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00:00Minha procura para os animais não confirmados deste mundo
00:07me levou a alguns lugares bastante bizarres
00:09Mas não é tão alienado como este
00:13Meu nome é Pat Span
00:18Microbiologista
00:20Cientista de vida
00:22Beast Hunter
00:24Mystery é no meu sangue
00:27Meu grande-uncle foi o pioneiro do paranormal, Charles Fort
00:32E eu continuo o seu legado
00:35Taking meu treinamento científico de pesquisa e into the wild
00:42Eu estou no caminho de o que pode ser um real seamonster
00:46Isso foi definitivamente algo no ar que eu nunca tinha visto antes
00:54Foi algum tipo de seamonster
00:56Eu estou positiva de isso
00:58Muitos aniversários e pesquisa de pesquisa
01:03estão começando a levar nosso conhecimento de pesquisa
01:05A parte de pesquisa de pesquisa
01:07A parte de pesquisa de pesquisa
01:09Expecisa de pesquisa
01:09Expecisa de pesquisa
01:11Há uma parte de pesquisa
01:13Olha lá!
01:14Olha isso!
01:14Wow!
01:15Se conversarmos sobre as coisas como os homens, os gatos e vampiros,
01:42e você tenta explicar cientificamente, você tem que mudar os leis da física,
01:46mudar as coisas que sabemos sobre este mundo.
01:51Mas, quando falamos sobre os monstros, nós não temos que fazer isso.
02:00Ciência nos diz que há misteriosos aqui, nós temos que encontrar eles.
02:05I'm on Vancouver Island, in Canada,
02:14in search of a sea serpent, known as Cadborosaurus, or Caddy.
02:20One of the world's most legendary sea monsters.
02:23To science, it doesn't officially exist.
02:28Just because it hasn't been recognized by science, doesn't mean it's not out there.
02:35British Columbia runs over 1,000 km from north to south.
02:41But with over 25,000 km of intricate shoreline,
02:46it's home to all manner of marine life.
02:51But I'm looking for one reported animal in particular.
02:54Well, here's kind of the general area where a bunch of Caddy sightings have happened.
03:02Down here, in Cadboro Bay, we have a lot of historic sightings.
03:06I mean, that's what Caddy's named after.
03:07But some of the more recent ones have been up around this area.
03:11And I've heard of a sighting right over here and one right over here recently.
03:14And looking at this, I know there's a lot of food in this area.
03:17And as a biologist, I'm checking out these kind of protected inlets and coves,
03:21little harbor areas.
03:22And it just looks like the perfect spot for birthing and for feeding.
03:26So I think right up here is a really good spot to focus our search.
03:29I'm looking for people who claim to have seen Caddy.
03:39And they don't seem like the type to believe in fairy tales.
03:44In August of 1997, I was sitting there just looking out over the water.
03:59The water just was absolutely dead flat, calm, even calmer than it is now.
04:04All of a sudden, these three or four humps came up, and then they went down,
04:09and then they were up, and then they were down.
04:11That caught my attention.
04:20Then I saw two or three hundred yards up toward the green buoy there.
04:25And that's what really made me wonder what it was
04:28because of the speed from going from that point to that point.
04:31And it was gone.
04:36Seven years later, only 13 kilometers away,
04:39another unlikely monster spotter was on her sun deck.
04:44It happened, I would say, anywhere between 20 and 30 feet behind the mooring buoy.
04:48That's when I first saw it.
04:56It went right across my view.
04:58And then all of a sudden, it went down.
05:01But there was nothing else out here, and it left this massive wake.
05:06I knew I wasn't dreaming.
05:13When I saw the wake, it took up the total view that we can see from our deck.
05:23Seven kilometers east and 20 years before, another encounter.
05:27It was March, but it was a nice, clear day, so I came out here with a friend visiting.
05:37As we were going out, there were two humps in the water.
05:55So I headed off towards it, and it submerged.
06:00I judged roughly where it had disappeared, turned the motor off, and let it coast towards it.
06:05And while we were still, while we were moving, it came up again.
06:14Two humps in the water, like tractor tires.
06:19I mean, we could have touched the thing if we were so close.
06:22Three upstanding citizens.
06:28Three remarkable stories.
06:31But are there more plausible explanations before we cry sea monster?
06:35How big do you think the creature was?
06:39Well, I think our mooring boy is about two feet, and the first time I saw it, it was two humps,
06:45and it had to be at least three to four times higher than the mooring boy.
06:49So the humps coming out of the water, you're saying possibly up to around six feet or two meters?
06:53Yeah, it was.
06:55The only thing I can compare it to is a huge half tire.
06:59I would say it was big.
07:02It was something I had never seen before, and it was black, and it was big.
07:04And they were absolutely almost perfect, the same shape as tires, like perfectly round, coming straight up.
