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The Mariana Trench is the deepest and probably the most enigmatic place on Earth. Whatever that means. Bizarre creatures, such as deep-sea anglerfish, frilled and goblin sharks, barreleye fish, hatchetfish live in a crescent-shaped trench in the Western Pacific. Just three people have ever descended down the Challenger Deep in the southern end of the Mariana Trench. There, at a depth of almost 11,000 ft, vents are bubbling up carbon dioxide and liquid sulfur.
But did you know that there are places no less mysterious and creepy than the Mariana Trench? If bizarre places with a notorious reputation don't frighten you, how about visiting the Bermuda Triangle? This is really one of the weirdest places on Earth and some people even believe the mythical city of Atlantis lies at the bottom of the triangle. They claim its inhabitants use extraterrestrial technologies to sink ships and crash airplanes.
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TIMESTAMPS:
The Mariana Trench 0:01
The Yucatán Peninsula 0:51
The Von Damm Vent Field 1:23
The Great Blue Hole 2:01
Champagne seeps 2:54
Silfra 3:32
The Gulf of Corryvreckan 4:10
The Ross Sea Ice Shelf 5:00
The Bermuda Triangle 5:50
Cape Desolation in Greenland 7:14
The Gakkel Ridge 7:46
The Cuban underwater city 8:27
The Sargasso Sea 9:07
But did you know that there are places no less mysterious and creepy than the Mariana Trench? If bizarre places with a notorious reputation don't frighten you, how about visiting the Bermuda Triangle? This is really one of the weirdest places on Earth and some people even believe the mythical city of Atlantis lies at the bottom of the triangle. They claim its inhabitants use extraterrestrial technologies to sink ships and crash airplanes.
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TIMESTAMPS:
The Mariana Trench 0:01
The Yucatán Peninsula 0:51
The Von Damm Vent Field 1:23
The Great Blue Hole 2:01
Champagne seeps 2:54
Silfra 3:32
The Gulf of Corryvreckan 4:10
The Ross Sea Ice Shelf 5:00
The Bermuda Triangle 5:50
Cape Desolation in Greenland 7:14
The Gakkel Ridge 7:46
The Cuban underwater city 8:27
The Sargasso Sea 9:07
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00:00Now, the Mariana Trench is the deepest and probably the most enigmatic place on Earth,
00:05whatever that means.
00:06Bizarre creatures such as deep-sea anglerfish, frilled and goblin sharks,
00:12barrel-eyed fish, hatchet fish, who live in a crescent-shaped trench in the western Pacific.
00:18Just three people have ever descended down the Challenger Deep in the southern end of the Mariana Trench.
00:23There, at a depth of almost 11,000 feet, vents are bubbling up carbon dioxide and liquid sulfur.
00:31Mud volcanoes erupt under the pressure a thousand times greater than at the surface.
00:37And so, it's no place I want to go.
00:39So bye!
00:40Get back in there.
00:42Alright, alright, since you clicked, yeah, you're about to visit places no less mysterious and creepy than the Mariana Trench.
00:49Your first stop is Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula to be precise.
00:55See those bottomless sinkholes filled with crystal-clear water?
00:59It's fresh water that overlies salt water seeping from the sea.
01:04The sinkholes are called cenotes.
01:06The Mayans believe these natural wells were the gateways to the underworld.
01:11Thousands of cenotes, created by collapsed limestone bedrock,
01:15form one of the world's longest underwater cave systems.
01:18You can easily get lost in this tangled, mysterious network.
01:23Now it's time to visit the Caribbean.
01:25There, you'll get to a depth of almost 8,000 feet to see the Van Damme Vent Field.
01:31The hydrothermal vents fire out streams of muddy, scalding water,
01:36with a temperature reaching 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
01:39That's almost enough to bake a pizza.
01:41These mounds are made of talc, a substance you can find in baby powder.
01:45The Van Damme Vent Field is an oasis for odd species.
01:50One of those is kind of a creepy shrimp without eyes.
01:53Instead, they're equipped with patches of light-sensitive cells on their backs.
01:59Now, you don't have to travel far away.
02:01The next enigma on your list is also in the Caribbean.
02:05Just off the coast of Belize, there is a giant sinkhole.
02:09It's also blue.
02:10Yep, that's the Great Blue Hole.
