These weird things can be found in the ocean

The seas and oceans hold hidden secrets that are sometimes quite frightening. The underwater realm is still a little-known world, with 75% of the surface of the Earth's seabed still to be discovered. However, in the parts where humans have ventured, there are already a number of scary things to be found. Here are 10 of them, plus a bonus that may surprise you.

An aquatic Stonehenge

In the middle of Lake Michigan is a watery Stonehenge. No one is sure what it is or how it got there, which only makes it more intriguing.

Birds

Gannets are birds that dive into the water to find their prey. Other birds behave in a similar way, but what makes these flying fishers unique is that they dive up to 30 metres below the surface.

An Apollo 11 relic

An Apollo 11 rocket engine wasdiscovered in the Atlantic Ocean after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos funded a team to search for it.

Rivers

Yes, rivers can form underwater when salt water meets fresh water, forming corridors of mixed water that move underwater.

Monuments

The Yonaguni monuments stand on the ocean floor off the coast of Japan. Scientists believe that they are about 5,000 years old.

Locomotives

In 1985, steam locomotives from the 1850s were found on the ocean floor. Nobody knows how they got there.

Government meetings

The President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, held an underwater cabinet meeting in 2009 to discuss climate change and its effects on the oceans.

An ancient city

No, this is not yet proof of the existence of Atlantis. It is an underwater city in Qiandao Lake in China. The particularity of this submerged city is that it only recently took the plunge. Indeed, the lake in which it lives was created by a construction company.

A sculpture park

Off the coast of Cancún, Mexico, there is a sculpture park that can only be seen by those willing to dive into the Caribbean Sea. Brave divers can admire more than 500 statues.

A sex toy

Reddit, a platform well known to Internet users for its totally WTF videos, offers us this time a first-person dive. A person, who we don't know much about, except that he's looking for objects, has come face to face with a sex toy in the middle of the ocean. We leave you with the reaction of the diver, which is incredible.

This article was translated from Gentside FR.

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