I Must Go Down to the Sea Again

The surface of our planet consists of 71% oceans that account for 97% of the h2o in the world, yet the vast majority of the earth's oceans remain a mystery. Information technology'due south easy to permit your imagination run wild when you recall about what might be beneath the seas that nosotros know aught most.

Underwater mysteries aren't new — simply can be absolutely enthralling. Beneath the ocean waves, in that location are many things nosotros can't fifty-fifty begin to imagine. For your viewing pleasure, we compiled a list of personal accounts of some of the most shocking and amazing occurrences to always take identify on the water.

Dolphins Leaving Bioluminescent Trails

We were sailing on a 134-foot, double-masted steel brigantine through an area of high biological productivity in the north Atlantic one night. My shipmate was on bow sentry. I was on the quarter-deck assisting the mate with whatever needed to exist done. I suddenly heard my shipmate yelling my name and saying I needed to come up up to the bow equally quickly as I could.

When I got up at that place, I saw 7 or eight bottlenose dolphins swimming through the bioluminescent h2o right under the bow of our boat. Every inch of them glowed dark-green. It was like something out of a dream. They looked like glow in the dark torpedoes. When we looked out across the horizon, we saw green spots everywhere. There must have been close to 30 dolphins swimming around. Nosotros got virtually the unabridged crew out of bed to come watch. That was definitely something I'll remember for the remainder of my life.

My buddy that grew up in Hawaii has a ton of crazy tales of the sea. He told me ane about this old homo that survived from bringing in fish from the sea. My friend went out on the boat with him, and he watched the erstwhile man do some sort of ritual of striking the boat and the water. He said he saw bubbles starting to rise to the surface, and an old barracuda came up, along with many smaller fish. The man collected the smaller fish, thanked the barracuda, and it returned to the depths. He did this every twenty-four hours and sold the fish as a way of living.

Nature Is Happy to Show Off

I was out on Lake Michigan early in the summer. It was a actually warm solar day, but the h2o was actually cold still. Much like a hot day on the tarmac, this created mirages. The only deviation was that the mirages were inverted since the air was much warmer than the water. So, if you looked at a boat in the altitude or the Chicago skyline across the lake, yous would see a mirror image of the object in the air to a higher place the bodily object. It also made the sand dunes in the distance look similar a sheer cliff that was painted in watercolor. Information technology was really trippy.

Their Eyes Weren't Playing Tricks on Them

I was sailing in the Caribbean area for v weeks a few years ago when I was sixteen, somewhere between Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago. It was nighttime, and I was on scout with a fellow kid and our caput instructor. Nosotros're sailing along, looking at the stars and talking about stuff, when of a sudden a very bright light appears in the sky. In the blink of an eye, it had lit up everything nosotros could run across for miles around, as though there had been a total moon (there was no moon).

We couldn't discern anything well-nigh the shape of the source of light. It was just a bright dot flying across the sky. Our best guesses were that it was a satellite or shooting star, only I've never known either of those things to be that bright. I besides saw information technology once again one or 2 nights later, but neither of those people was on scout with me.

What He Constitute at Ocean Changed His Life

I worked at a boat rental rock during my belatedly teens. I was sailing around my local harbor for a quick little lap after piece of work. I got out to the centre of the bay and saw something struggling in the h2o. I sailed closer and took a pass — it was a puppy. I went back to practice some other laissez passer, and I got close enough to catch it by the scruff of its cervix. I took it habitation, and information technology was the all-time dog my parents ever had.

You, Too, Can Discover a Message in a Bottle

I was possibly 8 or 9. We were boating around the San Juan Islands, and my sister saw something glinting in the bounding main. My dad pulled the boat up adjacent to it and pulled a freaking letter in a canteen out of the h2o. Information technology said basically to go to these coordinates (on a nearby isle) to get his "treasure." We went in that location and found a chest under a log.

Eerie Darkness and Consummate Quiet Showing No Signs Of Life

Navy sailor hither with two deployments to the Gulf. My ship found two "ghost ships" — one was drifting with no ability in the Indian Ocean. No response on bridge-to-span and no visible signs of life or electricity. The other was stuck on an outcrop of rocks off the coast of Oman, completely abandoned. Nosotros wound upward using it as target practice for an F-18 to articulate a structural adventure to the waterway.

A Manatee in Disguise

I was canoeing on the coast of Florida, and my wife said, "Let's paddle up to that log." We did, and right before we reached it, the "log" snorted heavily and swam away. It freaked me out. My wife laughed because she knew it was a manatee and knew what would happen. She grew up in Florida.

He Wasn't Trying to Surprise You…

I almost hit a sea turtle the size of a mattress off the declension of Washington. It all of a sudden appeared, and I threw the engine in reverse and swerved difficult to port, throwing passengers off their seats in the procedure. I looked out the starboard window as I went by and saw two eyes staring at me on a caput the size of a basketball.