02:13The thing is about 1,000 feet across and more than 400 feet deep.
02:17Once, a long, long time ago, this hole was a cave,
02:21until rising waters filled it, making it collapse in on itself.
02:25The deeper you descend into the Great Hole's crystalline waters,
02:29the darker it becomes.
02:31You see tons of stalactite-filled caves,
02:33but don't even try to enter them unless you want to get hopelessly lost.
02:38Once you reach a depth of 50 feet, you notice the water shimmer
02:42as the invisible line dividing the sinkhole's salty top from the freshwater abyss.
02:48Time to get out of there.
02:49Who knows what you might come across in the murky depths?
02:54Your next destination is off the Pacific Northwest coast.
02:58Almost 500 streams of methane bubbles were discovered there several years ago.
03:02Because of the bubbles, the vents got the name champagne seeps,
03:07which sounds better than the fart spas.
03:10Scientists are still puzzling over this phenomenon.
03:13Where does the methane come from?
03:15Underwater cows?
03:16Why is its temperature warmer than that of the surrounding ocean?
03:19And most importantly,
03:21what would happen if you managed to light a mat somewhere near a large bubble?
03:25Methane needs a highly flammable gas,
03:27and setting a methane bubble on fire?
03:30Well, you get the picture.
03:32And now you're off to Iceland.
03:35The plan is to dive into Silfra,
03:37a fissure filled with pure glacier water.
03:39This 206-foot-deep crack is the only underwater place on the planet
03:44where you can touch two continents at once.
03:47The deeper you go, the darker it becomes.
03:50The rocky landscape looks otherworldly.
03:52Divers who dare to visit this incredible place
03:56risk having their gear frozen,
03:58getting hypothermia,
03:59or not surviving whatsoever.
04:01After all, the water temperature in Silfra Fissure
04:04is about 35 degrees Fahrenheit year-round.
04:09Your next destination is Scotland.
04:12Okay, cue the bagpipes.
04:14If you dive in the Gulf of Corrievreckan,
04:16a narrow strait between two islands,
04:19you'll see massive underwater rocks and deep holes.
04:22They create the third-largest permanent whirlpool on the planet,
04:26the Corrievreckan maelstrom.
04:28The water moves through the strait at breakneck speed.
04:32It hits the underwater rocks,
04:33and the place looks like a pot with boiling water.
04:36The waves created in the process
04:38sometimes reach a height of 15 feet,
04:41and you can still hear the roaring whirlpool from 10 miles away.
04:46It's believed the Corrievreckan maelstrom
04:47has swallowed dozens of sailors over the centuries.
04:50They were caught unaware by the ferocity of this natural phenomenon
04:54and pulled underwater in the blink of an eye.
04:58Okay, enough bagpipes.
05:00Your adventures are getting more and more extreme.
05:04You're heading for Antarctica.
05:06There, in the Southern Ocean,
05:08you'll find the Ross Sea Ice Shelf.
05:10Say that five times real fast.
05:12Later, not now.
05:13It's roughly the size of Spain,
05:15with the ocean underneath containing as much water as the North Sea.
05:20Once, scientists drilled all the way down
05:22through this enormous chunk of ice.
05:24Imagine their astonishment
05:26when they found life in those extreme conditions.
05:29The researchers came across dozens of mysterious species
05:32not known before.
05:34The most unnerving were upside-down swimming fish
05:37and overturned sea anemones hanging in the frigid waters.
05:41Hopefully, bizarre places with a notorious reputation
05:46don't frighten you.
05:47Well, too bad,
05:49because you're about to visit the Bermuda Triangle.
05:52It's an area between Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico,
05:55where planes and ships seem to vanish in thin air.
05:59For the first time,
06:00this place attracted a lot of attention in 1945.
06:04That's when five U.S. Navy planes disappeared during training.
06:07Before radio contact was lost,
06:10the flight leader said,
06:11We're entering white water.
06:13Nothing seems right.
06:15After that,
06:16the planes with 14 men flying them disappeared.
06:20Even scarier,
06:21a rescue plane with 13 people on board
06:23never came back as well.
06:26Some people believe the mythical city of Atlantis
06:29lies at the bottom of the triangle.
06:31They claim its inhabitants use extraterrestrial technologies
06:35to sink ships and crash airplanes.
