Once upon a time there lived Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Writer. And he once wrote, in 1928, the story “The Call of Cthulhu,” which became legendary. About terrible monster who lives at the bottom Pacific Ocean among the ruins of a sunken city called R'lyeh. And what’s characteristic is that it’s not just somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The author indicates specific coordinates: “47 degrees 9 minutes south latitude and 126 degrees 43 minutes west longitude.”

Now fast forward to 1992. Then the Croatian engineer and researcher Hrvoje Lukatela decided to determine the most remote and inaccessible point on the globe. It turned out to be 48 degrees 52 minutes south latitude and 123 degrees 23 minutes west longitude. Quite close to Cthulhu's lair. However, the engineer turned out to be a fan of another writer - Jules Verne - and decided to name this place in honor of Captain Nemo, since this is where the unsociable captain of the Nautilus would prefer to live.

But Lovecraft still made his presence known in 1997. Scientists heard a strange sound from under the water near Point Nemo: Bloop. They probably felt uneasy. Then, of course, they said that somewhere a huge ice floe broke off and collapsed.

Whether there is an octopus sitting there, a lost city or a giant submarine resting there is unknown. But we can absolutely say that there is a whole city of space ruins there: this place has long been noted as the safest for sinking spent satellites, ships, and so on. For example, there are the remains of the Soviet Mir station. Six Salyut stations. SpaceX rocket. Five space trucks, including the Jules Verne ship.

Just about Cthulhu: in the early 1950s, the crew of a Northern Fleet submarine detected strange sounds in the Norwegian Sea. The commander even suggested that the submarine was surrounded by some creatures.

They actively maneuver around vertically and horizontally, their sounds are unknown to us, and we cannot classify them...

From the story of the submarine commander

The Cold War was going on, so the Soviet military decided that the enemy had deployed a direction-finding system for ships. The USSR Navy launched a program to counter this system and called it "Quaker" because the sounds were croaking. We've been racking our brains for thirty years, but we still haven't figured out what these sounds are. The program was simply closed. Meanwhile, the Americans themselves listened in puzzlement. Already in the Pacific Ocean. Oceanographer Christopher Fox even classified croaking: he called a more melodic variation Julia, tapping - a train, a sudden sharp sound - a whistle. According to the main version, everyone was frightened by minke whales, relatives of humpback whales. However, the controversy continues.

It’s also a cemetery, only not for spaceships, but for sea ships: cruisers, destroyers, tankers. And also planes and tanks. And thousands of sailors and soldiers. There was a Japanese military base there during World War II. In 1944, the Americans destroyed it during Operation Hilston. So everything has been lying there ever since, covered with corals. Curious divers often swim there, but local residents categorically advise them not to do this: every year, scuba divers disappear, so much so that their bodies are not always found.

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Sandy Island

In this case, it is, of course, quite difficult to talk about the location, because the islands seem to be... no. That is, the famous navigator James Cook put it on the map in the 18th century, it is mentioned in documents from 1908, and even on Google maps it was until 2012, but the expedition members recent years he was not found. Moreover, in the designated place the ocean depth was at least 1300 meters.

There are no dolphins or whales there. At least no one saw it. And somewhere there must be at least four ships and three fighters. Unless, of course, they fell into some other dimension and so on. The story is very “Bermudian”: first, in 1953, three ships disappear without a trace at once, without even having time to transmit an SOS signal. Then the research expedition "Kale-maru-5" is sent to the same place, and it suffers the same fate. And in 1979, three American supersonic military aircraft disappeared. The legend says that at first two disappeared somewhere, and when the third flew to look for it, the pilot reported a certain spherical red glow, then screamed - and that’s all. In general, a logical explanation is quite possible: the place is volcanically active, and eruptions create powerful typhoons. In addition, gases rise from the bottom. According to scientists, they create strange flashes of light.

Since we are walking around and around Bermuda, let's carefully sail away from them to the sea, which has no shores, because it “ends” far from any land. The fact is that this sea rotates like a funnel. It is warmer here than in the rest of the ocean, and the water surface is slightly higher general level seas. Here they swim in circles brown algae- sargassum - and all kinds of garbage, because once it gets here, it doesn’t float away anywhere, it just spins endlessly. Australian scientist Richard Sylvester said that the air above it is also spinning, the whirlpool creates small cyclones into which a plane can easily be sucked. But that's one thing. But to suck in an entire crew and not touch the ship is something else. This is exactly what happened in this sea with the French merchant ship Rosalie in 1840. It was found empty. The sails are raised, but there is no one on board. And there were several more such cases.

