About 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered in water. Water is main source of life on any planet and why not, it hold many secret also. Till date most of parts our oceans are still to be explored.
Discoveries are made on day to day basis, some of them are very shocking and mysterious. The life underwater is very different from what is found above the surface. When divers go down deep in the water there are sometime surprises which are quite shocking.
Let find out the shocking discoveries which were made underwater
1. Steam engine under water (Locomotive): Well we are are not sure this 1800’s steam engine can work underwater but how did it get there ? This big things lies here biting the rust.
2. Underwater City of Shi Cheng: This city in China was man-mad was was built during the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25–200) but now it lies submerged in the Qiandao Lake . Atlantis has always been the unsolved mystery but till then we can satisfy ourselves with this one.
3. Meeting held underwater: You might of heard of people getting married underwater but how about Government meeting held under water. President of Maldives held world’s first underwater cabinet meeting on 17 October 2009 to discuss the issues of climate change and how it is affecting the oceans.
4. Remains of Apollo 11: We all know that Nasa mission to Moon was completed by Apollo 11. This first rocket has lot of admirers and Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon funded the exploration to find the Apollo 11 remains. After almost four decades of its launch, the engine of Saturn V rocket Apollo 11 was found at the ocean floor.
5. Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park: Caribbean sea holds a sculpture park with 500 statues. It was created by created by British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor. The park is famous among the scuba divers, snorkelers. If you are interested then why not take a plunge to witness it.
6. The Mariana Trench: The Mariana trench is huge v shape trench, around 1500 km wide and having depth of 11000 meters. It so big that even if a Mount Everest is dropped in this trench then it still its peak would be 1 km under the water. Read more about it here.
7. Spiders: Most of this us think that spider lives above the water. There is one species called Diving Bell Spiders or water spider is known to live almost entirely under water. I wonder what fishes would be thinking of this Spider or getting scared of it?