06:37Others blame rare and unexplored natural phenomenon,
06:40for example, magnetic anomalies,
06:43or massive pockets of flammable methane gas.
06:46There we go again.
06:47Then,
06:48if a bolt of lightning ignited a giant methane bubble
06:51near a ship or a plane,
06:52this could probably make it sink without a trace.
06:55Except the smell.
06:57But methane is found everywhere all over the world,
07:00and it never behaves this way.
07:01Some experts aren't sure there's a mystery to explain whatsoever.
07:06Lots of busy routes pass through this area.
07:09No wonder more ships and planes sink there than anywhere else.
07:14Now,
07:15prepare some warm clothes.
07:16You're heading for the north again.
07:18Your destination is Cape Desolation in Greenland.
07:22Nice place.
07:23In 2012,
07:24Canadian researchers were sampling the water in that area,
07:27and their equipment came back to the surface
07:30with pieces of coral attached to it.
07:33That's how a cold-water coral reef was stumbled across.
07:37These unique pinkish corals can easily go without sunlight
07:40and live in strong currents 3,000 feet below the surface.
07:46Another unique spot you can't miss
07:48lies between Greenland and Siberia.
07:51The Gackal Ridge is the deepest and most remote portion
07:55of the global mid-ocean ridge system.
07:58In some places,
07:59it reaches the depth of more than 3 miles.
08:01It's only natural
08:02the darkest corners of this underwater world
08:05remain unexplored.
08:07Fascinating chemical reactions
08:09happening at the bottom of the ridge
08:10produce hot fluids rich in minerals.
08:13They spew,
08:14like freshmen at a rush party,
08:16from seafloor vents.
08:18And since these vents are isolated
08:19from the rest of the ocean,
08:21they're hot spots for bizarre creatures
08:23found nowhere else in the world.
08:27Your next stop is just off the coast of Cuba.
08:30Circular columns,
08:32paved floors,
08:33symmetrical stone structures.
08:35That's what the Cuban underwater city looks like.
08:38What happened there?
08:39Why was a large city abandoned
08:41at a depth of more than 2,000 feet?
08:43Lots of people believe
08:44those are the ruins
08:46of a long-forgotten civilization.
08:47But scientists have their doubts.
08:51They claim the lost city
08:52is nothing but a natural phenomenon
08:53that appeared about 5 million years ago.
08:56The disk and donut structures
08:58often appear around the areas of the seafloor
09:01where natural gases break free.
09:03Again with the gases.
09:06When you come to visit the Sargasso Sea
09:09in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean,
09:11you won't find its shores.
09:13Instead,
09:13it's surrounded by powerful ocean currents.
09:16These are the same currents
09:17that turn the sea
09:18into a gigantic convention
09:20for dense brown seaweed.
09:23In the 19th century,
09:24a French ship was discovered
09:26in the Sargasso Sea.
09:27Its sails were set,
09:29but not a single crew member
09:30was on board.
09:32This mysterious disappearance
09:33made people believe
09:34the seaweed was carnivorous.
09:37The Sargasso Sea
09:38is indeed a weird place.
09:40It's always eerily calm
09:42and unnaturally warm,
09:43even though it's surrounded
09:45by the churning,
09:46freezing waters
09:47of the Atlantic Ocean.
09:49Could one of these bizarre places
09:52become a home
09:52to the largest marine predator ever,
09:55the megalodon?
09:56The giant shark's teeth,
09:58some larger than an adult man's hand,
10:00have been found
10:01pretty much all over the world.
10:03But since these creatures
10:04preferred warm, shallow waters,
10:06they lived along the coastlines
10:08of all continents
10:09except Antarctica.
10:10In other words,
10:12it'd be a waste of time
10:13to search for the giant predator
10:15in the depths of the Mariana Trench,
10:17in Greenland,
10:17or in Mexican cenotes.
10:19But then,
10:20could it choose
10:21the waters of the Caribbean
10:22to hide from the hustle and bustle
10:24of the modern world?
10:26Eh, don't get your hopes up.
10:28There's been no proof
10:29the megalodon does exist these days.
10:32It wasn't a shy, elusive animal,
10:34and still,
10:35no one has seen this shark
10:36lurking around recently.
10:38Not even near the fart spas.
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