Weirdest things found underwater: Ah, the ocean. Vast, loving, home of all life on the planet we call home. Each wave calming and terrifying, the power of the ocean is not to be underestimated. It’s a truly alien environment, and one we may never fully understand. After all, we know more about the surface of the moon than the abyssal depths of the sea, and the moon is technically easier to reach.
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Strong currents and crushing pressures have so far stymied our attempts at exploring its depth, leaving entire ecosystems and species undiscovered and unknown, as well as losing much of our own heritage to its anger. Sometimes it gives them back. A tsunami might reveal a long-lost temple, or a deep sea trawler might haul up something that would put the toughest fisherman off fish for life. When it does give us a clue to what lurks in the darkness, all too often, it’s frustratingly vague, hinting at totally alien life that has survived since before the dinosaurs and could quite easily squash you like a bug.
And sometimes, we find lost cities, temples, civilisations, frustrating hints at what came before before it was washed away in a flood or when some ancient priest angered the wrong god. So much of our own past is a mystery, and we are constantly finding relics and clues as to what came before.
It’s a deep, dark world, full of beautiful and terrible things that could reduce a grown man to tears. Whether they be tears of joy or terror depends on what you find.
16. Diving Bell Spider
Spiders. Bane of women, small children and newspaper publishers alike, they spin their webs of horror to ensnare their prey and the occasional idiot blundering around blindly. They have colonised the Earth, and continue to merely tolerate our continued existence. At least we can take comfort in the fact that they can’t survive underwater yet.
Meet the Diving Bell Spider, the first in a new line of spider super-soldiers. They build webs that specifically trap a days supply of air, which they only leave to hunt and restock on oxygen. As a result of living underwater, they’re bigger and stronger, with longer legs to dive deeper, probably to better storm Karl Stromberg’s underwater base.
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