101 Facts About The Oceans

greetings among the factors my name is Sam and today I'll be teaching all you landlubbers about the many mysteries of the ocean the big wet thing that has us completely surrounded and threatens to seriously do a sin unless we start treating it better has fascinated humanity since time immemorial because it is indeed fascinating but how can you have a lake underwater how did thousands of rubber ducks help science and where the hell is that lantus anyway I want to go there on my next holiday it seems cheaper than center parks anyway to answer three those questions gonna be answered so get on your life jackets breathe in that salty sea air and prepare to get a little moist as we count up 101 facts about the ocean number one what technically is an ocean an ocean is a large body of salty water that comprises a large portion of the hydrosphere what's the hydrosphere no not a shimmering orb of magical water capable of reading minds that I write about to myself publish series of fantasy novels the hydrosphere is basically just all the water like all the water everywhere in on and above the surface of the earth number two so what's the difference between the ocean and the sea technically the sea is a section of ocean that is partially enclosed by areas of land for example the North Sea here is part of the Atlantic Ocean but it's surrounded in part by the eastern side of Britain and large parts of continental Europe chakra theists Budden kids number three the word ocean comes from the name of the Titan Gordo she anis who was the elder of the Titans in classical Greek mythology the ancient Greeks and Romans considered Oceanus to be the divine personification of a gigantic river that encircled the world a quick look at Google Earth will tell you that this is complete nonsense and the ancient Greeks and Romans were lying to you although I'm sure Bo people he believes that too number four a whopping 97% of the hydrosphere is made up of oceans of all the remaining water the vast majority is frozen and locked in glaciers all the water contained in all the lakes and rivers on earth makes up a miniscule 0.3 percent of all water on the planet number five approximately 361 million square kilometers of the planet is covered by ocean this is equivalent to roughly 75 percent of the Earth's surface number six the total volume of well water but all the water ever is approximately one point three five billion cubic kilometers unfortunately that's far too large for the puny brain to even conceptualize so think of it this way there's enough water in the world's oceans to fill a key with edges over 1,000 kilometers in length stills who overwhelmingly large you conceive in your puny PE minds well tough luck because I'm all out of helpful visualizations I'm afraid number seven that being said despite how vast the oceans may seem they're still relatively small in comparison to the overall size of planet Earth for instance if the Burj Dubai aka the world's tallest building at 829 metres high or equal to the distance from the centre of the earth to the surface the average depth of the world's oceans would equate to a mere ten centimeters extra on top in fact the oceans constitute only 0.02 3% of planet Earth's total mass number eight but the main thing to take away here is that much like Cersei Lannister dating life it's all relative though the oceans constitute only a miniscule part of the planet's total mass just the top 10 meters of the ocean is equal in mass to the entirety of the planet's atmosphere number 9 likewise just the top 3 meters of the world's oceans hold the same amount of heat as our entire atmosphere no way that can't be right the scene felixstowe it's freezing number 10 also likewise the top 2.5 centimeters or top inch if you like inches of the Earth's oceans contains the same amount of water as the entire atmosphere what we're saying here is that liquids are more dense than gases guys I I think hey I'm not a scientist if you are number 11 as I'm sure you are already aware the oceans aren't perfectly flat reflection pools but are ever-changing Cherne bumpy messes that's why your reflection looks so screwy when you look into it these perturbations on the surface of the oceans are coming known as waves and are caused by wind these waves known specifically as wind generated waves in scientific context can range from tiny ripples to huge waves after 30 meters high Surf's Up dude kara Bunga number 12 conventionally all the liquid water found sloshing around not in on or above land is split into five distinct oceans the Pacific the Atlantic the Indian the Arctic and the Southern Oceans collectively these large areas of ocean are known as the world ocean number 13 however the number of oceans can actually vary depending on who you ask the Arctic and Southern Oceans are often subsumed into others reducing the number of oceans on earth to four or even just three number fourteen despite the fact that oceans are all around us much like gloves and that humans have been whizzing around on the surface like absolute maniacs for thousands of years oceanographers are keen to point out that less than five percent of the world ocean has actually been explored this is mostly due to the fact that humans find it very difficult some might say impossible to breathe one submerged in water number fifteen that being said satellite imagery has enabled us to map almost 100% of the Earth's ocean floor but only to a resolution of around five kilometers it's like a really terrible camera only a tiny proportion less than 0.05 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped to the degree of detail required to detect of most items like shipwrecks or airplane wreckage