Although lakes, from a geographical point of view, are not part of the World Ocean, let’s add about them, after all, they are also water, and interesting things also happen. It was either 1937 or 1938. The ship was sailing on the lake. Captain George Donner stood watch on the bridge at the helm for several hours. Then he went to rest in the cabin and asked to wake him up in three hours. The assistant came when ordered. I knocked. There was no answer. The door was locked. I had to break it. The cabin is empty! The ship was searched, but the captain was nowhere to be found. Since then, nothing has been known about him. And in 1950, a Douglas DC-4 passenger plane took off from New York to Seattle and disappeared over the lake. There were 58 people on board. Neither they nor the wreckage were ever found. In both cases, everything happened precisely on that part of the lake that was considered bad: it is believed that it is located between the cities of Ludington, Benton Harbor in Michigan and Manitowoc in Wisconsin. So there too - no, no.

The ocean is a mysterious element that holds many inexplicable secrets. Researchers managed to recognize only a small part and solve some of the mysteries of deep waters. But humanity still has many discoveries related to this water element. It is quite possible that people will find out where the ships disappear to in the Bermuda Triangle and see the world's largest animal living in the depths of the ocean.

Water occupies 70% of the Earth's surface, and today there is still a lot left unsolved mysteries ocean. This article presents three mysteries of the oceans that are of greatest interest.

Great rogue wave

People living near the sea or ocean know how to determine that a wave is approaching the shore and manage to evacuate residents of nearby settlements in time or send fishing boats to the open sea. But in open waters you may encounter something even worse - a large rogue wave, also known as a rogue wave. It can reach from 20 to 30 meters in height, sometimes more, appears unexpectedly and terrifies even experienced sailors. Experienced fishermen cannot predict its appearance, and all that remains is to pray that the ship does not capsize and drown, and that everyone on it is able to safely survive this disaster.

The destructive power of a wandering wave

A large rogue wave can easily sink not only fishing vessels, but also supertankers, which, it would seem, nothing can harm. A rogue wave covers everything that gets in its way. The ship's hull cannot withstand such pressure, and it instantly disappears under the water.

It is almost impossible to study a rogue wave and the reasons for its sudden appearance. To learn the secrets of the oceans, scientists have to make guesses and hypotheses based on the stories of eyewitnesses who miraculously survived a collision with a wave.

One day scientists will be able to understand the reasons for its sudden appearance and therefore predict dangerous places where the rogue wave is raging. But when this will happen is still unknown, and sailors heading out into open waters are praying not to encounter a rogue wave on their way and to return home to their family.

Bermuda Triangle

For more than a hundred years, a place called the Bermuda Triangle or the Devil's Triangle has frightened and at the same time attracted people. More than a hundred ships and planes disappeared without a trace in this zone, and over a thousand people disappeared. No one ever found their remains.

The territory of the Devil's Triangle is delineated by three points: Puerto Rico, Florida, and Bermuda, from which it gets its name, but disappearances have also been noted beyond the designated border.

Several documentaries and feature films have been made about the Bermuda Triangle. Every year this place becomes overgrown with more and more myths and legends, and therefore it is sometimes difficult for scientists to convey their discoveries to humanity. It is easier for people to believe in unexplained disappearances than in scientific evidence.

Unsolved mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle

Scientists have not unraveled all the secrets of the ocean; the Bermuda Triangle holds many of them. Until now, most of the aircraft and ships that disappeared in the anomalous zone have never been found. And there are countless speculations about what happened to them.

• One version is based on the fact that the Bermuda Triangle is located on the site of former volcanoes. And with small seismic vibrations, bubbles filled with methane rise from the bottom. They can reach large sizes and, falling between them, the ship ceases to stay afloat and goes to the bottom. And if they get into the bubble itself, the entire crew dies from gas poisoning. All that remains is an empty ship, drifting in the open waters of the ocean.
• Another version of the solution to the mystery of the oceans is the presence in anomalous zone infrasound waves. Falling under their influence, a person cannot concentrate, he is overcome by panic and may even experience hallucinations. Under such pressure, the crew members cannot stand it and throw themselves overboard, which leads to their death.
• There is speculation that the Bermuda Triangle is a UFO base. There have been several recorded cases where eyewitnesses talk about the appearance of round flying objects. They either disappeared under the water or, emerging from it, disappeared over the horizon.