07:12And I would guess that it may have been 20, 30 foot long.
07:16And the crest was about as big as your fingers.
07:18The scales were about as big as your fist.
07:20Were you able to see fins or legs?
07:22No, I didn't see anything of the head or the tail.
07:24And I didn't know anything about this creature at all.
07:27I didn't see a head, I didn't see an ant, I just saw the two humps.
07:31Size and distance are hard to judge over the water.
07:37Add hazy light and glare, and things become pretty difficult to identify.
07:43So could it have been anything man-made, like a sub or, you know, some recreational kind of vehicle thing?
07:48No, no, it's too shallow right there.
07:50Our morrowing buoy isn't out very far.
07:51It's far too shallow.
07:52No, it definitely wasn't that.
07:55It was some type of sea creature.
07:57Wow.
07:58I'm positive of that.
07:59I just don't know what.
08:01I was trying to go through my mind, could it be a whale?
08:05Could it be this?
08:06Could it be that?
08:07And every time I thought of something, I thought, no, it can't be.
08:09It's not anything like I've seen.
08:11So when you spotted it, did it look like it was an animal or could it have been some kind of debris?
08:16I mean, you describe it as tire-like.
08:18It was very active, it was there, and it moved fast.
08:23Initially, we thought it was two seals, but seals don't swim close formation like that, and you don't get dolphins around here.
08:31So you're sure this was a living creature?
08:32It wasn't some man-made object or a branch or anything like that?
08:36No, no, this was definitely something in the water that we'd never seen before.
08:41I just don't know what it was, and I'd like to be able to describe it better,
08:45but when you see something at such a short period of time, all that you got is the impression you saw.
08:55Whatever they saw, it seems to me these people were all looking at the same thing.
09:04A quick spin through the archives shows they're not alone.
09:10Similar reports date back over a century.
09:15To find out what all these people are seeing,
09:22I'm going to have to cast my net deep and wide.
09:31Where better to start than with real nets,
09:34off the west coast of Vancouver Island?
09:37I hitch a ride on a fishing boat called the Ocean Pearl.
09:42How are you feeling?
09:43I feel like f***.
09:44We're on the edge of the continental shelf.
09:48Yeah, is this pretty normal?
09:50And at the mercy of the Pacific.
09:56A $5 million boat.
09:58A 12-man crew.
10:0016-hour shifts.
10:02Six weeks at sea.
10:04On board 150 tons of fish worth $2 million.
10:08These guys spend their lives on the water.
10:13They see things that I can't even imagine.
10:16They're out here, no matter what the weather, day or night.
10:21I've come out to see if I can learn from them,
10:23because no one knows the sea better than these guys.
10:25All reports say Caddy's a sea creature.
10:35So if I want to understand it,
10:37I need to understand what it's like out here.
10:39Wow, look at all these fish, man.
10:52I mean, these are great, really fertile waters here.
10:57They clearly support a lot of very diverse life.
11:00and some of it is pretty unusual.
11:06So this just fell out of one of the fish.
11:09It's a hagfish.
11:10They also call them slime eels.
11:12The only animal on earth that ties itself in a knot.
11:15What it does is gets inside the fish here,
11:19uses this weird mouth part to clamp down,
11:23ties itself in a knot,
11:24and then pops its head out of the knot
11:26to rip a hunk out of the fish.
11:31A little hands-on biology,
11:32and I feel a lot more comfortable.
11:37I think I've got my sea legs now,
11:39but I was feeling really, really sick this morning.
11:42I'm a marine biologist.
11:43I've worked up and down the east coast in the U.S.,
11:45and one of my old bosses in Maryland used to tell me,
11:48if you really want to learn about the marine animals of the area,
11:51talk to a fisherman.
11:56Unlike scientists on a field trip,
12:00these guys spend most of their lives at sea.
12:05I grew up knowing about Caddy, you know,
12:08like, I mean, you know, I grew up in Victoria,
12:10and, you know, Cabra Bay is right there.
12:18Everybody was always watching the horizon for Caddy.
12:22So people really believe in this?
12:23Well, I mean, this has happened so many times
12:26that, you know, there has to be something to it,
12:28you know, and a lot of times, yeah,
12:30you know, maybe some people are just seeing waves go by
12:33or something, you know, imagining something.
12:34But even if it's once,
12:36we've got a new animal out there.
12:38But it's still an unexplored,
12:40huge, vast, four-fifths of our Earth is,
12:44you know, there's going to be something down there
12:45that we absolutely have no idea that's there.
12:48So you think there's a possibility
12:49that there are unknown animals out there?
12:51Absolutely. Yeah.
12:54Sure I do.
12:56My search for the truth behind Caddy
12:58might yet turn up something new.
13:02So I'm taking every chance to look for myself.
