12 Incredible Facts About the Ocean

1. More than half of Earth's oxygen comes from the ocean and not from trees. It comes from marine photosynthesizers like phytoplankton and seaweed. https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/plankton/every-breath-you-take-thank-ocean 2. If you think we've discovered everything the Earth has to offer, think again. More than 80% of our ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html 3. The longest mountain range on Earth is called the "mid-ocean ridge." About 90% of the mid-ocean ridge system is under the ocean and spans 40,389 miles around the globe. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/midoceanridge.html 4. The Mariana Trench is so deep that if Mount Everest was placed into the trench at its deepest point, its peak would still be over two kilometers (1.2 miles) under water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench 5. Due to different levels of water density, there exist underwater "rivers" in the ocean. One such "river" was discovered off the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHBvKDOfWiI 6. When a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor. It can sustain a complex, localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a "whale fall". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall 7. Deep-sea gigantism is a phenomenon resulting in massively over-sized sea creatures. Even scientists are not 100% sure what causes the gigantism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_gigantism 8. Every year, hundreds of great white sharks migrate to a seemingly random area in the mid-Pacific Ocean and just seem to hang around. No one knows why. This area has been named the "White Shark Cafe." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Shark_Café 9. When ships pass through Point Nemo in the southern Pacific Ocean, the closest other humans are in the International Space Station 400 kilometers up. It's actually a spot in the ocean that happens to be 2,688 kilometers (or 1,450 nautical miles) from the nearest land. https://archive.theoceanrace.com/en/news/8644_8-Point-Nemo-facts.html 10. The deepest ocean sinkhole in the world is in the South China Sea and is named the "Dragon Hole," or "Longdong." It is roughly 987 feet deep. Below 328 feet, the hole is devoid of oxygen and deadly to marine life. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/south-china-sea-blue-hole-could-be-world-s-deepest/ 11. The African continent is being split in two due to the birth of a new ocean. In 2005, an eight-meter-wide and 60-kilometer-long stretch of the Earth opened up over a period of just ten days. https://www.bbc.com/news/10415877 12. If we could capture just 0.1% of the ocean's kinetic energy caused by tides, we could satisfy the current global energy demands five times over. https://www.ge.com/reports/post/104835220022/magic-in-the-moonlight/ Please like, share and subscribe! Thank you for watching.