And these are not all versions of the disappearance of people caught in the Bermuda Triangle. The secret of the ocean depths will someday be revealed.

Pyramid underwater

Every year, scientists put forward new assumptions about the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, and it is quite possible that humanity will soon find out where thousands of people disappeared without a trace. An explanation for this may be another mysterious phenomenon that was discovered in the Devil's Triangle area. While studying its bottom, scientists came across a pyramid that is several times larger than the Cheops pyramid. Taking a closer look, scientists found that the material from which the structure was made resembles polished ceramics or glass, but is neither of them.

The Bermuda Triangle keeps many mysteries and secrets, and it is unknown when scientists will lift the veil and tell humanity the reasons for the disappearance of aircraft and ships. And these are not all the secrets of the depths of the oceans.

Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench is located in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, near the Mariana Islands. It is the deepest depression known to mankind. This is where the most mysterious secrets of the Pacific Ocean are hidden.

For many years, only an approximate depth was known, but as a result of several measurements, scientists came to the conclusion that the Challenger Deep (the deepest point Mariana Trench) is located at 10994 meters with an accuracy of ±40 meters below sea level. These figures are amazing, because the bottom of the depression is further from sea level than the top of Mount Everest.

The Mariana Trench was formed due to the displacement of 2 lithospheric plates - the Pacific and the Philippine. The Pacific plate is older and heavier than the Philippine plate, and therefore, as it moves, it creeps under it, thereby forming the deepest and most mysterious trench in the world.

Discoveries of the ocean depths

There were several dives to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and during these processes more and more new discoveries occur, the secrets of the oceans never cease to interest people. For example, scientists assumed that at a depth of more than 6,000 km, life ceases, and that in such conditions, in complete darkness and under enormous pressure, not a single marine animal or fish could survive. But imagine their surprise when a fish was discovered at the very bottom of the Mariana Trench. Outwardly, it looked like a flounder. Scientists, when diving to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, were able to make many discoveries, but much still remains a mystery hidden under the water column.

Monster from the Abyss

People talk incredible stories, in which the sailors saw a large monster in the Challenger Deep area. It was not possible to get a good look at it, but the appearance of the marine inhabitant did not go unnoticed. According to eyewitnesses, a script for the documentary film “Secrets of the Ocean” was created; the film turned out to be interesting and attracted a lot of attention to the unsolved phenomenon.

During one of the scientific dives, scientists heard a sound reminiscent of the grinding of metal, and cameras recorded the appearance of an unusual shadow reminiscent of a dragon from a fairy tale. After some thought and deciding not to risk expensive equipment, the device was raised to the surface. Imagine the surprise of all the team members when they saw how the super-strong metal of the device was deformed, and the 20 cm wide steel cable was half sawn through. Who or what wanted to leave the module forever at the bottom of the Mariana Trench remains a mystery, the answer to which humanity does not know when it will receive, or whether it will receive it at all.

The underwater world is amazing in its size, it contains many mysterious and inexplicable things, but I want to believe that someday scientists will be able to unravel all the secrets and mysteries of the world's oceans.

While many people look into space in awe, they forget that incredible prospects of unexplored wonders may lie much closer - in Earth's oceans. As technology improves, the ocean continues to reveal more and more secrets.

1. Large amorphous creature

Recently, a video was posted online that showed a giant amorphous blob-shaped creature floating near a deep-sea drilling rig. The creature pulsated near the underwater cameras for long enough to attract attention. A creature of incredibly huge size, glowing from within, constantly fluctuated and changed its shape.

Some have suggested that it was a completely unknown creature from the depths of the ocean. Others felt that this could be evidence of some kind of alien presence at depths where humans could not reach. Most researchers stated that this giant jellyfish, which was disturbed by the drilling rig.

2. Crystal pyramid in the depths of the ocean

There are many stories about strange crystal pyramids that were found deep in the ocean, supposedly near the Bermuda Triangle. Those who insist on the existence of such artifacts claim that most scientists know about them, but deny everything for conspiratorial reasons.

However, the vast majority of researchers insist that these stories of crystal pyramids under the ocean are misleading. Similar stories allegedly began to appear after swindlers announced that they had found a broken piece of crystal near the top of one of these pyramids, which supposedly had magical properties.

3. The secret of immortality

"Benjamin Button Jellyfish" has an incredibly unique feature. If they encounter serious injury or simply reach an advanced age, then these jellyfish can reverse the aging process and turn back into a polyp, starting life cycle again. This allows them to heal from their injuries and live essentially forever, which currently poses a major threat to the world's oceans.