13:07There, right there, below.
13:09There's a fin, there's a fin.
13:13It's right here.
13:14I can still see the water where it was.
13:24Oh, look at that!
13:28If these giants didn't exist,
13:30science fiction couldn't make them up.
13:33Growing up to 33 meters and 182,000 kilos,
13:38whales are the largest known animals
13:40ever to have lived on Earth.
13:43If you're looking for a sea monster,
13:45look no further.
13:51We've seen a couple different species of whale
13:53just surfacing up here like that.
13:55And I think we were seeing fin whales and humpbacks.
13:58And when the humpbacks just came up
13:59right next to each other,
14:01it was just like what people describe Caddy as,
14:04you know, just these two big humps
14:05coming right out of the water.
14:07Wow, huge one!
14:09Oh my God, look at that!
14:27I can't believe we were just able
14:28to get that close to whales.
14:30I mean, this water is just teeming with life.
14:32There's so much in here.
14:33We saw all the fish that these guys pulled out.
14:36Just remarkable.
14:37I mean, there's enough food for us.
14:39There's definitely enough food for the whales.
14:40And if Caddy exists,
14:42I mean, you've got to think
14:43there's enough food for it, too.
14:49Back on shore,
14:50I've got another eyewitness account to investigate.
14:52One of my witnesses had a second sighting.
15:04And this time,
15:05she was with a friend.
15:14Well, we were up on Marjorie's deck
15:16one evening about this time of year, actually.
15:19A few weeks after Marjorie Neal's Caddy encounter,
15:27she and Rita were enjoying
15:28the last of the evening sun.
15:34Rita had heard Marjorie's story,
15:36but understandably,
15:37she was skeptical.
15:38That was about to change.
15:44And I was facing the ocean,
15:47and all of a sudden,
15:49I noticed something out there.
15:58I couldn't believe what it was.
16:00I've never seen anything like it.
16:03Worried that no one would believe them,
16:04they decided to record independently
16:07what they had just seen.
16:10This time,
16:12that included a head.
16:14So it's just really excellent
16:15that you guys had the foresight
16:16to kind of go into separate rooms
16:17and draw this right after you saw it.
16:19That's so important
16:20for our research into this.
16:22It was a much better sighting
16:24the second time
16:25than what I saw the first time.
16:27And this time,
16:27you said you saw a head.
16:28Yeah.
16:28Oh, yeah.
16:29It's definitely a head
16:30with these two hump-like things
16:33on the top of it.
16:35It was like this.
16:35We actually saw the long neck
16:37and the head,
16:39which looked like a giraffe,
16:41a horse,
16:42something like that.
16:43But you could tell
16:44that it was organic.
16:45It was an animal.
16:46Oh, yeah.
16:46You're sure.
16:46Definitely.
16:47Definitely.
16:48It was very strange.
16:51It was great.
16:51I believe her story now.
16:52Yeah.
16:53This seems to be
16:59a clear sighting
17:00of a totally unknown animal.
17:07I don't think
17:08they're making it up,
17:09but I do have to eliminate
17:10the other possibilities.
17:18Controlled experiments
17:19have shown us
17:19that eyewitness accounts
17:20aren't entirely reliable
17:22in a lot of situations.
17:24With that said,
17:25these people did see something.
17:27I'm just not really sure what.
17:33So I've got a whale
17:34just coming up to the surface,
17:36just like I saw
17:37in the fishing boat.
17:39If I caught this
17:40out of the corner of my eye,
17:41saw it in the right light,
17:43there's a couple humps
17:44right there.
17:45You know,
17:45it looks like that kind of
17:46classic catty description.
17:49Yeah, there's a marine iguana.
17:51They're not very big,
17:53and granted,
17:53they aren't found around here.
17:56But I mean,
17:57the reality of it is
17:58there's this big,
17:59humped back thing
18:00with spines on it.
18:05Seal.
18:05Sea lions.
18:07Camel-shaped head.
18:08I mean,
18:08definitely the kind of face
18:10like you hear people
18:11describe for catty.
18:12Oh, and this one's
18:15the classic.
18:16And you've got a few dolphins
18:17right in a row,
18:18all coming out of the water
18:20at the same time.
18:21When you zoom in on it,
18:23my first thought
18:24would be sea monster.
18:26Out of the water,
18:27things aren't always
18:28what they seem.
18:29Without concrete evidence,
18:39some might dismiss
18:40these sightings
18:41as nothing but hearsay.
18:43But not me.
18:45Because of my family history,
18:47the more mysterious it is,
18:49the more interested I am.
18:51My great-uncle,
18:52Charles Fort,
18:53was a renowned chronicler
18:54of apparently
18:55supernatural phenomena.
18:56He published accounts
18:59of spectacles
19:00like raining fish
19:01and ball lightning.