or buried treasure number 16 the actual origin of the Earth's oceans isn't particularly well understood mostly because they are thought to be informed all the way back in the Hadean Eon which is like the the first a on the Hadean Eon began around 4.6 billion years ago with the formation of the earth good times and at some point within the next six hundred million years the place could absolutely flood it I bet someone has a tap on it happens more often than you think number 17 oceanic life forms like these guys here arrived roughly three billion years ago which is way way sooner than the lazy tourists real life forms which turned up only four hundred million years ago where two can make it land animal suit number eighteen as far as we know earth is the only planet in the entire freaking universe with oceans made up of liquid water although there are some evidence of large stable bodies of water existing elsewhere in the solar system the sheer vastness of the universe makes it likely that oceans do exist somewhere else other than Earth though it's only on our planet that liquid water ocean can be 100% confirmed I mean we've to look outside if you live by beach there are large bodies of liquid on Saturn's largest moon Titan for example but sadly they are only mere lakes and are made of liquid hydrocarbons rather than water thank us my next holiday idea number nineteen water travels around the planet in an enormous global loop known as thermohaline circulation or more colloquially the global ocean conveyor belt it zips around the earth via a combination of deep cold currents and shallow warm currents in a planetary circuit that takes around 1,000 years to complete number 20 the world's oceans are home to approximately 230,000 known species but because the vast majority of oceans are totally unexplored again owing to humanity's propensity to drown really really easily the real number of species that exists in the ocean is likely to be much much larger with some estimates putting the number as my at a staggering two million number 21 so as you can imagine the oceans are teeming with life honestly it's like corn on a Friday night down there in one study scientists looking as an area of the ocean about half the size of a tennis court found almost 900 species more than half of which were new to science that science science knows a lot number 20 approximately fifty to eighty percent of all life on Earth is found in the world two oceans it almost seems as though it's like the better place to live and we're lumbering around on land like morons I'm gonna make myself some gills for a long time dangerous don't make gills I'm still bleeding number 23 the blue whale can be found throughout the world's oceans and is notable for being the largest known animal to have ever existed on planet Earth exceeding the size of even the largest dinosaurs adult flea whales have hearts the size of Volkswagens which sounds like particularly weird poem and while their young are growing they can gain roughly 90 kilograms a day more than the average British man weighs or as much as a choppy British man weighs number 34 the world's oceans are also home to the all fish which are the longest known species of bony fish while the all fish is thought to only inhabit atop 1000 metres of the ocean it's rarely seen at the surface as it generally likes to the bit depths with little to no current as such they build up very little muscle mass leaving them unable to survive in shallower more turbulent waters number 25 the fastest creature in the oceans is a bit of a toss-up with some sources pointing to the impressive looking sailfish which can swim an incredible 100 meters in only 4.8 seconds and other suggesting the fastest fish is the black marlin which is thought to reach speeds of up to 80 miles per hour number 26 but enough about being the largest or the fastest what about good old-fashioned German efficiency jellyfish of the oceans most efficient swimmers as they consume 40% less oxygen than any other swimming creature unfortunately though they're just sacks of loosely contained gelatinous goo so you know swings and roundabouts number 27 aquatic animals which live at the very bottom of the ocean it known as the abyssal animals often glow in the dark and that's not that's carrot and why did that this is known as bioluminescence and it's done to attract mates attract prey or even camouflage the underside of an animal to look like the lighter surface of the ocean when viewed from below those cheeky Devils number 28 the deepest living fish nicknamed the ghost fish has been recorded at depths of 8000 143 meters Oh white that actually is scary this time and depths of 8,000 143 meters whoa it's not that scary just to go stab it number 29 giant kelp is a type of seaweed that grows at an astonishing rate to reach its usual height of 30 meters this cow species known by its scientific name of macrocystis Pyrrha Farah can grow up to two feet in a single day number 30 just one single milliliter of ocean water can contain over a million bacteria and approximately 10 million viruses luckily the vast majority of them are harmless but please don't go around drinking ocean water kids it's really silly bacteria and viruses a science review salt water can be deadly hey speaking of salt number 31 speaking of salt are white already said that well anyway speaking of salt just one liter of ocean water contains over 35 grams of salt for the Colonials among us that means that one cubic foot of ocean water contains over two pounds of delicious deadly salt number 32 if all the salt in the oceans were somehow removed and formed into an enormous salt cube for which we would presumably abandon all our gods and worship