23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share

Most of Earth’s surface, 70 percent, to be exact, is covered by the ocean. There are a lot of secrets that these waters conceal as humans have managed to explore just 5 percent of what lies on its floor. The unknown is always frightening, so let's look at what we do know, as the deep waters are quite fascinating, although they can give us the creeps sometimes.

These facts were shared by curious Redditors whose minds were boggled when they learnt them, so Bored Panda collected the most intriguing ones in this list from threads you can find here, here and here. If you would like to learn more creepy facts about the ocean, you can read this article and you may also be interested in this one where divers and fishers share their scary experiences.

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share Greenland sharks can live to be 500 years old. Just lurking and swimming and doing sharky things for 500 YEARS.

teaandcrumpets_ , NOAA Photo Library Report

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago

I just had to look them up, 250- 500 years life, their meat ( untreated) is toxic to humans which I would think contribute to their life span, the females can be pregnant from 8 - 18 years ( ouch) and they are non confrontational to humans . I'm in awe :o

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share The fact that the famous picture of the blobfish is not actually what a blobfish looks like. When scientists first found them, they did not know that the blobfish is not as resilient as other deep sea creatures, and That particular blobfish was pulled to the surface too quickly, and had its skin and flesh torn off from the immense force of rapid decompression. The blobfish in that photo has its skin torn off. What’s even worse, is that companies have made t shirts and even squishies entirely based off of this photo. It still chills me to this day.

rubberbandballgaming , National Geographic Report

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago

so sad poor thing :(

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share MintyLotus said:

Lobsters are effectively immortal

WafflesOfChaos explained:

They technically don't age, and they will be as active at 70 years old as they were at 5 years old. They will only die from not being able to molt properly anymore.

MintyLotus , Adam Report

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Random Person 2 years ago

And from boiling water, and a fork

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share the Corryvreckan Maelstrom in Scotland is a permanent whirlpool that is the third strongest in the world. It can produce 15 feet high standing waves.

Applesintheorchard , Alan Stewart Report

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Mimi M 2 years ago

Much better pics here: https://tinyurl.com/yrpa2w82

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share The concept of "Shark Spotters" is common where I live. People stand at a vantage point above popular beaches and look for sharks in the water to help ensure the safety of beach-go'ers.

However, underwater sensors have shown us (well, shark biologists) that WAY MORE sharks swim very close to the beach than shark spotters can see.

People really have no idea how many sharks they've probably encountered - that being said, very few sharks are actually dangerous to humans.

TheSaddestLittleBoi , Hermanus Backpackers Report

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KING ILLEGAL FOREST 2 years ago

The summer after 7th grade, a kid in my class was surfing and fell off his surf board, and kicked a shark in the face. The shark bit his leg (out of surprise apparently) and then swam away really fast. He showed off that giant bite mark on his leg for the whole year when we came back to school.

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share Most oxygen on earth comes from phytoplankton in the ocean, not trees. Also, the giant squid wasn't seen alive until 2001 and was largely considered a myth before modern photography.

i_R_drunk , pxhere Report

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WordWeaver 2 years ago

And a huge problem for all life that breathes oxygen. What are we doing about it? What can we do about it?

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share There is a floating trash island [The Great Pacific garbage patch] which is 3 times the size of France

RSPanther , Kevin Krejci Report

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Emma Dakin 2 years ago

oh, this is so sad.

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share Back when Animal Planet was a channel that was worth watching, I learned that the Sailfish is the fastest fish in the sea. It can reach speeds of 68 mph! (110 km/h for you Metric users) I always thought that was really cool.

CodeDragon7 , Linnaea Mallette Report

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Kel_how 2 years ago

Cheetah fish!

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share The deep sea is the largest museum on Earth: There are more artifacts and remnants of history in the ocean than in all of the world’s museums, combined.

We have only explored less than 5 percent of the Earth’s oceans. In fact, we have better maps of Mars than we do of the ocean floor (even the submerged half of the United States).

Back2Bach , Francesco Ungaro Report

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Pixie 2 years ago

Which half of the US is submerged right now?

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share The white-sand beaches of Hawaii are made of parrotfish poop.

Writer's note: According Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "The fish bite and scrape algae off of rocks and dead corals with their parrot-like beaks, grind up the inedible calcium-carbonate reef material (made mostly of coral skeletons) in their guts, and then excrete it as sand."

[deleted] , Adona9 Report

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Missmegs 2 years ago

🎵 I wanna thank you... for poopin out sandy beaches!🎶 https://youtu.be/OA3PqJxQkhU

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share Tuna are going extinct.....google it

Writer's note: The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists 63 tuna species of which 15 are decreasing in population. The Bluefin tuna is critically endangered.

dxdifr , Tchami Report

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WordWeaver 2 years ago

Guess why.

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share Not scary but the Pacific is that deep that it hides most of the worlds tallest Mountain

Stormcell74 , Jeff Djevdet Report

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Mimi M 2 years ago

More lazy image-finding.

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share The Pacific Ocean is ever so slightly shrinking each year, while the Atlantic Ocean is ever so slightly growing. This is because the North American Plate is ever sliding westward. Given enough time, the West Coast of the United States could meet up with Asia.

Kothophed , Michael Hohimer Report

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

I don't think anyone will notice.

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23 Fascinating, Weird Or Even Scary Facts About The Ocean People In This Online Group Decided To Share If a man managed to get to the bottom of the ocean, he would feel a weight equivalent to that of 50 passenger planes over his body.