Hey, Penguins Need Vacations Besides

I saw a penguin swimming effectually in the Gulf of United mexican states. A friend invited me to go line-fishing offshore when I was visiting him. While out there, he pointed out the funny black and white bird in the distance that would occasionally swoop downward. He proclaimed it was a penguin. I calmly explained there was zero, aught, NO WAY that was a penguin. I explained currents, geography, water temperature, etc. We floated closer to it. Information technology was a penguin. We snapped a few pics of information technology. Dorsum at home, a few minutes on Wikipedia told us information technology was Spheniscus demersus. Go figure.

Body of water Creatures Falling from the Sky

I was on a yacht commitment across the Gulf of Mexico, heading from the Dry out Tortugas to Primal West when in that location was a serial of wap, wap, wappapa wap noises above us. Nosotros looked upwardly in time to run across a bunch of flying fish striking the canvass, just as the get-go of them started falling and flopping all over the deck.

The Water Has a Mood That'south Quieter Than Quiet

The nigh amazing thing is the non-sound of wind. When you're on shore, current of air rustles through the trees, moves air current chimes, makes birds chirp, etc. Way off shore, none of those sounds exist. It's very eerie to feel the wind but have it make no dissonance. It's only a force that moves across your pare and then gently leaves without a audio.

A Whale's Hole in One

I was walking along the beach with my girlfriend, when all of a sudden I hear someone scream, "Is anyone here a marine biologist?" Being a marine biologist myself, I ran over to the commotion. What I saw was a beached whale with a golf ball stuck in its blowhole. I removed the golf ball, and the beach-goers helped me push the whale dorsum into the ocean. The body of water was angry that day, my friends.

A Sweetness Company Who Isn't Afraid to Say Hi

This isn't besides amazing, but it was really cool at the fourth dimension for me. While in Cape Cod, right off the shore of Nauset Beach near East Orleans, about vii years ago, I was on the family gunkhole, a 24-human foot Grady white. We were sitting there looking at the seals in the water feeding on some sort of bait fish when we saw one of them split off the pack. At present, continue in mind that we were almost 100 yards away, and then we were surprised to meet that this seal was headed in our direction. He must take been very interested.

It didn't take more than 30 seconds for this guy to come right up to the side of the boat we were on, and, I kid you not, it but treaded water and looked at u.s. for about 5 minutes. We were all taking pictures and "talking" to this kind visitor every bit most people would do, all while he calmly watched us. After nosotros had put down our cameras and sat back down, withal watching our new friend, he swam off and went back to his seal buddies to continue feeding. It was truly an amazing experience for me.

Subject of Passenger Trauma

When I was a child, we used to take the hovercraft across the English Aqueduct, which I hated, even more and then after the particular twenty-four hour period of forcefulness-9 gales. I remember waiting to board but being told that it was too rough for the crossing. Then, eventually, they said they'd do it, and nosotros all got on. Just instead of but being the usual 25 minutes, it took much longer because the hovercraft had to go along the English declension first to endeavour and find a safe passage across the aqueduct. I call up quite vividly the commonly beautiful white cliffs of Dover careening up and down past the spray-covered porthole windows while I felt very sick.

The Sea'due south Misleading Aureola of Condolement

I got to swim in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. I'grand a very good swimmer and accept never had any fears of the water ever. As soon every bit I jumped in (the water is very clear when you're away from the shore line), I couldn't aid but notice how deep and big the ocean is. It was a very unsettling feeling, so I got out immediately. I would never do that over again.

Surrounding Sounds in the Deep

Information technology'due south not nearly what I saw just about what I heard. I was on a 688i second flight course boat for part of my career in the U.S. Navy. We were heading from Hawaii to Japan, moving fast, then you tend not to see a whole lot on sonar considering of flow noise unless you're close.

SAWS (Situational sensation systems) reported a transient audio and said it was weird, only there was no trace on the screen then it wasn't a distant source. Information technology was all around united states of america. I switched my station over to broadband, so I could see and hear what SAWS was seeing and hearing and started listening. Sure plenty, I heard it likewise. It was a sound like crystal bells ringing with no divers source, except I had more sensors at my disposal because I could flip through any configuration. The sounds, whatever they were, were deeper than we were and were all around us by the terminate of it.

I still don't know what information technology was, but nosotros always called them the deep ones in reference to Cthulhu. It was the type of affair that made the hair on the back of your cervix stand up up to listen to, though. I was in one of the deadliest hunter-killers, powered by a nuclear reactor, and that kind of audio fabricated y'all imagine something much bigger out in the depths.

Sea Creatures Can't Hibernate When They're Beingness Hunted

I used to work on an educational tall ship in California. Ane time, nosotros were lucky enough to encounter a pod of orcas. As nosotros followed them, they picked upwardly speed, and we realized they were after a huge pod of common dolphins. They split upwardly, flanked the dolphins, and all of a sudden we see a dolphin become knocked into the air, followed by a lot of red water.

Too Close for Comfort

I was pleasure sailing with a lady off the declension of Australia. A smashing white shark flare-up out of the ocean with a seal in its oral cavity and vicious within 6 feet of our vessel. We had both been snorkeling earlier that twenty-four hours.