as the salty Savior said kee would have science measuring roughly 280 kilometers or 175 miles long so first we're done enormous keep it water and now we have a smaller but still enormous keep of salt frankly guys I think we might been better off with the water and salt covering the surface of the planet just my opinion number 33 so why exactly are the oceans so salty hmm well the oceans become salty because the water flowing into the sea from the rivers and streams picks up dissolved salt minerals as it erodes rock and stone which then becomes concentrated in the open ocean as the Sun shines directly on the water surface evaporating said water number 34 although regular water you know the kind you can find in your tap if you're lucky enough to have them freezes at 0 degrees Celsius soul-g ocean water takes a little more convincing to solidify and does not start to freeze until around minus 2 Celsius number 35 as such roughly 12% of the oceans are covered in ice at any given time which works out at around 7 percent of the planet's entire surface these are predictably located in the Earth's polar regions at the top in the bottom of the planet which I doubt is the correct scientific nominal sure but frankly my dear I don't give a damn number 36 if all the ice on the face of the earth melted at once the oceans would after a devastating series of tsunamis and floods killing millions if not billions of people settle at a sea level of 66 meters higher than it currently sits it's a good thing that the polar ice caps are only melting slowly then number 37 while the depth of the ocean varies wildly across the planet the average depth of the ocean is roughly 4 kilometers that's roughly the same length as the entirely unrelated Hollywood Walk of Fame probably just the salty not the 38 the deepest point in all the world's oceans is known as the challenger deep in the Mariana Trench which is located to the east of the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean it stretches down to a truly unsettling depth of approximately 11,000 meters at this depth you could sink the world's tallest mountain Mount Everest down to the bottom of the ocean and you'd still have to dive down a mile just to reach the peak although actually that will make climbing it's a lot easier numbers I do not Oh God number 39 and the oceans deepest points which we just mentioned as the Challenger Deep God keep up at this point the water pressure is 8 tons per square inch which means that basically if you were to go down there it would feel like having 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you and who wouldn't want that don't why I said that so sexily sorry number forty remember a couple of facts ago when I said that Mount Everest was the tallest mountain on earth I lied and I enjoyed doing it on an animalistic level Mount Everest is the tallest mountain measuring from sea level if one measures the Hawaiian Mountain Mauna Kea from its Oceanic base it stands at over 10 thousand meters high sadly only 40 percent of the mountain is above sea level cutting short its dreams of taking first place in the tallest mountain championships your wedding on a technicality their Everest number 41 although good old-fashioned sunlight has many great qualities and I'm sure it will make someone very happy one day it can't penetrate particularly deep down to the ocean though sunlight entering the water may travel roughly 1,000 meters down into the ocean there is rarely much significant light deeper than 200 meters as such it's kind of difficult to see Atlantis must have some great street lamps but also photosynthesis can't occur at this depth the meaning of life the largest oh the convention ii demarcated oceans is the Pacific at approximately 165 million kilometers squared this covers around 30% of the Earth's surface which is large enough to hold the entirety of the planet's land that's just one of the oceans guys honestly we mock Aquaman but he could make Ravagers number 43 unfortunately due to the perfidious effect of plate tectonics the entire land mass of the Americas is moving towards Asia at an alarming rate of 5 centimeters a year which doesn't sound much but it means that the Pacific Ocean is technically getting smaller who with a manual loss of 1 kilometer squared every 2 years and does the Pacific shrinks its evil cousin the Atlantic Ocean is only getting larger number 44 the Pacific oceans name comes from the espanol Mar Pacifica which means peaceful scene the O at the end of Pacific oh but also seem to imply that the Pacific Ocean is a boy which I assume is white blue I wouldn't know I'm not Spanish number 45 it's not just underwater mountains that best air land-based rivals either the Monterey Bay submarine canyon located off the coast of monterey bay in sunny california is deeper than the world-famous grand canyon but guess who gets all the attention the land can not on number 46 but it's not just about being the tallest or the deepest it's also about being the longest make your own jokes there mid-atlantic rate is the longest mountain range in the world stretching over 56,000 kilometers making it longer than the Rockies Himalaya and Andes Mountains combined but once again who gets all the love the land mountains I see a theme developing here number 47 staggeringly we did not even begin exploring the mid-ocean bridge until 1973 when a crew of seven French in America marine geologists scooted down to have a look-see in a submersible named Archimedes is a full four years after we managed to fire some dudes on to the flippin moon yep we waited until four years after we traveled three hundred eighty four thousand four hundred kilometers to the moon to visit something we've been