Why Does the OCEAN Get Creepier the Deeper You Go?

Want to restore the planet’s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with my code AXEN6 will get the first month paid for by me: https://planetwild.com/r/axen/join If you want to get to know them better first, check out their mission fighting ocean plastic: https://planetwild.com/r/axen/m34 Fewer people have stood at the bottom of the ocean than have walked on the moon. We've mapped Mars in higher resolution than our own ocean floor. And the reason isn't budget. It's that space is genuinely easier to reach. The pressure at the bottom would crush a submarine like a tin can. The darkness is total. And the things living there look like nothing that should exist on Earth. The ocean has five layers. This video goes through all of them. And it gets worse the deeper you go. We have mapped roughly 25% of the ocean floor according to the Seabed 2030 initiative. The remaining 75% is completely unmapped dark territory. And based on what the explored 25% contains, the rest has no obligation to make sense. The deeper you go, the less the rules apply. Down there, the rules stopped mattering a very long time ago. **DISCLAIMER:** This video discusses verified marine biology and oceanographic research for educational purposes. Depth ranges for ocean zones are approximate and vary across scientific sources. The Ocean Census species discoveries referenced are based on 2024 expedition reports. The deepest fish record of 8,336 metres was confirmed by the 2023 University of Western Australia expedition and represents the current verified record at time of publication. **Sources:** Ocean zone classifications and depth ranges: NOAA Ocean Exploration. "Ocean Zones." oceanexplorer.noaa.gov Phytoplankton oxygen production: NASA Earth Observatory. "Phytoplankton." earthobservatory.nasa.gov Barreleye fish transparent head: Robison, B. et al., 2009 (Copeia). "Shape-shifting in deep-sea fish: when the barreleye fish looks up" — Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Daily vertical migration: Longhurst, A., 1976 (Deep-Sea Research). "Vertical migration" Vampire squid low oxygen survival: Seibel, B. et al., 1997 (Journal of Experimental Biology). "Vampire squid oxygen physiology" — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Edith Widder bioluminescence research: Widder, E., 2010 (Science). "Bioluminescence in the Ocean: Origins of Biological, Chemical, and Ecological Diversity" — MacArthur Fellowship recipient Goblin shark jaw mechanics: Nakaya, K. et al., 2016 (Scientific Reports). "Functional anatomy of the goblin shark jaw" Anglerfish male fusion: Pietsch, T., 2005 (Nature). "Dimorphism, parasitism, and sex revisited: modes of reproduction among deep-sea ceratioid anglerfishes" — University of Washington Carbonate Compensation Depth: Milliman, J., 1993 (Global Biogeochemical Cycles). "Production and accumulation of calcium carbonate in the ocean" Hydrothermal vent discovery: Corliss, J. et al., 1979 (Science). "Submarine thermal springs on the Galapagos Rift" — Robert Ballard expeditions Ocean Census 2024 discoveries: Ocean Census official expedition reports, 2024. oceancensus.org Hadal snailfish depth record: Jamieson, A. et al., 2023 (Marine Biology). "A new record of the deepest fish" — University of Western Australia / Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology Mariana Trench acoustics: Dziak, R. et al., 2017 (Oceanography). "Sources and levels of ambient ocean sound near the Antarctic Peninsula" Microplastics in hadal amphipods: Jamieson, A. et al., 2019 (Royal Society Open Science). "Microplastics and synthetic particles ingested by deep-sea amphipods in six of the deepest marine ecosystems on Earth" Seabed 2030 mapping progress: Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. "Progress Report 2024." seabed2030.org ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ For business inquiries: [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #deepsea #oceancreatures #marinebiology #DeepOcean #oceanography #oceanmystery #underwatercreatures #ocean ---