Hungry Dolphin Shatters Peaceful Stereotypes

I was pulling in a massive squid on the surface, letting it de-ink, when a huge black shape came out of the water and took information technology. I initially idea it was a shark as information technology was roughshod, merely information technology was a "dainty, gentle" dolphin. If I ever hear another person tell me dolphins are beautiful or gentle, I'll signal out my nifty-white-blazon experience with a dolphin.

Modernistic Pirates and Their Shady Beliefs

I was sailing with a couple of buddies, and nosotros came across this powerboat seemingly stranded. When we went up to information technology, a ton of people came out on deck with iPhones recording the states and demanding we give them a lift to shore. They were super shady-looking guys, and we did not let them on. As we started sailing away, they were shouting, and one guy lifted his shirt and showed united states his weapon. We took off.

Live Animals Aren't Meant for Jousting

I own a jet ski, so I similar to consider myself a slight crewman. I was speeding upward and down the middle of the lake next to my house when I hit something underwater, and it caused the jet ski to come off the water a few inches. I came to a stop and turned around to — low and behold — a gator floating upside down in the water next to me. I didn't stick around to find out if information technology was witting, but I like to call back I jousted an alligator that twenty-four hour period.

A Small Boat Won't Piece of work every bit a Submarine

I was sailing my Splash Dinghy (eleven feet) on the body of water for the get-go time at a regatta in Weymouth (Britain) dorsum in 2012. The winds/waves were Force Half dozen. So I was running down wind when of a sudden the bow of my boat plunged into the water, lifting the unabridged rear end up out of the water. I managed to recover her and continue, but I'll never forget the sight of all that water rushing over and by the deck and mast. I felt as if my dinghy of a sudden became a submarine.

Sea Creatures Bring Children's Books to Life

While serving in the U.S. Navy in the early '90s, we were in the Adriatic. One morning at about dawn, I saw through my lookout spectacles what looked like a pole sticking direct out of the water. We were in the middle of the body of water, so I didn't know what to make of seeing that out in that location in the mirror-like seas.

Every bit the ship approached it, I reported seeing a pole sticking out of the water. Equally we passed information technology by, I could see what information technology was. It was a sunfish, and having never seen 1 before considering my home is equally inland as you can get, I was super thrilled, because it looked exactly how my illustrated children's books on sea life described it. The 10-year-old in me rejoiced most seeing ane.

A High-Powered Nightlight on the Horizon

While on a crossing from the Bahamas to Charleston, South Carolina, I was on watch in the middle of the dark and saw a strange bright orange light rising up from the horizon until it flickered out. I couldn't figure out what it was, merely when nosotros got to shore I saw in the newspaper there was a rocket launch in Florida.

A Chilling Ice Tale Three Stories Tall

I was on a gunkhole in Alaska, and we were correct near a glacier. On our way abroad from the glacier, we saw a small piece of water ice fall off ane of the icebergs. Well-nigh 2 minutes afterwards, right in the spot where the boat had been a minute earlier, a massive piece of ice shot out of the water. It had to be three stories alpine and at least 15 yards wide, and information technology shot xxx feet into the air and settled downwards to a height of about 10 feet above the surface of the water. I have no idea how that could take happened.

Jump Frog? No, Leap Spotted Hawkeye-Ray

My parents were out fishing off the coast of Florida when a massive spotted eagle-ray with a 6-foot fin/wingspan leapt out of the ocean, flew right over the boat and their heads, shut enough to bear upon, and then splashed into the water on the other side.

These Eagles Take Swift Reflexes

Information technology was a cute day off the coast of Juneau, Alaska, and we were hobby fishing for salmon when nosotros defenseless a small fish. We noticed a big bald hawkeye soaring overhead and decided to effort and throw the fish to the eagle to requite him an easy lunch. My begetter-in-law threw the fish up in the air, and the eagle swooped downward, grabbing information technology out of the air before it hit the h2o. I was pretty stunned the eagle was then ready to take hold of a fish like that, but it seems his reflexes were pretty eagle-eyed, for certain.

A Ghost in the Hall During Nighttime Picket

I'm training on big ships right now, and on the training vessel, I take to stand nighttime watches. Downward in the ships, steering gear at two to 4 a.m. is not fun when you're in an isolated room. Sometimes, it sounds like a girl is talking down the hall, but you lot know no i's in there because there'due south only 1 entrance. It'due south the scariest thing.

The Silver Lining of Running from a Carry

I was paddling a canoe with some friends on a trip in Quebec (I think it was in the Lac Mistassini area). One evening, a acquit showed up adequately close to our campsite, and so we decided the best option was to suspension camp and paddle through the night to our next site, about a 10-hour paddle away. Paddling under the stars was cool enough with aurora borealis and very picayune light pollution, just I'll never forget the bolide (superbolide?) that zoomed beyond the sky and was bright enough to calorie-free up the expanse like information technology was daytime. I believe something similar happened in Thailand. It really was a once in a lifetime visual event.

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