Journey to the Oceans Depths

goodbye even to recreational scuba divers. It's the maximum allowed for them. 200 feet and here's the first orca. These whales inhabit the relatively shallow waters of almost every sea and ocean in the world. Did you know that they're the apex predators, by the way it means they have no natural enemies and no one can take them down at. At 230 feet we meet whale sharks the largest known fish species weighing up to 60 tons and they're also quite long livers, well yeah i guess their livers are long at that, but actually it's about their life expectancy they can live about 130 years. Now look if you're a scuba diver at 330 feet your a real pro because at 330 feet they'll have to be very cautious not to get decompression sickness. It occurs if you rise too quickly to the surface and if you're lucky you can also see a giant pacific octopus. It dwells in cool water starting at 430 feet deep and going down as far as 6,600 feet and now we're entering the dark part of the ocean. At 490 feet, just one percent of the light from the surface reaches us. All the rest is absorbed by water everything that's deeper will get darker and darker still. At about 660 feet there's a giant oar fish circling our submersible. These creatures are believed to be the source of all sea serpent sightings and also a lot of alliteration. Sometimes, they swim up to the surface and freak out sailors and swimmers. Okay, now we're at 980 feet and it's a Japanese spider crab. Why a spider you ask? Well their legs are very long and arched in a way of a spider. Without further prompts by the way there's almost nothing more to them than legs. The body of such a crab is normally just one and a half feet across. Going deeper now and at 1,640 feet you're going to see the last of the blue whales, no not really the last of them, I mean that's the deepest they can swim. They don't really need to dive that deep for food which they have in abundance in shallower waters but they still can. I guess it's just for the sake of showing how awesome they are, after all they're the largest creatures in the history of earth both in the sea and on land. There are sounds fin whales make to talk to their friends many miles away. They can do this thanks to the sofar channel or deep sea channel that generally starts at 1970 feet but can vary in depth. It's a layer of water where the speed of sound is at its minimum and sound waves can go thousands of miles before disappearing. At the depth of 2,723 feet we have reached the point where the Burj Khalifa tallest building in the world would not even show its tip on the surface, if it were put under water. Now we're entering the really interesting part of the ocean, where no sunlight reaches us and strange creatures dwell. One of those is the giant squid, yes that legendary type, it inhabits the depths of 2,950 feet. Just imagine the creature with eyes the size of frisbees. Sperm whales hunt down these beasts but they certainly can fight back. What a sight it would be to see such an encounter. At 3,000 feet, that's where pitch darkness finally falls on us. The midnight zone. The pressure here is so huge that if you somehow end up being here without a submersible, well you'll simply be crushed in a couple of seconds and that without seeing a thing. At 3600 feet there's west Mata, one of the deepest ocean volcanoes in the world. Its last eruption was in 2009 and it was even filmed by a remotely operated vehicle. 4,200 feet down below and we see the ferocious great white sharks. These ultimate predators feel great at such a depth. Their eyesight is rather poor and they navigate by scent, so they really don't need sunlight to hunt down their prey. Also the leatherback turtles, the largest turtles in the world, dive at the same depth. I wonder if they'd do it to tease the great whites. At 4,900 feet you see huge nets that's because we're at the depths where the catch-all fishing method is used. The nets are here to be dragged along the ocean floor catching everything unfortunate enough to be caught. I'll let you decide how detrimental this is to the ocean life. At 6,000 feet if we were in the grand canyon we'd be sitting at its lowest and deepest point. Imagine that all the crevasses have been thoroughly filled with water and you'll get the perfect picture. Now if we're really careful then at the depth of 6,600 feet we'll be able to see the black dragon fish. A nightmarish creature that dwells in the deep and dark parts of the ocean and trust me, it's better off staying there. It looks like something from a horror movie and I'd rather it never crossed my path. At 7,400 feet we'll be saying goodbye to sperm whales. This is the deepest point they can dive and frankly they have no real business at such a depth, maybe they hunt the black dragon fish, of course, or it hunts them.... Nah, the difference in size is too big. sperm whales can reach 62 feet in length which makes them the largest toothed whales in the world. Not many creatures can counter that. It's good that our submersible has a