Button's jellyfish begin to populate parts of the oceans, breaking the entire balance of marine flora and fauna. Although many scientists doubt that people today can find a reason for the true immortality of jellyfish, others argue that in the future such a thing will be possible for people. At a minimum, this could be a cure for cancer.

4. Atlantis - reality or fiction

Many theories about the lost city of Atlantis are completely wild and fantastic. Some say that Atlantis is located in the Bermuda Triangle, although legends never mention its presence in that area. Others believe that the domed cities of Atlantis still survive deep underwater.

A historian named Bettany Hughes studied ancient myth about Atlantis and realized that Plato, probably under the guise of Atlantis, allegorically described the island of Santorini, located not far from ancient Greece. The people who lived in Fera, a city on this island, were very skilled merchants and traders who benefited from the strategic position between three continents. This allowed them to become very rich and lead Ferais to prosperity.

Unfortunately, the island's residents had no idea that they were actually living right on top of a volcano. In 1620 BC. the volcano literally exploded into an eruption, and the explosion was so huge that it affected almost the entire world. Plato has almost certainly heard of it. The remains of Thera are perfectly preserved, like the famous city of Pompeii, which was also destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

5. Intelligent life could be much closer

Scientific explanation The legend of the mermaids implies that sailors were often at sea for long periods of time without women and often drank, so it is not surprising that they experienced visual hallucinations, mistaking manatees for mermaids. However, the ocean is very great place and largely unexplored. Nobody knows what's going on in the depths. People are always looking for intelligent, human-like life, but it can look and act completely different.

6. The main enemy is pressure

Many people are surprised by the incredible amount of money spent on space exploration when the ocean is right next door and is still largely unexplored. They cite the colossal costs of spaceships And space stations, believing that the cost of studying the ocean could be tens of times less.

In fact, in many ways, the problem of ocean exploration is much larger. After all, at a depth of just a couple of kilometers, the pressure becomes simply unimaginable, which is why a completely minuscule amount of the deep-sea part of the ocean has been explored so far. If radically new technologies do not appear, then people will not soon find out what is hidden in the oceans of the Earth.

7. The largest earthly creature

Many people have thought about what sea ​​monsters could be hiding at depths where people cannot reach. Previously considered myths have already been found giant squid, which can truly reach incredible sizes. In fact, even many normal fish can grow to nightmarishly enormous sizes under certain conditions in the deep parts of the ocean.

It is not surprising that people have long been wondering what the biggest and most terrible thing can live in the depths. Even if we remember the times of dinosaurs, the largest creature did not exceed the size of modern blue whale. However, much of the ocean remains unexplored, especially in the deeper areas, so no one knows what monstrously huge creatures lurk almost next to people.

8. The ocean is 95 percent unexplored

Some may have heard that the ocean is “95 percent unexplored.” Marine biologists believe this is a gross oversimplification. Scientists today, using satellites, radar and mathematical calculations, have created a map of the ocean floor with a maximum resolution of 5 kilometers. Although these are still very rough sketches, marine biologists have a pretty good idea of ​​where trenches and ridges are in the ocean.

Nevertheless, marine biologist John Copley, even while pointing out the meme's fallacy, also admitted to Scientific American that humans have actually explored far less than 5 percent of the ocean.

9. Methane hydrate - a new source of energy

Methane hydrate is a strange crystalline structure made of water and methane frozen together. Ever since the discovery of gas hydrate deposits several decades ago, governments have begun to seriously explore hydrates as a form of alternative energy.

Methane hydrates are certainly very useful in case of shortages of other natural gases, but there are certain problems. First, as with any undersea exploration, commercial production will be very expensive. And secondly, environmentalists fear that underwater drilling could lead to real disasters.

10. The answer to the "Bloop" sound

Back in 1997, people were confused by sound recorded underwater near South America. It was loud enough to be clearly picked up by two different stations several kilometers apart, and many people thought it was the sound of a colossal deep sea creature.

Some people even suggested that this is the notorious Cthulhu, whose mythical place of imprisonment (the underwater city of R'Lieh) is supposedly located a couple of thousand kilometers from the stations that picked up the sound. Eventually, scientists came to the conclusion that the sounds were simply the crackling sounds of ice shelves breaking apart underwater.