19:07These have since been
19:08recognized as genuine occurrences.
19:14Today, the name Fort
19:15is synonymous
19:17with paranormal investigation.
19:21He even went as far
19:23as to make the bold statement,
19:24except that unknown
19:26sea monsters exist.
19:29Today, 95% of our oceans
19:31remain unexplored.
19:36The more we find out
19:37about them,
19:38the more we realize
19:39how much we don't know.
19:41welcome to the deep freeze
19:54at Woods Hole Oceanographic
19:55Institute, Cape Cod,
19:57one of the world's top centers
19:59for marine research.
20:01Look at this place.
20:05Dolphins hanging up.
20:06Look at that.
20:14Whoa.
20:15Things have been taken out
20:16by a shark.
20:18That's a loggerhead.
20:20This room is maintained
20:21at a constant
20:21negative 20 degrees Celsius.
20:24Wow.
20:25That's like summer
20:26at the South Pole.
20:29And it holds its inhabitants
20:31in a frigid stasis.
20:32And this is crazy.
20:36But it's not just
20:37the final resting place
20:38for a barrage
20:39of icy corpses.
20:41For marine scientists,
20:43this is like a frozen ark.
20:45With everything
20:46from manatees
20:47to narwhals,
20:48it's one of the best places
20:50on Earth
20:51to separate sea monster fact
20:52from fiction.
20:54Throughout history,
21:02from all over the world,
21:03we have these sea monster legends.
21:04Why do you think that is?
21:06Well, I think it's because
21:06people catch glimpses
21:08of animals in the wild
21:09and they don't see
21:09the whole animal.
21:10And so they try and extrapolate
21:12from the little bit
21:12that they see.
21:13And so it might be
21:14a giant squid,
21:15it might be a piece of a whale,
21:16but you only see a tiny bit
21:17and you try and reconstruct
21:19what the rest of it looks like.
21:20Sometimes we're right,
21:21sometimes we're wrong.
21:22And sometimes we come up
21:23with strange serpents.
21:32Dr. Snellgrove contributed
21:33to a decade-long study
21:35of life in the ocean.
21:38If anyone knows
21:39what's out there,
21:40he does.
21:41So there are examples
21:42of things like
21:43megamouth sharks
21:44and giant squids, though,
21:45that did go a really long time
21:46without being positively identified.
21:48Do you think
21:49there's more things out there?
21:50Oh, absolutely.
21:51I think there are definitely
21:51a lot more things out there.
21:53And big things, too.
21:54Things bigger than you and me.
21:56So there's one statistician
21:57I know who's estimated
21:57somewhere between
21:5810 and 50 animals
22:00that would fall
22:01within that size range
22:02that we haven't found yet.
22:03Where do you think
22:03we're the most likely
22:04to find large animals?
22:06Almost certainly
22:06in the deep ocean
22:07because that's the hardest
22:08area to explore.
22:09It's the largest area
22:10on the planet.
22:11And so there's certainly
22:12discoveries to be made
22:13down there.
22:13In the B.C. coast,
22:14one of the things about it
22:15is you get to deep water
22:16very quickly.
22:17And so that increases
22:17the chances there could be
22:18something out there.
22:19How likely is it
22:20that there's a large,
22:21unidentified animal
22:22off the British Columbia coast?
22:23I'd be willing to bet
22:24there is some large,
22:26identified animal
22:26off the British Columbia coast.
22:31I need to recap
22:32on what I've learned
22:33the caddy might look like
22:34and whether this
22:37holds any clues
22:38as to its real identity.
22:42Caddy's alleged to have
22:43this sort of fluke-like tail.
22:45Think dolphins and whales.
22:46than this serpentine body.
22:49You know, oftentimes
22:50described as having
22:51kind of a crest
22:52running the whole length
22:53of it.
22:54The width is about that
22:55of a good-sized tree trunk.
22:57People talk about these
22:58either legs or flippers,
23:00four of them,
23:01positioned right about here.
23:03The body continues on
23:04in kind of a snake-like way
23:06all the way to this
23:07long, thin neck
23:08that's often described
23:09as sticking up
23:10out of the water
23:10with what appears to be
23:12a camel's
23:13or a horse-like head.
23:14Sometimes people talk
23:15about these knobbly
23:16protrusions or maybe ears.
23:18They say they're not
23:19really sure if it's
23:20scaly or maybe furry,
23:21but everyone describes
23:22the head as really,
23:23really similar.
23:24And thinking about it,
23:26I don't know of any
23:26animals in British Columbia
23:28water that meet
23:28this description.
23:37Science hasn't recognized
23:38this creature yet.
23:43But maybe this region's
23:44folklore has.
23:58Hal Simal is an elder
24:00of the Snenemuks people.
