WEBVTT - CLASSIC: Could Sea Monsters/Serpents Still Exist? 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:05.199 Oh, friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realist, oh hooy sailors. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.640 We have investigated at length the idea of a continuing 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.680 fascination cryptids. 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:14.280 And I think we were all. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:21.240 We were all just unanimously astounded by the idea that 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:28.319 there could have been large creatures out there beneath the 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:33.280 waves in recent periods of history, recent enough that human 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.479 beings may have run into them. Guys, I spent a 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.319 lot of time looking out over the ocean in one 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.519 of our previous maritime adventures. I saw some usual stuff, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.400 but I didn't see a sea serpent. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.760 Did you never seen one? Hope to never do, because 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.120 that is one of my all time night terrors. I 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.080 think I've mentioned being present in a giant body of 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.760 water with a sea serpent lurking just beneath the waves. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.480 Even if it's not one that's gonna eat me, Just 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.480 the large underwater dwelling creatures freak me out, Dude. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:11.240 I often stand astride the ships and look out and 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:16.280 imagine Jason Statham when that megalodon attacked to I don't 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.480 know mega seen the movie the movie whatever it is. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.080 The first meg is a lot of fun. I think 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.319 the second one diminishing returns. But uh, I watched the 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:25.600 first one's good plane movie. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:26.360 Do check it. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:27.200 Well. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.560 The point is there were like sea serpents and all 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.480 kinds of craziness out there in the ocean. Giant sharks 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.560 like that. They there have been those, but could there 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.759 be one or some or a bunch of them remaining? 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.559 Yes, yeah, far beyond our imaginings, Dear Horatio. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:48.600 Before we get into. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.240 This classic episode, we also, of course want to shout 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:56.440 out folks like the Swedish musician Matthias Krantz, who this 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:02.080 is true story, guys taught an octopus to play piano. Ah, 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.880 we can't wait, Oh my gosh, Please tell us weird 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.919 stuff you've seen in the oceans. This is our classic episode. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.680 From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:20.080 riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.120 learn the stuff they don't want you to know. A 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:30.760 production of iHeartRadio. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.639 Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.000 my name is Noah. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.880 They call me Ben. We are joined as always with 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:46.639 our super producer Paul. Mission control decands, most importantly, you 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.160 are you, You are here, and that makes this stuff 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:54.720 They don't want you to know. Longtime listeners or recent 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.960 listeners welcome. You'll notice that we are continuing a bit 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.919 of a maritime trend today. We didn't plan this, It 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:08.200 just happened. We're tackling one of the oldest oceanic questions 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:13.519 in human existence. For thousands and thousands of years, human 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:18.000 beings have both feared and worshiped the ocean, as well as, 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:22.080 of course, the things believed to live within it. So 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:27.040 fast forward to the current day. Good for us human species. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.079 We have learned a great deal about the ocean over 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.320 the past several millennia, and we still rely on it 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:39.120 for food. Nowadays we can pretty often travel across it safely, 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.720 but we have by no means conquered the ocean. In fact, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.400 we know more about the Moon right now than we 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.840 do about Earth's oceans. The briny deep, in short, is 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:55.040 still flooded with mysteries. That was not an intentional pun. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:59.600 But here's the point. Today's question, is it possible that 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:05.120 see serpents, the legendary sea monsters of old, still exist today. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.600 To answer this question, we have to learn what little 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.320 we do know about the ocean already. So here are the. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.360 Facts and Just to be clear, when we're talking about 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.839 the ocean and oceans, we really mean the oceans, the seas. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.200 The place is where there's briny water, right where it's 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:26.360 very deep. That's what we're referring to today. So anywhere 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.320 in the world, not just in one particular place. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.560 Right, Yeah, So not just the Pacific, not just maybe 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.600 the Indian Ocean, but the whole shebang, you know what 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.080 I mean, like literally all of the water, or as 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.200 we'll come to find out, ninety seven percent of all 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:46.400 the water. So we've often heard people say things like, 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.640 you know, we know less about the ocean than we 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:53.520 do about outer space. That's a little misleading, but we 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.520 definitely do know more about Earth's moon than we do 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.560 about Earth's oceans. I mean, when you think about it, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:04.120 the numbers get weird if you believe the official stories. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.120 That's for a different episode. We've sent twelve people to 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.880 the moon since about nineteen sixty nine, yet in comparison, 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:16.000 we've only sent three people to the deepest part of 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.800 the ocean, one of them being James Cameron, who makes 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.280 an appearance in here. As a matter of fact, the 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:27.520 old Hollywood legend is that James Cameron mainly wanted to 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.560 do Titanic as a way of getting support for his 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.080 trip to the Marianas. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.599 Trench, which is very cool. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.080 Yeah, he had a cute little like pod thing that 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.680 he went down in, right, like a kind of a 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.640 future you look in under the c mini sub with 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.960 like grabberclaw arms or maybe i'm hyperbolyzing here. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.480 No, no, no, that's a pretty good description. I mean, 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.480 that's that's the only way to get down there. And 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.159 those people who have gone to the deepest part of 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:59.000 the ocean, again, we're only counting the people who came back. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.200 You know, it's completely plausible that a lot of people 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.960 died and their bodies eventually drifted to some very deep 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.000 part of the seafloor. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.240 Well, and the ones that did come back, we're all 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.440 completely mad. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.880 There we go nice setup that. Yeah, yeah, we know 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.200 that there. Despite the fact that there have only been 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.800 a very very small amount of people who went to 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.000 what we call the deepest part of the ocean, we 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.520 know that there is a lot, a lot down there. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.960 The ocean takes up about seventy one percent of Earth's surface, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:35.240 and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, whose research we 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.760 lean on a lot. In this episode, they note that 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:43.960 about ninety five percent of that oceanic surface the seafloor. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:49.240 They call it unexplored, And it depends on what you 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.720 mean by explored, but I think it's a fair way 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.000 to look at it, especially when we learn more about 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.600 the stats and geography. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:57.520 Of the ocean. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.760 Quick question, guys, do you think they worked awkwards from 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.040 that acronym to like what words we're going to be 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.200 in it? You know, because Noah and Noah's Ark and 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:06.720 all that, and they're like, Okay, we got to make 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.279 this Noah thing work. It's such a good image. 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:14.559 I thought about that, but I didn't. I didn't nail 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.520 down the story because it would be my speculation. It 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.480 just it feels like if they're trying to purposefully spell Noah, 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.680 then they would have done a better job. There's so 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.520 many things that begin with H. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.520 Well, some mysteries are just better left unsolved. So it's 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:36.280 true what we loosely describe as the ocean in swishy 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.880 quotation fingers has a volume of around one point three 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:45.400 three two a billion cubic kilometers. I say that doubly 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.920 because the word is spelled out several times in the 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.120 research materials I'm looking at just to drive home. That's 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.000 a lot of cubic kilometers, my friends, And that works 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.520 out to be about three hundred and fifty two quintillion 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.800 gallons of water. That's just like a completely unfathomable number 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.520 right there in my mind at least. And that's ninety 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.360 seven percent of the water on the entire planet. Another 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.760 two percent is locked up in glaciers and ice caps, 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.440 and a tiny part is in water vapor floating through 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:21.119 the atmosphere, and an even tinier part is inside of us. All. Oh, man, 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:23.720 it was there all along, it was there all along, 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:24.160 you guys. 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.480 It's the majority of the human body actually, about up 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.400 to sixty percent of you specifically you, if you're human 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.679 and listening to this, about sixty percent of your body 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:34.120 is water. 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.480 We are water beings on a water planet, gentlemen. And uh. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.280 And when we're talking about, you know, the actual volume 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.520 of the oceans, we're talking about ninety five percent of 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:51.000 the ocean floor quote unquote unexplored, right, because we're talking 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.000 about actually going and exploring there the way you would 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:59.719 the moon or another place. It's crazy to imagine that 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.960 that's the floor part. And then there's all that volume 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:07.720 of water with all that depth, and think about attempting 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:14.840 to explore somehow the surface area at every depth that 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.920 you possibly can, and it just feels like it would 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.200 be impossible for humans to do. Because the average depth 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.800 of the ocean is three thousand, seven hundred and ninety 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.280 five meters or a little over twelve four hundred and 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.920 fifty feet. And just like the Earth's surface, life is 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:38.320 not distributed evenly across the ocean, right. You don't just 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:44.360 have whales every x meters or something, or fish every 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:49.120 x centimeters whatever it would be. They could be anywhere 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:50.280 within that depth. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.920 Just for comparison there, when we're talking about the average 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:57.560 depth of the world's oceans, consider let's see, Matt, the 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.199 number you gave us is average depth of three thousand, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.440 seven hundred and ninety five meters or a little north 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.599 of twelve thousand, four and fifty feet. The current tallest 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.720 tallest building tall skyscraper in the world, the Burj Khalifa, 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.720 is two thousand, seven hundred and sixteen and a half feet, 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.640 so tiny, tiny, tiny in comparison to not the deepest 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:23.760 part of the ocean. 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.280 But just the global average. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:30.760 This is a big place. We have quote unquote mapped 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.160 the ocean floor. Good job for our species, but we 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.160 did it at a really really low resolution. I'm not 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.360 going to say we cut some corners, because again it's 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.360 a very big place. But if you look at the 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:49.959 overall mapping of the ocean floor and you take all 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:54.360 of the scientific progress that every single civilization is made 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:59.280 up to, now, the most of that ocean floor mapping 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.760 has a solution of five kilometers or three miles. That 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:08.600 means that if something is so ridiculous, But that means 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:13.280 that if something is smaller than three miles big, then 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.160 we could totally miss it. So that's like that's the 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.120 threshold for size. So just to set up our question 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.080 or address our question a little more here, if a 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:32.720 sea monster existed and there was a breeding population and 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:38.680 they were less than three miles big, like not even long, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.520 they were just big. If they were less than three 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.880 miles big, then it's possible that we could have missed them. 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:48.000 Think about all the crashed extraterrestrial craft that could be 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.920 down there. We'd have no idea they're not three miles long. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.960 Well, maybe, Matt, are you proposing aquatic extraterrestrials. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.120 Yes, USO is my friend. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.760 Oh my gosh, I don't even know how to start 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.720 wrapping my head around that idea, but probably a discussion 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:04.480 for another day. 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.160 Check out our episode. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.439 Yeah, we have a previous episode on these usos, and 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.720 I don't know, maybe we should revisit that one because 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.520 there's some new information I found on that. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.840 But yeah, clearly I should revisit that one because I 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.440 do not recall its existence at all. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.400 But there's a you're right, Noel, that's an episode maybe 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.880 for another day, which you can find now wherever you 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:37.040 get your favorite podcasts. So this mapping, it's something that 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.080 can be misleading. I think when you first hear it. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.880 It's kind of like saying radio telescope or radio telescope 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.319 gives you information about space, but it doesn't necessarily give 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.959 you a visual picture. And this ocean floor mapping doesn't 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.680 necessarily give us what you would think of as a 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:59.080 visual picture. The job is accomplished using radar. It measures 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.480 the c surface, so it gives us this kind of 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.520 rough topography, the idea of where the bumps and the 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:10.880 dips occur. And that's pretty cool, right, But that means 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.200 that the maps of the ocean floor still are not 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.679 detailed as detailed as some of the maps of planets 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.720 in our Solar system, which is insane. We know a 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.680 little bit about Mars, if this holds true, we know 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.360 a little bit about more about the surface of Mars 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.040 than we do about the surface of the ocean. Nuts. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:35.280 Okay, So just for like a you know, audio visual aid, 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.880 let's just talk a little bit about the layout. So, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:43.480 just like the surface of the globe, the subterranean globe, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.280 I guess we could call it, is divided into different 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:52.440 zones or regions. Each one has their own unique ecosystem, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.600 specific creatures that are native to each of these areas, 0:13:56.640 --> 0:14:00.520 adapted to live in these particular conditions. Of these zones 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.040 in the ocean, there are five, and we'll start from 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.440 closest to the surface and dive down. I'll start with 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.120 this one, because it's really fun to say, the epipilogic 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.840 or sunlight zone, and that ranges from the surface of 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.079 the water to six hundred and fifty six feet below. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.400 It gets plenty of light, plenty of heat, and of 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.200 course all of those things decrease as you head further down. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.720 And this is where all the cute little babies live 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.200 the fun you know, cute kind of finding nemo esque 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.280 figures of the sea, a lot of oceanic life that 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.800 humans actually interact with. Sure, and sure they're cute in 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.640 their own way, let's be nice. But also like coral 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.640 reefs and all these amazing built up layers of coral 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.720 and it's very much like think of it as like 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.280 the metro area of the sea. You know, this is 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.800 where like like the Tokyo or the New York City 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.000 or you know, the Atlanta nice. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.200 And then you go down a little bit further, you 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.720 get to the twilight zone or the mesopelagic zone. It's 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.840 between six hundred and fifty six feet and three thousand, 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.640 two hundred and eighty one feet. There's still a lot 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.760 of stuff living in this area, but stuff's getting a 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:19.000 little different, little little weirder. Like wolf eels. Sure, sure 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.160 you're familiar with those wolf eels. You can hear them 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:27.320 howling in the seas no matter where you are. Swordfish scary, 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:32.640 terrifying creatures that you can hunt for fish for them, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.600 but it's a difficult process. The light at this point 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.160 as you're going down is dying. Sunlight is getting fainter 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:40.800 and fainter as you submerge. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.760 If you mapped all this on a chart, you could 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.960 definitely correlate depth with weirdness. Just putting that out there 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:46.720 real quick. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.160 I want to point out for anyone who is hearing 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.040 of wolf eels for the first time, please do yourself 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:58.160 with favor use your browser of choice to check out 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.520 some images of wolf eels. They do not look like 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.160 what you might assume a wolf or an eel. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:06.840 Looks like I. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.400 Had to put them in there, and yeah, their life 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:11.520 is getting weird with. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.520 It, and you can't actually hear them howling. I apologize 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:15.680 those Jill, Well, we. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:20.600 Don't know, we don't know, we don't know. So let's 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:26.200 continue this journey into the murk. Now we're stepping into 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:31.040 the midnight zone. To bastardize the phrase from that song, 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.360 we're at the bath of Pelagic zone between three thy 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.280 two hundred and eighty one feet to twelve one hundred 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.560 and twenty four feet. This part of the ocean is 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.720 like that old line from Method Man, it's cold world. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.600 You have to bring your own heat. This zone is 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.640 largely dark. This is where you start to see some 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:55.600 sea creatures emitting their own light through phosphorescence. It's also 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:01.680 like that Queen Song. Doat are under pressure? The pressure 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.880 in the zone reaches almost six thousand pounds per square inch, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.240 and that's just because of what you alluded to earlier, Matt. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.160 There is so much water on top of you here. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.760 If you live in this area and then next to 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.840 this we would our next step should we continue? James 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.920 Cameron eskiing down into the depths is what I think 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.000 personally is the coolest zone. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.199 Is it cool as ice? Ben? Sort of like that 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.240 Queen Song was repurposed to be. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.920 It's very cold. It's not quite freezing because the water 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:38.919 is still liquid, but it's very very cold. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.399 You're gonna have to convince me that it's cooler than 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.440 high pressure bioluminescence. But let's do this right. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.920 So this is the abysso paleogic zone. Did I get 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:50.359 there right? I think I got it pretty close. And 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.840 that's between thirteen one hundred and twenty four feet and 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.320 nineteen thousand, six hundred and eighty six feet. And as 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:00.640 the aforementioned Vanilla ice reference implies, this is a very 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.160 very very cold part of the deep sea with no 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.960 natural light over seventy five percent of the ocean floor 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.639 is in this zone. So this is essentially like, for 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.359 all intents and purposes, the bottom. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:19.080 Basically, yeah, loosely speaking, this is this is one of 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.919 the things I thought about a lot in younger days. 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.480 I always thought, where's the bottom of the continents? You 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.520 know what I mean? Where can you walk? Like if 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.600 you could walk on the ocean floor and you could see, oh, 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.639 there's where the floor has kind of a corner and 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.120 the wall there that's well, that's you know North America 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:44.240 or that's Australia. You would find it in the abyssopologic zone. 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:49.919 That's that's the place from which sprang the continents. But 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:53.520 it's still not the bottom. It's just most of the bottom, 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:59.320 right because just like the non water covered surface of 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.400 the planet, there are peaks, there are valleys in the ocean. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:04.760 We call these trenches. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:09.480 Yes, the hatel Pelagic zone that lies down way way 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.840 down nineteen thousand, six hundred and eighty six feet to 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:18.119 thirty six thousand, one hundred feet. Now imagine that, what 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.640 do we say the average was around twelve thousand, thirteen 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:22.760 thousand feet. 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.040 That's correct, twelve four hundred and fifty feet. 