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Ancient and modern historical literature reports on the meeting of military and civilian sailors with mysterious animals of the seas and oceans.
These unsafe encounters with monsters unknown to science were witnessed by both our domestic and foreign citizens, who provided information about them.
For example, former naval officer Yu. Starikov reported that in 1953, in the area of ​​​​Kunashir Island (South Kuril Islands), together with the ship’s crew, he saw a sea serpent, which was swimming not far from the ship at high speed, and then, lowering its head on long neck into the water, dived without causing splashes.

Another eyewitness, naval officer Yu. Litvinenko, in 1955, together with other members of the team of sailors, also saw a huge snake in the Tatar Strait, whose head was big watermelon and protruded 4 meters above the water. They determined the length of the body to be 25 meters.

In the Barents Sea in 1959, the crew of the patrol ship SKR-55 under the command of Captain A. Lezov repeatedly encountered a swimming snake.
Snakes in the northern seas were dark brown in color, while in southern seas near Antarctica they were light brown in color and swam in groups of up to 30 individuals.
In July 1966, American travelers Blyth and Ridgway, while in Atlantic Ocean on an ordinary rowing boat, we met the Great Sea Serpent at night. They report that a large snake-like head on a long flexible neck rose from the water. Convex eyes the size of saucers, flickering with a greenish light, examined people. The creature swam, overtaking the boat, and continued to examine the travelers, turning its flat head in their direction. Soon the animal with a massive powerful body, bending its neck, dived under the water, leaving a luminous trail behind it. Describing what they saw, they reported that it was very scary and they were overcome by the feeling of an unprotected rabbit in front of a boa constrictor. People freeze even under the gaze of a far-swimming serpent.

For example, Canadian fisherman George Zegers, who fished in the area of. Vancouver, reported: “Suddenly I felt very strange. A shiver ran down my spine. I felt someone's gaze on me and looked back. About 50 meters from the boat, a head rose on a neck with a diameter of 30 cm and a length of more than a meter. Two pitch-black eyes stared at me intently. They protruded large on the head. The head was about 40 cm in diameter and rose 3 meters above the water. The animal looked for no more than a minute and, turning away, swam away. On his back there was a kind of mane of a dark brown color.”

On July 14, 1993, Canadian pilots Don Behrends and James Wells on a Cessna seaplane saw in the area of ​​the island. Vancouver in Saanish Bay of two blue-gray snakes that curved in a vertical plane as they moved. Researcher Dr. Bousfield believes that Saanish Bay is a breeding ground for these creatures during the month of July. In this case, the cubs are produced viviparously on the shore at night.

The famous modern zoologist, Professor of the Royal Institute of Natural History in Brussels, Bernard Euvelmans, collected and systematized many such observations in the book “Giant sea ​​serpent" He divided them into nine main classes, which included those similar to seals.

Snakes have left a noticeable mark in the mythology of many peoples of the world. They are especially revered in the culture of the East. Here they are considered kind to people, and not a fiend, as in Europe. The Eastern "Dragon King" is very powerful and has a length of 0.5 km. All natural elements submit to him. He has werewolf powers and can take on the appearance of a gray-haired old man. He lives in an underwater palace and is the custodian of untold riches. He controls the oceans, seas, rivers, as well as the economies of all 5 underwater kingdoms, which include the dragons of the green, red, yellow, white and black countries of the North and Earth. His retinue consists of the dragon kings of all the seas, along with their wives, daughters, and commanders. Snakes (dragons) are considered intelligent and non-bloodthirsty.
At the same time, European mythology is replete with a fanatical and uncompromising fight against dragons, starting with Zeus, Hercules and others, right up to the ideologists of the modern machine-less-spiritual world.

At the beginning of the 16th century. Swedish scientist Olaus Magnus, in his historical and geographical work “Sea Map,” with comments, reports on the dangers posed by sea monsters emerging from the depths of the sea. They were dangerous for sailors sailing on small ships. There are also cases when the crew of ships left the ship without any visible reasons. All that was left were the trembling cats and untouched food on the table.
IN last decades Reports began to appear frequently in the press that whales, sharks and dolphins were washing ashore in large numbers in different places on the planet. The most massive releases of animals are observed off the coast of South and North America, South Africa, Australia (Tasmania Island), Japan. The death of animals by year is: 1970 - 250 pieces, 1987 - 3000 pieces, 1988 - 207 pieces, 1989 - 340 pieces. This is incomplete data. Currently, about 130 areas of death of whales, dolphins, and sharks are known.