24:02They have lived here
24:04for over 5,000 years.
24:05This area that we're in
24:09to our people,
24:11it's called the Khwam,
24:13named after a shaman
24:14that was turned into stone
24:17here at the beginning
24:17of time.
24:20We're at a Snenemuks
24:21sacred site,
24:23a rock outcrop
24:25covered with carvings.
24:27One of them
24:28looks very familiar.
24:32There's the head up there
24:33with, you know,
24:34fierce-looking teeth.
24:35and it looks like
24:37there's fins up on top
24:38here in that long
24:40serpentine kind of body
24:41with a long curling tail.
24:44This beast here
24:45would be Shleilakum
24:46that he would be fierce.
24:48But in actual...
24:49Shleilakum?
24:50Shleilakum.
24:51And if you wanted
24:52to seek a certain
24:53shame and power,
24:55you would go
24:56and search of where
24:57this creature might live.
24:59Down deep,
25:00and there would be
25:01a cave or something,
25:02you know,
25:02in a different area.
25:03Down in the deep ocean.
25:03Yeah.
25:04And you would try
25:05to find the hole
25:06where he lived
25:06just in search
25:08of that power.
25:11Shamans may have
25:12made these carvings
25:13to harness the power
25:14of these creatures.
25:16Some real,
25:17and some,
25:18like the iconic
25:19Thunderbird,
25:21supernatural.
25:22I've collected pictures
25:31of First Nations carvings
25:33of the Shleilakum
25:34and other similar creatures.
25:37I want to get
25:38Halseemal's take
25:39on whether these
25:40are real animals
25:41or if they only exist
25:42in the spirit world.
25:44I almost see that
25:46as a killer whale there.
25:47So the fin
25:48of the killer whale
25:49coming off the back?
25:50I think this would
25:51probably be
25:51another creature
25:52coming off its tail.
25:54I see this as mythical.
25:56So this is more
25:57of that spirit realm
25:59rather than a real creature.
26:00That's how I see it,
26:00yeah.
26:02I see this
26:03as something evil.
26:07Oh,
26:08very,
26:09very taboo
26:09to see something
26:11that evil.
26:11The carving
26:15is obviously
26:15making my guide
26:16uncomfortable.
26:18But the head
26:19looks just like
26:20the animal
26:20I'm searching for.
26:23Why might someone
26:23have done
26:24a carving of it?
26:27There's a warning.
26:29This same
26:30Shleilakum creature
26:31keeps cropping up
26:32in these carvings.
26:33Snake-like body,
26:36fierce teeth,
26:37dorsal crest.
26:40This would be
26:41Shleilakum.
26:42And do you think
26:42that would be
26:43an animal that really
26:44did exist,
26:45does exist,
26:46or is it only
26:47in myths and legends?
26:49If I'm alone
26:49in the ocean,
26:50in the dark,
26:52and I think about that,
26:53I do get afraid.
26:54So I do believe
26:55that there could be
26:57such a creature.
26:58Could this be
27:01the same creature
27:02my eyewitnesses
27:03described?
27:03Halsimal has
27:08one more story
27:09that pulls
27:09the Shleilakum
27:10out of the spirit world
27:11and into
27:12the natural world.
27:14My mother told me
27:16a story about
27:17finding a baby
27:18Shleilakum.
27:20She described it
27:21as a baby
27:22sea serpent.
27:23The cry of that
27:25creature scared them
27:27and they released it
27:29on the other side
27:30of Gabriola Island.
27:32So she believed
27:33that Shleilakum
27:33would be a term
27:34that could be
27:35applied to
27:36the catty.
27:37Anything fierce.
27:42Myths and stories
27:43are intriguing,
27:44but I'm going to need
27:45more concrete evidence
27:46because first and foremost,
27:48I'm a scientist.
27:53When I'm not chasing
27:55unknown beasts,
27:56I work in a cutting-edge
27:58biotech facility.
27:59It's the same
28:02scientific rigor
28:03that I exercise
28:04in my day job
28:05that I need to bring
28:06to bear on stories
28:07of catty.
28:10I'm yet to find
28:12any concrete evidence
28:13that stands up
28:14to this degree
28:15of scrutiny.
28:17But there is
28:18one piece of evidence
28:19that might do
28:20just that.
28:21in 1937,
28:25whalers at
28:26Naden Harbor
28:26recovered what
28:27they claimed
28:28to be a carcass
28:28from the belly
28:29of a sperm whale.
28:30They laid it out
28:31on a bunch of boxes
28:32and took this photo.
28:40Whatever this
28:41Naden carcass was,
28:42it was weird enough
28:43for the whalers
28:44to record it
28:45for posterity.
28:46Researchers have
28:50identified
28:51possible caudal
28:52vertebra
28:53and rear limbs
28:54like a triassic
28:55pleosaur.