sailing over for thousands of years number 48 but it's not just geological features that prevail over their undeserving land-based opponents the Gulf Stream of the Atlantic seaboard of the good old-fashioned US of A flows nearly 300 times faster than the Amazon and shifts nearly 4 billion cubic feet of water per second more than all the world's rivers combined number 49 in fact the Earth's largest known waterville is located between Greenland and Iceland and is get this underwater so listen to TLC and don't go chasing waterfalls because you'll drown known as the Denmark Strait cataract this seemingly counterintuitive phenomenon is caused by temperature difference between the colder denser water coming in from the east and the relatively warm water coming from the west which forces the cold water to plunge down over three thousand five hundred and five metres this constitutes a drop of over three times the height of Angel Falls in Venezuela which is the world's highest uninterrupted above-ground waterfall number 50 the Pacific Ocean contains approximately 25,000 different islands some of its greatest hits include the bestselling Hawaiian Islands the wildly successful Galapagos Islands and the entirety of New Zealand which is where they film that movie with the little people and the wizards and whatnot I think we did a FAQ video about them but there's so many facts these days huh number 51 however it's not all fun and games in Pacific surrounding the world's largest ocean is the Pacific Ring of Fire a large area which follows a tectonic boundary mostly around the majority of the Pacific plate basically what I'm getting at here is there's a large number of active volcanoes there seventy-five percent of the world's volcanoes are located here and don't need three of the world's 25 largest volcanic eruptions at the last 11,700 years have occurred outside the Ring of Fire additionally over 80 percent of the world's largest earthquakes take place in this region as well number 52 the Pacific also contains the Tama Massif which is thought to be the world's largest underwater volcano thankfully it's extinct because the entire structure is almost as big as the entire country of Japan number 53 the Pacific is also bordered by 42 countries as well as a number of territories belonging to several more nations even the UK has some real estate in the Pacific in the form of the isolated but no doubt lovely Pitcairn Islands number 54 the Pacific Ocean is so massive in fact at its widest point it's 5 times wider than the diameter of the moon number 55 moving on to ocean number 2 the second largest ocean on earth is the roughly s-shaped Atlantic Ocean which covers 21% of the Earth's surface number 56 the Atlantic Ocean gets its name from Atlas a Titan from Greek mythology who is condemned to hold up the sky for all eternity by the Olympians ieaves uses mates harsh number 57 the Bermuda Triangle is also located in the Atlantic Ocean and is the origin of a myriad of legends about mysterious supernatural forces sinking ships and crashing and then sinking planes however the perennial buzzkill that his statistics shows us that the Bermuda Triangle has no more ship and plane disappearances than anywhere else in the oceans number 58 you may have also heard of the Mediterranean Sea which is connected to the Atlantic Ocean via a little tiny stretch of water called the Strait of Gibraltar apparently the Med was dry land up until around 5.33 million years ago when the Atlantic water finally forced its way in between Europe and Africa and filled the place up recent studies suggest that this deluge happened within the space of two years number 59 by the way that stretch of Atlantic Ocean separating Europe and Africa is only 14 kilometers wide of course this is not a discussion about whether or not to build a bridge to connect the two continents some have even suggested an undersea tunnel but if a bridge were to be built it would be roughly twice as long as the current longest bridge in the world so no pressure guys number 60 the third largest ocean is the Indian Ocean which covers approximately 40% of the Earth's a big dumb face in ancient Sanskrit literature the Indian Ocean is known as ratnakara which means that a mine of gems snazzy number 61 though the Pacific may be the biggest and the Atlantic may be the most s-shaped the Indian Ocean is by far the hottest the water at its surface can sometimes exceed 30 degrees Celsius number 62 the fourth largest and second smallest ocean is the Southern Ocean which surrounds Antarctica or planet Earth's throat and arse number 63 as you can imagine the water surrounding the planets extremely cold butters is also extremely cold so cold that some of the water starts to go all hard and crusty which scientists apparently called Mike Oh ice of something anyway to stop this from happening to the insides of the fish who live there some of them have a natural antifreeze in their blood to prevent ice crystals from forming nintendo64 the Coral Sea in the South Pacific is home to the world's largest living structure the Great Barrier Reef measuring around 2600 kilometers in length the reef stretches down a huge section of Australia's eastern coast and unlike the Great Wall of China can actually be seen from space number 65 speaking of coral reefs a full quarter of all marine animals live in and around coral reefs and roughly 90% of all marine animals rely on them to some extent so coral is important it's not just a pretty color number 66 now perhaps you're a runaway teenage delinquent thinking oh yeah what's the ocean overdone for me while carving a pentagram into your school desk well sport approximately 70% of all the oxygen we breathe is produced by algae