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:30.600 So now we're way way down there, and the pressure 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:35.800 in these areas is insane. It's more than eleven thousand, 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:40.800 three hundred and eighteen tons per square meter. Or essentially, 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.600 think about this the equivalent of one person trying to 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:49.720 support the weight of fifty giant jumbo jets. You know, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.800 there's we all know somebody who can bench press one 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:59.240 jumbo jet, but imagine doing fifty. 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:04.119 Yeah, it's impossible. It's you know, it calls to mind 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:08.760 the old mythological figure of Atlas holding the world atop 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:13.160 his shoulders, and mythology plays a huge role in today's 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:18.280 episode as well. The actual depth here gets tricky because 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.879 it depends on, you know, the trenches or the valleys 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.000 in the area. Of course, the Marianas Trench, which is 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.040 the deepest area of the ocean to ever be explored 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:33.640 by humans, sits at we would it's almost it's definitely 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:38.239 thirty five seven and ninety seven feet deep, but that 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.520 might not be the entire story, because again we don't 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.000 there's a ton of stuff we don't know about the ocean. 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:48.560 Just for comparison, like we did with Burj Khalifa, the 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.680 tallest mountain in the world, on the on Earth's dry 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:56.040 surface is Mount Everest that stands at twenty nine and 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:00.439 twenty six feet. So this means that the deepest ocean trench, 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.760 as far as we know, is deeper than the tallest 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:10.720 mountain on this planet is high. There's even with scale comparisons, 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.359 this quickly becomes mind boggling. We're just telling you this 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:16.520 to give you the map, the lay of the land. 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.760 Now we have to talk about the things that live 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:26.560 within this strange, strange world. Estimates show that somewhere between 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.800 fifty to eighty percent of all life on Earth is 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:31.320 found under the ocean. 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:33.920 And we'll tell you about that life right after a 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:35.640 quick word from our sponsor. 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:46.400 And we're back now over the commercial break. I'm sure 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:48.600 many of us had adventures, perhaps some of us are 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.440 on the ocean right now, and you're probably wondering, hey, 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:55.520 fifty to eighty percent, that's a hell of a range. 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:59.840 Hasn't somebody done any kind of more robust research on this? 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:02.600 They were probably also thinking, wow, should I really be 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:06.919 out right now? Especially? I mean I am on the 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:12.920 ocean kind of isolated, but still, but yes, Ben, I mean, really, 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:15.200 we keep talking about this is just given the sheer 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.760 size of the oceans of the seas what we're talking 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:23.679 about here, it's impossible to know exactly how many different 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.840 species live out there and all the different types of species, 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:32.600 right and humans. The scientists people who've been studying this 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.240 for you know, hundreds and thousands of years, estimate that 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.880 between a third, maybe two thirds of the things that 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.920 live in the oceans have yet to be classified. Maybe 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.560 they've been spotted a few of them once or twice, 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:49.600 but they haven't actually been you know, written down and 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:53.600 cataloged as hey, this is another new species, but even 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:55.320 more just have never been seen. 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:58.800 Yeah, that's interesting. I love that you point that out there, Matt, 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:02.720 because we know that there are tales of plenty big 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:08.120 fish stories abound, but having something scientifically classified means that 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:11.879 someone has been able to fit it into a taxonomy 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:14.840 of some sort. This is related to these other things 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:16.879 that we know, and this is kind of where it 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:22.120 lives and what it does before it dies. So we 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:25.760 we might not know sixty six percent of that easily. 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:30.600 We do know for sure two things. First, we know 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:37.520 that populations of undiscovered maritime animals are probably in decline 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:42.000 the way that populations of discovered and classified maritime animals 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:47.560 are Secondly, and pretty disturbingly, we know that we don't 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:51.480 know everything that's out there, but we have a wealth 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:58.760 of scientific research and a wealth of historical allegations, if 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:01.720 you want to call folklore something a little more spicy. 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:05.560 And what's interesting about all of humanity's research into the 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:12.360 world beneath the boats is this, It quickly descends into legend, 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:17.200 into mythology. Sailors have been reporting tales of gigantic sea 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:22.560 monsters since pretty much the first time human beings got 0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:26.560 onto boats, got into the ocean, and then made it 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:28.520 back to land alive. 0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:34.439 Just think about the first time someone saw a whale, 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:38.760 The first time someone saw a whale while on a ship. WHOA, 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:42.840 That must have been mind blowing. And because you have 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:45.119 no way of imagining even what it is when you 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:48.760