28:57Along the body,
28:58more vertebra,
28:59some sort of crest,
29:01and possibly
29:02front limbs.
29:03And the horse-shaped
29:05head of many sightings
29:06with possible
29:07eye and mouth.
29:09Was this carcass
29:11merely a decomposing
29:12shark?
29:13Or the partially
29:14digested tentacle
29:15of a giant squid?
29:17Or if not
29:18an elaborate hoax,
29:20is it indeed
29:21a previously
29:22unknown species?
29:24One writer's gone
29:25so far as to
29:26describe it
29:26as a new species,
29:28Cadborosaurus
29:28wilsei.
29:30He proposed
29:30that it was
29:30a pleosaur
29:31that somehow
29:32survived the
29:33extinction of the
29:33dinosaurs
29:3465 million years
29:35ago.
29:37Caddy may be
29:37a new species,
29:38but we can't rely
29:39on this photo
29:40to prove it.
29:41That's just
29:41bad science.
29:42To describe
29:43a new species,
29:44you need a sample,
29:45or at the very
29:45least,
29:46some really
29:47good video footage.
29:48This photo
29:49might be many
29:50things,
29:51but by itself,
29:52it doesn't
29:53prove anything.
29:57I need to get
29:58back out on the
29:59water,
30:00and back on
30:01Caddy's Tread.
30:07I'm paddling
30:08through Vancouver
30:09Island's channels,
30:10home to countless
30:11reported Caddy
30:12sightings.
30:18The coast here
30:19is teeming with
30:20life.
30:21Oh, there's a seal.
30:22But most of the
30:23large animals I'm
30:24seeing are mammals.
30:30I wonder if Caddy,
30:32too, could be a
30:33mammal.
30:33This water's really
30:38cold, and it stays
30:39cold all year.
30:41For a mammal to
30:41survive in these
30:42kind of conditions,
30:43we'd expect it to
30:44take that typical
30:45marine mammal shape,
30:46you know, that
30:46kind of torpedo look
30:48that you see in
30:48seals, whales,
30:49dolphins, that
30:50kind of thing.
30:51This isn't the
30:52shape that Caddy
30:52is reported to have.
30:54It doesn't have
30:54that big layer of
30:55blubber on the
30:56outside, either.
30:57It just led people
30:57to question whether
30:58or not Caddy could
30:59be a mammal.
31:00There is, however,
31:01one mammal that
31:02does fit the
31:03description that we
31:03hear about Caddy.
31:05Unfortunately, it
31:06went extinct 34
31:06million years ago.
31:17Described as the
31:18closest a whale ever
31:19came to a snake,
31:21the Bacillosaurus is
31:22known from fossils
31:23from around the
31:24world.
31:26We think it died
31:27out at the end of
31:27the Eocene.
31:28So could it still
31:30be swimming in our
31:31modern oceans?
31:32It wouldn't be
31:34totally without
31:34precedent.
31:39There is a fish
31:40that we know very
31:41little about that
31:42might fit the bill.
31:45It's so peculiar
31:46that back at Woods
31:47Hole, I'm not sure
31:49I haven't dreamed it
31:50up.
31:52Orefish grow over
31:5415 meters, although
31:56this juvenile caught
31:57off the coast of
31:58Florida in 2004 is
31:59less than 3 meters
32:01long.
32:01It's still a treat
32:02for any scientist.
32:04So we've just
32:05scanned an orefish.
32:06It's not that we
32:07just scanned an
32:08orefish.
32:08We scanned an
32:09orefish.
32:10As far as I know,
32:11this is the first
32:12time anybody's done
32:13it.
32:19Dr. Darlene Ketten,
32:20top marine
32:21anatomist, has
32:22years of experience
32:23with all kinds of
32:24known marine creatures.
32:28But what about those
32:29on the edge of our
32:30knowledge?
32:32So there are these
32:33legends of sea
32:34serpents from all
32:35around the world.
32:36You know, people talk
32:36about just these
32:37amazing giant creatures.
32:40What do you think
32:40about the comparison
32:41with an orefish?
32:42Is there any chance
32:43someone could see this
32:44and think sea serpent?
32:46I have to now try to
32:47think about taking this
32:49nine foot juvenile and
32:52then suddenly having it
32:53turn into a 30, 45 foot
32:55something that's the
32:57height of a two story
32:58house.
32:59Sure, if I were sitting
33:01in a sailboat, looked out
33:02and saw something coming
33:04at me with this rippling
33:05with large sticks out of it,
33:07yeah, sea serpent would
33:08definitely come to mind.
33:13The orefish could be
33:14responsible for many sea
33:16serpent sightings
33:16throughout the ages.
