00:00A remote survey vehicle, Okeanos Explorer, found this mysterious golden orb in the Gulf
00:07of Alaska, about 2 miles deep underwater.
00:11No one can say what this thing is.
00:13It's a strange object just 4 inches wide, and it was firmly stuck to some rock.
00:18When you touch it, it's smooth, soft, feels like flesh.
00:22You can even see a hole in it, as if something escaped from there.
00:26But what?
00:30Divers brought the mysterious orb to the lab from the Pacific Ocean.
00:34They felt like in the beginning of a horror movie, almost as if if you poked this thing,
00:39something would jump at you.
00:40This could happen if they had found it sooner.
00:43The hole in that orb means something alive tried to get inside or break out from inside,
00:48which is why scientists assume that this is an egg.
00:51We might have discovered a new species, or a new life stage of some species we already
00:56know.
00:57Some species do lay their eggs on the ocean floor, like squids.
01:01Although, if that's the case, then these animals might be gigantic, because that egg is huge.
01:10But maybe it's not an egg.
01:12Maybe it's a sponge.
01:13They found this thing surrounded by white coral, where sponges usually vibe.
01:18Just months before this discovery, scientists found more than 5,000 new marine species in
01:23a tiny space between Hawaii and Mexico.
01:26The Gulf of Alaska is home to 52 more species, with tons yet to be identified.
01:33So maybe it's just one of those sponges we haven't discovered yet.
01:37Or it might be a coral, or something entirely different.
01:40The only thing scientists know for sure is that the thing is a living organism.
01:45We're planning to move the orb to a more advanced lab to conduct DNA testing and reveal
01:50more about it.
01:52And it's not our first horrifying discovery from the oceans.
01:58In 2013, two rare locomotives were discovered under 90 feet of water off the coast of New
02:04Jersey.
02:06Scientists think that both of them were lost in the 1850s.
02:09For something that's been underwater for 160 years, they're in very good shape.
02:14Even with layers of rust and barnacles.
02:17You can even see their smokestacks.
02:19And they sit upright, as if ready to pull into a station any minute now.
02:23They're not sure where these locomotives came from.
02:26There's no historical record of them being built or lost, which makes their discovery
02:30even more mysterious.
02:32They have strangely rare steam engines, both about 15 tons, lying 5 miles off Long Branch.
02:39The engine models were already outdated even back when these trains were made.
02:44They were small and powerful, but were only produced for a short time.
02:49Perhaps they were on a journey from Boston to the mid-Atlantic.
02:52Then a storm struck.
02:53It caused them to either fall off a barge or to be deliberately pushed off to save the
02:58ship.
02:59Scientists want to restore the locomotive to learn more about them.
03:02And this isn't the only gift to the seas humans left behind.
03:09Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, has found the Apollo 11 F-1 rocket engines in the ocean.
03:16During the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, the Saturn V rocket used five powerful F-1 engines in
03:22its first stage.
03:24Each of them produced 1.5 million pounds of thrust.
03:28They burned 6,000 pounds of fuel per second, a million and a half times that of a regular
03:33car.
03:34These engines burned for a few minutes before falling back into the Atlantic Ocean.
03:39Jeff Bezos got inspired by this story and began the search for those engines about a
03:43year ago.
03:44The team used an advanced deep-sea sonar.
03:46They finally found the engines 14,000 feet below the ocean surface.
03:52Scientists aren't sure what the conditions of the engines will be.
03:55They did have a super-fast impact with the ocean after all, and then laying over 40 years
04:00in salt water.
04:02But they were built from very tough materials, so hopefully we'll be able to study them.
04:06Ideally, Bezos wants to recover them.
04:09They're still a NASA property, but he hopes to display them in museums like the Smithsonian
04:14or the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
04:18Can you imagine finding the famous Yellow Brick Road from The Wizard of Oz at the bottom
04:23of the ocean?