that lives in the ocean so while you're under my roof you're going to respect the hydrosphere number 67 the planet oceans have been called the largest museum on earth due to the fact that there are more artifacts relics and remnants of world history lying in the bottom of the ocean then in combined collections of all the world's museums including Jack ku would have made it rose you just have to move your fat bomb number 68 as such some people estimate that there are up to sixty billion dollars worth of sunken treasure sitting at the bottom of the world's oceans if that doesn't sound like the pretext to a clumsy the written yet undeniably enjoyable Nic Cage film I don't know what is 69 Nic Cage the wild oceans also contain an astonishing 18 million metric tons of gold unfortunately it's literally dissolved in water as tiny almost invisible specks scattered across the planet you know like those gold flakes in vodka except even smaller the gold in oceans is so diluted that its concentration is in the order of parts per trillion good luck to you mr. cage number 70 you can however find undissolved gold in and on the sea floor again though just visiting the bottom of the ocean is extremely difficult let alone mining down there minecraft would not prepare you for that as such there is no cost-effective way of mining for ocean gold so it's just gonna be sitting there forever number 71 that being said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA estimates that if we could extract all of the gold from the world's oceans every single person on earth would have four kilograms of precious metal this would instantly make it less precious defeating the point entirely sorry to burst your bubble there Noah if that is your real name number 72 the amount of shipwrecks dotted about throughout the oceans is also staggeringly high James Delgado the director of NOAA's maritime heritage program estimates that there may be as many as a million sunken boats and ships lying sleepily at the bottom of the ocean the majority of which are still entirely undiscovered United Nations disagree with delgado however as they estimate that they're as many as 3 million shipwrecks at the bottom of the oceans number 73 unfortunately an endless amount of treasure isn't the only thing that gets dropped into the ocean it's estimated that around 6 billion kilograms of rubbish or trash is dumped into the ocean of every year the majority of which is plastic number 74 humanity discards approximately three times as much rubbish into the world's oceans as the total weight of all fish caught some even believe that in just three decades the weight of all discarded plastic in the ocean will exceed that of all the fish their combined number 75 additionally around 10,000 shipping containers are accidently dropped into the ocean every year woopsie roughly 10% of those contain toxic chemicals that then leak into the ocean again oops number 76 in 2006 the US Army admitted that between 1944 1970 it had secretly dumped 32,000 tons of nerve gas agent into the ocean as well as 400,000 chemical bombs and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste I mean we've all been there does it don't by the way literally no one else has ever been there number 77 if you think the pollution factor finish well you've got another thing coming and that thing is another potion fact and here it is there's an ongoing increase in the acidity of Earth's oceans which are roughly 30 percent more acidic than in the mid-sixteenth century soon you won't even need bathing suits that it's gonna dissolve off you and everyone will see your nipples think of that huh then one that day number 78 it's estimated that the degree of disease and death caused by polluted coastal waters cost the global economy somewhere in the region of 13 billion dollars a year number 79 in fact humans are so all fallen a pollute of the oceans so egregiously there is even an area in the North Pacific where discarded rubbish moved around by large floating ocean currents called gyres has collected in an enormous swirling mass known horrific ly as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or the Pacific trash vortex the polluting plastics break down into grain size fragments creating a churning mass of plastic soup the grains of plastic are often ingested by fish and so could potentially end up on your plate to my boy or girl number 80 almost a third of all the world's oil supply comes from offshore oil fields in our oceans some of the most popular oil drilling areas are the Gulf of Mexico the Arabian Gulf and the North Sea which is Garvin in the UK number 81 however smart people estimate that if we capture just 0.1% just 1/10 of 1% of the oceans kinetic energy the current global energy demand could be satisfied five times over number 82 in 1992 a container ship called the ever Laurel was caught in a storm which resulted in 12 shipping containers going overboard one of these contained almost 29,000 rubber bath toys which somehow burst open releasing its cargo into the briny depths turns out that every missing shipping container has a silver lining as these escaped bath toys were then tracked by scientists leading to discoveries that revolutionized our understanding of the oceans currents number 83 a similar but less accidental case is that of Harold Hackett since the mid 90s Hackett has thrown around 8,000 bottles containing messages into the ocean and has received over 4,000 responses back from all over the world including from Africa South America and Europe Hackett claims he writes back to every single response he gets number 84 the Atlantic Ocean is so large that if America invaded it and let's be honest nothing's impossible these days