisherman at a port close to the marine park told the staff when he saw the frightening
monster with its grin of sharp teeth and completely spooky overall look.
They then caught the shark which stands at about 1.6 meters or 5 feet and identified
it as a female frilled shark, often called a "living fossil." The species is super primitive,
being as it hasn't really evolved since the prehistoric era.
The staff then moved the ancient fish to a seawater pool, where they could then observe
it swimming. The video here catches the shark opening its jaws and swimming around.
Despite the shark being in poor health and passing away only a few hours after capture,
the marine park official said this was such a rare opportunity to capture video of a live
specimen. He stated: "They live between 600 and 1,000
meters under the water [that's 3,280 feet], which is deeper than humans can go. We think
it may have come close to the surface because it was sick, or else it was weakened because
it was in shallow waters." The sharks are, indeed, rarely viewed alive,
but are sometimes caught dead in trawler nets. I don't think I'd want to come face-to-face
with this creature, dead or alive.
2. Shipwreck Survivor When divers came upon a capsized boat off
the Nigerian coast, they probably didn't expect to find any survivors. After all, it had been
nearly three days since the boat had sank. No human could survive three days underwater...could
they? But, 29-year-old Harrison Okene did.
The cook was working in a tugboat called the Jascon 4 that was towing an oil tanker when
the thing went down and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic at about 100 feet below the
water's surface. The tugboat capsized upside down, taking the other eleven members of the
crew down with it. But Okene was able to squat down in a pocket of air and survive three
days under the ocean on a single bottle of Coke. He also had two flashlights to brighten
the darkness, but they died after less than a day.
Imagine being 100 feet under the sea, in complete darkness, for two whole days. You'd be nearly
hopeless. But that's when Okene heard the sound of a
boat and saw the lights of rescue divers shining through the water. He couldn't believe it.
Then the light disappeared. "He came in but he was too fast," Okene
said, "so I saw the light but before I could get to him, he was already out. I tried to
follow him in the pitch darkness but I couldn't trace him, so I went back."
Okene held his breath and swam through the boat trying to find him, and when he couldn't,
he returned to his slowly receding air pocket. The Dutch diving company DCN were searching
for bodies, not live people. So, when the diver returned to receive a tap on his neck
from Okene, he assumed the man had passed away. He said so into his microphone. But
then he reached his hand to take the body, and Okene reached back and pulled. That's
when the man began to exclaim that he was alive.
The diver came into the air pocket and gave Okene hot water to warm him, after which he
gave him an oxygen mask. He was then put into a decompression chamber for sixty hours before
it was safe to return him to land. He suffers survivor's guilt and has also been
accused or questioned about whether he used black magic to survive. He was even questioned
by his local church pastor. As well, he has P T S D and wakes up at night from nightmares
of shipwrecks. He plans to spend the rest of his days on
dry land.
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1.Final Moments When you record your underwater dive, you
never think you'll be recording your final moments on earth.
That's what Russian diver Yuri Lipski did in April of 2000. He was diving the Blue Hole,
a coral-filled underwater sinkhole that's 394 feet deep on the east coast of in Egypt.
An 130-foot depth is recommended for recreational divers, but technical divers are intrigued
by the structural challenges the Blue Hole has to offer, including The Arch, an 85 foot
long passage that leads from the sink hole to the sea. The beautiful Arch is a struggle
to enter, as it's dark and offers poor visibility. Lipski entered the Blue Hole and dove to little
more than 300 feet, a point at which some might suffer from nitrogen narcosis - a narcosis
that manipulates the mind, inducing euphoria, confusion, hallucinations, impaired judgment
and overconfidence. Whereas most technical divers take along multiple air tanks of trimix
(helium, nitrogen, and oxygen), Lipski brought along only one. He never resurfaced.
Lipski's parents asked another diver to bring Lipski's body back, and when he did,
he discovered the intact video of his last moments. You can feel his fear and distress
in the video as he becomes too disoriented to recover himself.
Lipski is only one of an estimated 130 divers who've lived their last moments in the Blue
Hole within the last fifteen years.
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