Ecotasia's video: I Went Swiming in the Middle of the Ocean at Night What Did I Find @TheWildlifeBrothers

What is Lurking out in the Open Ocean Void after the Sun Sets? I wanted to find out so I did somthing called Blackwater Diving, which is essentially diving in water so deep at night that you are fully enveloped by the darkness. For centuries ocean has been a place of mystery and fear, something that has continued to this day, though it has gone from sailors heading into the unknown on a voyage they may never return from to people freaking out while looking at pictures of some deep sea creature like a giant spider crab, giant isopod, some deep sea fish, or playing certain video games, a way to make the fear tangible without venturing out to sea. But that is no fun. I could just sit at home and talk about sea monsters, show footage of some strange deep sea animals, or do a playthrough of Subnautica, but to really explore the fear of the ocean and misconceptions about this place and the creatures of the depths we need to go out there, dive into the ocean, at night in water around 1000 meters in depth, nothing but a little rope keeping me tethered to the surface world, a bit like bait on a fishing line dangling above the open maw of the abyss. What will be waiting for me in this dark void? Monsters of the deep? Alien sea creatures so bizarre they defy the comprehension of the human mind? I am excited, maybe a little nervous to find out and show you. Sources [1] Beasts of the deep : sea creatures and popular culture. Hackett, Jon, Harrington, Seán. Herts, United Kingdom. 2 February 2018. ISBN 978-0-86196-939-5. OCLC 1024275039. 2] Whelan, Nathan V.; Kocot, Kevin M.; Moroz, Tatiana P.; Mukherjee, Krishanu; Williams, Peter; Paulay, Gustav; Moroz, Leonid L.; Halanych, Kenneth M. (November 2017). "Ctenophore relationships and their placement as the sister group to all other animals". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1 (11): 1737–1746. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0331-3. PMC 5664179. PMID 28993654. [3] Chokshi, Niraj (19 July 2018). "How a 9-Year-Old Boy's Statistic Shaped a Debate on Straws". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 August 2021. [4] https://seas-at-risk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Breaking-Free-From-Mining.pdf Archived 2021-12-23 [5] Parisé, J.; Walker, T. R. (2017). "Industrial wind turbine post-construction bird and bat monitoring: A policy framework for Canada". Journal of Environmental Management. 201: 252–259. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.06.052. PMID 28672197. I try to achieve the most well researched content I can, that said it is impossible to create content that is exhaustive on a given topic and therefore I implore you to investigate a given topic further. Welcome to Ecotasia! On this channel you can find wildlife footage and short documentaries on the natural world. I am an early career biologist who was inspired by the likes of the BBC Natural History unit, PBS, and Animal Planet as a child and then more recently by various nature YouTube channels to share my love for animals and nature. My goal is to document and highlight the interesting ecology and behavior of organisms I encounter, as well as cover and elucidate conservation and biological topics. Please Subscribe so you can join me to marvel and to learn twice a month. 0:00 Introduction 1:23 Reacting to the "Top 5 Most Dangerous Sea Creatures of All Time" ft. the Wildlife Brothers 19:04 Sea Monsters and Thalassophobia 21:33 Pelagic Life and the Diel vertical migration 23:00 Blackwater Diving in Kona 23:46 Comb Jellies 24:54 What is a Sea Elephant? 25:41 Siphonophores are Weird 27:52 Comparing Subnautica Leviathans to Real Sea Creatures 29:32 Cute Seahorse being Cute 31:36 My Unedited Thoughts on Blackwater Diving 32:52 Trouble in the Deep 33:33 Arguing with a Plastic Straw 36:26 Conclusion 37:00 Next Time and End Card Underwater Worlds https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAJNusnxcNoHUx_sNDYT92k Conservation Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx5OP7sbAZAIUm5UCl84q2KU2nI3YLpx