Massive strandings of animals occur between December and March. Some animals, fleeing from a source invisible to us, swim to the shore at great speed, while others climb ashore slowly but persistently. Being returned by people back to the ocean, they again strive to land. But if these animals were taken to another place and released into the sea, then they swam away.

In the United States, off the Pacific coast, there is a place where dolphins pass along the shore, one or two at a time, in full view of thousands of spectators. People called this phenomenon a “parade.” What caused the death of animals and their “parades”? So far, scientists believe that the cause of this phenomenon may be some kind of physical or physical-biological effect on animals from an unknown source.

Studies conducted with the participation of clairvoyant specialists indicate that cetaceans are ejected under the influence of powerful energy wave influences that come from an animal that looks like a giant “sea lion” or seal. Let's call him the “Ocean Lion” (OL).
The OL brain has several greater development than dolphins, and can, hypnotizing, emit high-frequency energy wave impulses that can plunge cetaceans into a panic or death state. This forces them to flee if they fall into the OL radiation sector. The appearance of this OL and the boundaries of its pulse-wave action are shown in the figure below.

The most distant waves cause anxiety in animals, and the middle waves cause fear, panic, and death.
A similar state of people is observed in certain places in Tibet, the Himalayas, Tien Shan, and also when meeting with large UFOs. In such cases, unconscious anxiety is initially felt. With further approach to the object, fear, horror, and then an insurmountable invisible air barrier appear. When you try to pierce this barrier with a stick, it is inexplicably shortened by the amount of its penetration into the “barrier”. Numerous examples of the energetic and hypnotic effects of snakes on animals and even on people have been known for a long time. Boas and even snakes can hypnotize and attract their prey (rabbit, frog, etc.) with their gaze.

As for the OLs, they live in families in ocean caves, which are connected by flood passages to the air caves of the islands and continental shores. There are at least seven families on the planet. Near Greenland, east of the Caribbean Sea, east of Tierra del Fuego, in the south Indian Ocean(near Antarctica), near the Solomon Islands, in the Chukchi Sea (north of Wrangel Island). Probably, the ocean territory is divided between them into zones of influence, like land animals and people. OLs do not eat cetaceans, they only expel them from their territory by the force of their special energetic influence. Research shows that OLs in the Chukchi Sea live approximately 350 km north of the island. Wrangel. This made it possible to establish the presence of two rocky islands there, 20 and 6 km long, rising above the water to 50-70 meters (see figure below). Legends say that about two hundred years ago there were hunters on the big island who took refuge from bad weather in long catacomb caves, around which there were the remains of some large stone structures. Stone and copper tools were also found there. There were also numerous signs on the stones. These islands are waiting for their researchers - archaeologists and geologists. It is possible that these islands are similar to Fr. Easter. The mysteries and abilities of ocean animals indicate the need to study the energy wave radiation of aquatic animals and terrestrial reptiles, which are given to them by nature.

Over more than 40 years of studying the world's oceans and atmosphere, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has conducted many meteorological and geodetic checks and compiled a huge photo library about the inhabitants of the underwater depths and more. Let's take a look at the most amazing ones!

A shot of a hermit crab looking out of its shell.

A predatory representative of the order of anglerfish is the European monkfish. It received this name due to its eerie and unattractive appearance.

This curious creature was captured by NOAA on the ocean floor in 2010. The creature is completely transparent, so everything that is inside it is visible.

And this is Bathysaurus - the deepest sea predator that can live in the water column at a depth of 3.5-5 kilometers.

Otter meets National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scuba diver.

A marine iguana was caught on camera during research in the Galapagos Islands.

An octopus called Dumbo. This rather rare specimen can live at depths reaching 7 thousand meters.

Another original underwater inhabitant is the sea urchin.

Cayman Islands and a stingray swimming at dawn in the sea waters.

A representative of isopods belonging to the order of higher crayfish. Also known as isopod.

A huge octopus gets into a fight with NOAA research equipment.

Seagulls sitting directly on the head of a humpback whale.

The cutest couple of manatees.

They are trying to save an olive turtle after an oil spill in the sea.

An oil slick and ships trying to clean it up.

A pod of dolphins photographed by the agency in 2010.

One of the oldest inhabitants of the deep sea is the chimera. It is also called the "ghost shark" because it is distantly related to modern sharks, but lives at very great depths.

A humpback whale among a huge flock of birds.

An entangled seal is pulled out of the net.

An unusually beautiful Sargassum clown sea.

Lobster is from the crustacean family.

Representative of nudibranchs