33:25But this first footage of
33:27it swimming at depth
33:28and our groundbreaking scan
33:30give us far greater
33:31understanding of this
33:33creature.
33:38This is a really
33:43bizarre creature.
33:45What we found was that
33:46the head is like most
33:48dense bony fish and then
33:50you switch back to the
33:51body and it's not like
33:52any other fish we've done.
33:55We shouldn't see much in
33:57the gut of this animal,
33:58but it's got a few
33:59surprises for us.
34:01Orefish are primarily
34:02plankton feeders, but
34:04stripping back the flesh,
34:06we've found some
34:07surprising evidence.
34:08Then, moving farther
34:10back, we're starting to
34:12see some pretty dense
34:13objects and those aren't
34:16part of this fish.
34:17You'll see that there's a
34:18hole right here.
34:19That's actually the
34:20esophagus or the
34:21intestine as we're moving
34:23farther and farther back.
34:24So it's been eating
34:25bony fish.
34:25It's been eating other
34:27fishes.
34:29Whether that was a matter
34:31of desperation, that this
34:33was a hungry juvenile that
34:34needed some kind of food
34:35or not, we don't know.
34:37But at least in the gut of
34:40this animal, there are
34:41other fish.
34:42The presence of bony fish
34:44in the gut of a plankton
34:45feeder is remarkable.
34:47In the orefish, it's a
34:49complete surprise.
34:52It's nuts and bolts science
34:53like this that pulls
34:55mysterious monsters out of
34:56the storybooks and into the
34:58real world.
34:59Everything I've learned on
35:04this trip suggests to me that
35:05Caddy 2 is a real creature.
35:08I want to stick my neck out
35:10and say I believe, but for a
35:12serious scientist with no hard
35:13evidence, it's a dangerous
35:15statement to make.
35:17So before I take this plunge, I
35:19need more reassurance.
35:21The deep ocean is where Caddy is
35:26most likely to exist.
35:29If I can get down there, maybe
35:32it'll persuade me to put my
35:33scientific credibility on the
35:34line and buy into a real
35:38creature behind the Caddy
35:39legend.
35:40Hey, Jeff.
35:41Hey, how are you?
35:42Good, Pat.
35:43How are you?
35:43Good.
35:43Is it okay if I jump on?
35:44Yeah, come on board.
35:45Submersible pilot Jeff Heaton is
35:50going to expand my mind.
35:52Good to meet you.
35:53Good to meet you, too.
35:54300 meters down at the bottom
35:56of the Agamemnon channel.
36:01This is the one that we're going
36:02to get you into today.
36:03This is our multi-passenger
36:04thousand footer.
36:06This is the most high-tech kit
36:07I've ever used.
36:09Oh, my God.
36:12This is unreal.
36:13So we've got this window here.
36:16She's two inches thick.
36:17We've got a seven-function
36:18electro-hydraulic manipulator,
36:20high-definition video, and then
36:22we've got this array of HMI lights.
36:24When we go to bottom, we're
36:25bringing sunlight with us.
36:26I've heard people say that when
36:27you get down below a thousand
36:28feet, it's just a completely
36:30different world.
36:31I've done some fairly deep dives
36:33in different parts of the world,
36:34and as soon as you start getting
36:36down past that thousand-foot range,
36:39all bets are off.
36:40You just don't know what you're
36:41going to see in different parts
36:42of the world.
36:43I've seen things I can't explain.
36:46As all the science tells us,
36:48the deeper you go, the stranger
36:50things get.
36:52As you can see, I mean, these are
36:53really steep slopes over here,
36:55and they just keep going
36:56underwater.
36:56It's just such a steep drop-off
36:58right down into very, very,
37:00very deep water.
37:01When you're way down in the depths,
37:03you get animals that you find
37:04other places, but they look
37:05completely different.
37:07The reason why they look so weird
37:08and they look alien is because
37:10it's an alien world.
37:11You're talking about intense
37:13pressure on them all the time,
37:14no light penetrating,
37:16extreme conditions in every way
37:17you can think of.
37:18If Caddy does exist, the most
37:20likely place to find them is down
37:22there.
37:27The team prepares Aquarius to dive.
37:29See you later.
37:30And I ready myself for the most
37:33remarkable journey of my life.
37:35How many people have gone down,
37:47you know, a thousand feet in
37:48something like this?
37:49I would say worldwide,
37:52there's probably fewer than 500
37:54of us.
37:57We're flying.
37:58It's dives like these that expand
38:01our knowledge of what is out
38:03there.
38:04Every trip to these depths has the
38:06potential to turn up something
38:08new.
38:09This is something that I dreamed
38:10about since I was a little kid.
38:12I mean, watching Jacques Cousteau
38:14go down into the depths, I've
38:16wanted to do this my entire life.
38:18Oh, man.
38:34Top side AQ.