04:24This thing looks like a man-made road, but believe it or not, it's a natural volcanic
04:30structure.
04:31Divers were exploring underwater volcanic mountains called seamounts in Hawaii.
04:36They wanted to investigate a split in the seamount trail.
04:39They live-streamed their journey and suddenly stumbled upon something fascinating.
04:44A pattern of cracks in the seabed that looks like a brick road.
04:48They used a robotic arm to pick up the rocks.
04:51The rocks had distinct rectangular blocks separated by straight lines and right angles.
04:56Someone joked that it might be a road to Atlantis, and another called it a Yellow Brick Road,
05:01hence the name.
05:03After some study, scientists discovered that this dry lake bed was made by super energetic
05:08ancient volcanic eruptions.
05:10This is actually fractured hyaloclastite rock.
05:14Since the volcanoes were going crazy, they heated up and cooled down repeatedly until
05:18they created this unique cobbled pattern.
05:23On June 20, 2011, the OceanX diving team discovered something extremely weird.
05:29They were searching for treasure in the northern Baltic Sea in the Gulf of Bothnia.
05:34Instead, they found an anomaly.
05:37The thing, dubbed the Baltic Sea Anomaly, logically, looked very weird and unnatural.
05:44The anomaly is almost 200 feet wide.
05:46It looks like a mushroom, rising about 10 to 13 feet from the seabed.
05:51It also has a huge disc shape, twice the size of a football field.
05:56The main part of the anomaly has straight edges and box-like structures.
06:00The top has cracks filled with some unknown black material.
06:04And it's not made of metal.
06:06The object lies about 300 feet deep in the Gulf's waters.
06:09The main mystery is why it's there.
06:15This discovery did create buzz in mass media.
06:18Some people started saying that it might be a sunken extraterrestrial ship, the remains
06:23of Atlantis, or a portal to another world.
06:26These claims got even more support when we found weird pavement-like platforms surrounding
06:31the object.
06:32It kinda looks like a staircase.
06:34And on top of that, explorers reported that their electrical equipment, like sonar instruments
06:39and satellite phones, malfunctioned near the thing.
06:43And it's not even some random reports.
06:46Researchers from different institutes said that as well.
06:49But scientists think that this is, most likely, a natural geological formation.
06:54Even if it doesn't look like it.
06:55Although they can't really explain what that formation is supposed to be.
06:59They have many theories.
07:01It could be linked to human evolution, a glacial deposit from the Ice Age, a result of volcanic
07:07activity, and so on.
07:09Maybe it's even the remnants of an asteroid that landed on the seafloor thousands of years
07:13ago.
07:14But none of these theories explain why electronic equipment stops working near it.
07:19Who knows?
07:20Maybe we'll learn the truth someday.
07:22But how about technologies that came to us from the distant past?
07:29This strange thing is often called the first known analog computer.
07:33It's called the Antikythera mechanism.
07:36We discovered the mechanisms in 1901 near the Greek island of Antikythera.
07:41It might be from around 87 BCE.
07:45They found it in a shipwreck, in incredibly good shape for being so old.
07:49The thing was super complex.
07:52Machines of similar complexity didn't appear anywhere in the world until the 14th century.
07:57It was also a mysterious lump.
07:59When they separated it into multiple fragments, they found inscriptions inside.
08:05They were hard to read because of all the corrosion.
08:07But when they deciphered it with X-ray, they discovered that these were the instructions,
08:12telling how exactly to use it.
08:14Wow, what a gift to archaeologists!
08:17So it turns out the mechanism was made to predict astronomical positions and eclipses
08:22decades ahead.
08:24Ancient scientists used this computer to track the 4-year cycle of athletic games, similar
08:29to the ancient Olympics.
08:31The mechanism had a very intricate structure of 37 bronze gears that tracked the movements
08:36of celestial objects.
08:38But at least here, we know that these things were made by humans, right?
08:45That's it for today!
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