every American citizen could have their own cubic kilometer fun terrifying but fun number 85 due to its irritating quality of undiscoverable 'ti the oceans contain numerous bizarre mysteries that the fire comprehension one such head-scratcher is referred to as the bloop an incredibly low frequency an extremely loud sound captured in 1997 by our friends over at NOAA at a point in the South Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles off the southern coast of Chile it's one of the loudest ocean sounds ever recorded and nobody's quite sure what caused it is what an incorrect person would say scientists in 2012 confirmed it was caused by cry size ohms or large booming noises caused by cracking ice it's a shame our thoughts Cotulla but there we go number 86 you may also be utterly floored by the assertion that beneath the surface of the ocean you may find rivers and lakes this is caused by areas of dense high salinity water settling in depressions of the ocean floor and are known as pulls these poles often exhibit similar characteristics to their land-based equivalents having clear shorelines and waves number 87 the point in the ocean furthest away from any land is known as point Nemo and lies more than 2688 kilometers from the nearest land the British virtual band Gorillaz claimed it as their former headquarters on an island made of rubbish called plastic Beach number 88 in fact the oceans are so large Savior an alien landing on earth completely at random you would have around 60% chance of landing out of sight of land at which point you probably think it's just a swimming pool planet and drive off somewhere else and both of Venus or something number 89 over 90 percent of trade conduct between countries is carried by large ships some of which accidentally lose their cargo and dump thousands of rubber ducks into the oceans which can then be used to study oh wait we've covered this already okay well yeah oceans crucial for business number 90 the oceans are also used to transport information communications companies have built and maintained enormous networks of electronic cables stretch across the ocean floor these cables have to be incredibly durable to stop them from being chewed on by all manner of aquatic beasties number 91 roughly 75% of the world's mega cities which are those with a population exceeding 10 million are located either close to or on the coast by 2025 it's thought that 75% of people will live in a coastal population again rising sea level guard is number 92 the oceans can even make hotter cities that should be far colder Seattle is often much warmer in January than more southern American cities like Kansas or Oklahoma because the ocean is Seattle essentially acts like a huge radiator by slowly releasing heat that's been stored up in the previous months number 93 days of June is recognized as World Oceans Day the days used to emphasize the importance of the world's oceans to the global economy and provoked anti-pollution efforts it's also Tim berners-lee's birthday so yeah very important today for us all I think number 94 one of the oceans most destructive forces are tsunamis which are caused by offshore earthquakes and can travel up to 800 km/h they can be hard to physically see when out in the middle of the ocean as they start off at a height of around 10 centimeters but as they move towards the waters of the shore these massive surges of water build up to around 3 to 13 meters high causing catastrophic destruction and loss of life number 95 however even larger waves known as internal waves can be found beneath the surface of the ocean reaching heights of over 240 meters high such waves travel deep below the ocean's surface as huge walls of water distinguished from surrounding water by greater density which allows them to flow and collapse like regular waves number 96 the surface of the ocean isn't even uniformly flat when taking the variant of waves into account over deep underwater canyons the ocean is affected by local gravity leaving depressions in the surface that could be up to 20 meters deep spread over an area of roughly 160 kilometers wide number 97 the Atlantic Indian and Pacific Oceans are home to the brittle mouth fish also known as light fissures and angle mouths a particular genis of this species called cyclone is thought to be the most abundant vertebrae on earth numbering up to a quadrillion individuals luckily they're usually smaller than the average human finger number 98 owing to its numerous overseas territories and long coasts roughly 50% of all United States territory is in the ocean number 99 the monsters you find on old maps of the oceans were used to indicate unexplored areas presumably the message was we don't know that there are sea monsters there but we don't not know that there are sea monsters there number one harbored every year Finland gets roughly seven kilometers squared larger as it rebounds from the compressive weight of Ice Age glaciers essentially Finland is getting bigger and quickly as it rises out from the Atlantic Ocean number 101 hydrothermal vent on the ocean floor can heat up the surrounding water to an incredible 400 degrees Celsius it doesn't boil because of the immense pressure found at such depths my god it's hotter than Jennifer Lawrence down there actually not ready just joking that's not impossible darling if you're watching but I know you're not but hey one day she could be who knows anyway that was hunter one fax by the oceans hope you enjoyed it let me know in the comment below what you won't see next and how your while you're at it enjoy these two videos here and I'll see you next time goodbye

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Published: Wed Nov 08 2017