38:36Copy loud and clear, loud and
38:37clear.
38:38Jeff does his final checks.
38:53And it's dive, dive, dive.
39:08These oceans have 170 times more
39:24living space than all of the
39:26world's other environments put
39:27together.
39:30And deep oceans may have more
39:32diverse life than a tropical
39:33rainforest.
39:38Dancing through the water column
39:40is a gelatinous ballet.
39:49A chorus line of tunicates
39:51and cephalopods,
39:53tinafores and nadarians.
39:55For us surface dwellers,
39:57everything here is totally
39:59alien.
40:01That ROV that we were using
40:03gave us kind of a visual of
40:04what's out there in here, you
40:06know, to some degree.
40:06The fishing pots gave us a
40:08sampling of the life that's
40:09down here.
40:10But actually being in it, in
40:12this environment, it's like
40:14nothing else I've ever seen.
40:15I can't explain how surreal it
40:17is.
40:22Hey, Jeff, what's the
40:23temperature of the water out
40:24there?
40:24About 42 or 43 degrees.
40:27So just about like 6 degrees
40:28C?
40:29Yeah, it's pretty cold.
40:30How about the pressure?
40:32It's a couple hundred psi, a
40:33couple hundred pounds per square
40:34inch out there.
40:36At nearly 13 times the pressure
40:39on the surface, we're entering
40:41a zone where humans don't
40:42belong.
40:45If I was not in this sub, I
40:48would basically implode.
40:50You'd be pretty flung.
40:51It's just completely the alien world
41:07to anything that we're used
41:09to.
41:09And yet, 75% of the Earth's
41:12surface is this.
41:15Nearly three quarters of our
41:17planet, and we know less about
41:19earth and the surface of the moon.
41:26Man, look at those rocks.
41:28Just the possibility of what's
41:29hiding in there.
41:31There could be anything.
41:39Wow, it's just covered in squat
41:41lobsters.
41:50There's all these things just
41:52zooming past the window here
41:54that I have no idea what they are.
41:56We're right here on the bottom.
41:57I mean, this is where the
41:59scientists that we've met have
42:00told us if we want to look for
42:01undiscovered creatures, here's
42:02where they are.
42:03This is where the First Nations
42:04people talked about the
42:05Shleilikum living.
42:06I mean, it's down here.
42:10It's down here where we just
42:11have no idea what we could find.
42:20That is absolutely the coolest
42:23thing.
42:24That's the coolest animal I've
42:25ever seen.
42:26Look at him turning red.
42:27That squid just inked.
42:29There's packets of ink still in the
42:31water.
42:31I wonder what made it, ink.
42:35With the flick of a switch,
42:37daylight floods the blackness.
42:47And there, caught in our
42:49headlights, is a real sea monster.
42:52That is unreal.
42:53That's a lion's mane jelly.
42:55Look at the tentacles just
42:56splaying out like that, just
42:58catching all the plankton that's
42:59drifting by.
43:02This is a real sea monster.
43:04I mean, these guys, the tentacles
43:05will get over 30 feet long.
43:07They'll get over 10 meters.
43:09They're just absolutely
43:11remarkable.
43:11They grow huge.
43:12This is a little one in
43:13comparison.
43:14I've only ever seen them out of
43:15the water, and it just doesn't do
43:16them justice at all.
43:17I mean, everything's stuck together
43:19and clinging.
43:20Down here, it's so graceful.
43:21Just so perfect.
43:25You can only understand so much
43:27from a fish out of water.
43:28an oarfish on a slab, or a glimpse
43:32of what might be caddy on the surface.
43:35To truly appreciate any animal, you
43:38have to see it in context.
43:41If caddy does exist, away from the deep,
43:44it might well be an aberration.
43:46This was definitely something in the water
43:48that we'd never seen before.
43:50A freak.
43:51I've never seen anything like it.
43:52A monster.
43:54It was something I had never seen before,
43:55and it was black and it was big.
43:57But for me, down here watching this wonder,
44:02caddy makes perfect sense.
44:03And if you wanted to seek a certain shame
44:07and power, you would go in search
44:09of where this creature might live.
44:13I may not have found caddy on this trip,
44:16but everything I've learned leads me
44:18to one conclusion.
44:19That it does exist.
44:23I am a scientific skeptic,
44:25yet I believe a real sea monster,
44:27as yet unrecognized by science,
44:30is swimming somewhere out there.
44:33And when we do find the proof,
44:36it'll come from down here,
44:38in the deep ocean.
44:40I hope that this is him.
44:46I have fun.
44:48After you,
44:49I may have seen a rain
44:51and a Dank on you
44:53and it'll come
44:54to something beautiful.
44:59You still see you.
45:00I have faith.
45:02I will take back today.
45:05Here we go.
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