The Bottom Of The Ocean Is The Most Foreign Place On Earth By A Trillion Percent

Holy SHIT!!! You could have told people this was CGI footage from a Sci-fi movie that is coming out soon and they wouldn't blink. What an incredible video of a place we have close to zero footage of otherwise. They say we know more about outer space than the deepest parts of the ocean and when you look at things like this that fact is extremely believable.

Here is the description of what's going on from the Nautilus page:

Whale look what we have here! During the final dive of this year’s Nautilus expedition season, our team discovered a whale fall while exploring Davidson Seamount off central California’s coast with researchers from Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The skeletal remains of this relatively recent fall are of a baleen whale estimated to be 4-5 meters long, and the team is working to identify the species. The site exhibits an interesting mid-stage of ecological succession, as both large scavengers like eel pouts and octopus are still stripping the skeleton of blubber, and bone-eating Osedax worms are starting to dissolve the bones. #nautiluslive @mbnms @sanc

The whole idea of submersibles is unreal to me as well. These vehicles go down to depths that would crush most lifeforms on Earth INSTANTLY and film animals that may have never experienced light before. These are actually aliens compared to the plain stuff that lives up here on land that live completely separate from the rest of the world. A whale dies and makes its way down to the depths where it basically disappears from reality, but that is just the beginning of the story for these extra-terrestrials. The coolest thing to me is the entire eco-system of creatures that dispose of every single part of the whale from the blubber to the bones. Everything has a role and a place. SO COOL!!! Now I just have to figure out if its possible to do an episode of Barstool Outdoors exploring the oceans depths or do something with Submersibles…