It’s crazy to think about what kind of things lurk within the ocean waters. The ocean is bigger than our minds can imagine, so there are a lot of things that are found by deep sea divers or even end up washing ashore!
F4U Corsair
This aircraft crashed during WWII. It’s found its final resting place in the bottom of the ocean since then. Weirdly enough, the water didn’t erode the plane as much as investigators thought. This could be a valuable piece of history if they could retrieve it!
The Antikythera Mechanism
This is what researchers called an ancient computer from 205 BCE. It was used to track the movement of the stars and moon.
The Ghost Fleet
This is a watery grave of a solider fro WWII. The gas mask is imbedded in this coral.
Sculpture Park
This is actually a museum site in Cancun, Mexico. Visitors can do a deep-sea dive to see them.
MS Zenobia
A 10,000-ton ferry sunk to the bottom of Lanarca Bay in the 80s. The ferry can still be found there.
Underwater River
No, it’s not actually water. This is a rare optical illusion happens when hydrogen sulfide mixes with ocean water.
USS Oriskany
This giant ship served in the Korean War and WWII. When it sunk, it ended up getting engulfed by a coral reef. It’s technically the biggest artificial coral reef ever!
Train Graveyard
These trains are just kind of chilling off the coast of New Jersey. The oldest car dates back to the 1850s. No one’s really sure why they were dumped here!
Yonaguni Monument
This huge monument is believed to be over 5,000 years old. It’s not clear as to how it got there or why. Some believe that it sank into the ocean after an earthquake.
SS President Coolidge
This ship was sunk with a huge fortune. It’s too heavy to retrieve, but maybe someday, someone will get it…
RMS Titanic
The Titanic’s grave is actually off the coast of Newfoundland. Tons of people have gone through to explore it. This is how it looks today.
Chinese City
This is actually just an underwater attraction off the coast of Japan. It was erected by China for people to go and explore.
SS Thistlegorm
This British vessel had trucks and war munitions. It was found in the Red Sea and a hot spot for professional scuba divers.
Manganese Balls
These are naturally occurring balls of manganese. They’re most common in the Pacific Ocean but have been spotted at other places.
Irish Silver
Researchers found these bricks of silver in the body of a British Ship. There were about 60 tons of these bricks down there!
Lost City of Heracleion
There were rumors of an ancient Egyptian city has plagued scuba divers for decades. Finally, they were able to discover it in the depths of the ocean. As you can probably tell, it wasn’t easy. After all, no sunlight could reach the ancient city…
Apollo 11 Rockets
Using technology created by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the rockets that carried Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins in the infamous moon landing were found deep in the ocean. They were recovered and are now national relics.
Sweepstakes
This was a Canadian ship that sunk back in 1885. It didn’t get that far down, and can still be seen on the surface of the body of water. You can even go swim around it!
Blackbeard’s Cannons
These are reportedly the cannons from Blackbeard’s ship after it was shot down off the coast of North Carolina. They don’t work now, obviously, but hold a huge historical significance!
Ancient Mediterranean Shipwreck
Off the coast of Malta, explorers found this shipwreck filled with ancient artifacts like pottery, tools, and coins.
Random Sneakers
On the Dutch island of Terschelling, citzens were shocked to see thousands of running shoes washing up on the shores. The source of the shoes was never clear.
A Piano
One day, this piano ended up underneath the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC. No one found out who put it there or why.
Rubber Duckies
Back in 1992, a shipping crate of rubber ducks fell overboard into the ocean. They ended up washing up on the shores in bulk! Sometimes, they will wash up in random countries.
Giant LEGOs
The guy who makes these is kind of like the Banksy of giant LEGOs… There is a Dutch painter and sculptor who calls himself Ego Leonard. He uses fiberglass to make these big dudes and then leaves them in random places.
Naturally Perfect Snowballs
This would be the perfect spot for a snowball fight! A Siberian beach was covered in these perfectly formed snowballs due to a rare phenomena. Pieces of ice rolled up and got polished by the elements. It’s so crazy!
A Giant Eye
In 2012, someone found this eye on the shoreline in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Scientists have said it looks like it belonged to a massive swordfish.
It’s E.T.
A life-sized version of E.T. was found floating on the ocean waters. In a panic, many people on shore called a lifeguard as they thought it was a human. Turns out, it was just E.T.!
Bunches of Bananas
Six giant crates of bananas fell overboard back in 2007. The bananas were on a ship headed to Cuba. The bananas ended up on the shores of the Netherlands.
Random Scribblings
Tons of these rocks started showing up on the beaches in Oakville, Ontario. There were inspirational and personal messages written on them. No one knows what went on with this…
A Mechanical Hand
It seems that someone dropped a mechanical prosthetic hand near Staten Island, New York. It ended up washing ashore within the mess of seaweed and sticks. No one ever claimed it.
SpaceX Debris
Pieces of Space X Falcon 9’s crashed rockets washed ashore on the beach of Elbow Bay in the Bahama’s. Locals were shocked to see these chunks of dangerous metals appear in their waters.
Fully Intact Shipwreck
The Navagio is now a tourist attraction in Greece. It was built in 1937 and smuggled cigarettes. It ended up getting destroyed in a storm back in the 1980s. It washed ashore on a beach where it now sits there!
Mysterious Sea Blob
West Coast shores were covered in these weird little spectacles back in 2015. There were about a billion of them that showed up on the shores. They are called velella, and marine biologists say that this happened once every three to six years.
Doritos Galore
Looks like someone lost their Doritos! A massive shipping container washed ashore with tons of small bags of Doritos.
Sports Flyswatters, What a Steal
A cargo ship somehow lost a bunch of crates that had flyswatters with college sports teams on them. This is definitely more of the weirder finds…
Motorcycle
A horrible tsunami hit Japan in 2011 and ended up sweeping this bike out to sea. After, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle washed up 5,000 miles away on a beach in British Columbia.
Dead Birds
Around 6,000 dead waterfowl washed up on the shore in Ontario, Canada. Scientists think that they ate fish laced with botulism.
Backpacks of Drugs
In 2013, someone found six backpacks full of packages of cocaine off the coast of Japan. The total weight of the drugs was nearly 2 and a half pounds and worth about $70 million.
WWII Mine
Beachgoers came across with bizarre, barnacle-covered buoy of some sort. Turns out, it was actually a WWII mine.
Gigantic Pipes
A bunch of different giant pipes ended up on the shores of Norfolk, England. Some of them were as long as 1,500 feet long and eight feet in diameter. It’s said that they broken off of a Norwegian tug boat after it collided with an Icelandic container ship.
Underwater Ship
This ship was found at the bottom of of the sea. It was a war ship from hundreds of years ago. Scientists still believe that bodies could be inside…
Lone Sneaker
This random sneaker was found floating in the middle of the sea… The police think it may have something to do with a murder.
Blob Fish
This ugly creature can be found in the deep, deep sea. Nasty.
Crazy Bioluminscence
These lights are actually toxins being released into the ocean. The brighter they are, the deadlier the water is. Looks pretty, though!
In Lake Michigan…
This is scan of a birds-eye view of a mysterious formation at the bottom of Lake Michigan. It weirdly resembles Stonehenge…
Brazilian Boat
A Brazilian boat sank many years ago in this shallow part of the Arctic Ocean. Now, it’s just an eerie tourist attraction.
Visual Movement of Tectonic Plates
Using this area in Iceland, researchers can follow the movements of tectonic plates and even predict how they’re going to move in the future.
Underwater City
This Neolithic underwater structure was found in 1967 off the southern coast of Greece. They were even able to find types of ancient pottery.
Underwater River
At the bottom of the Black Sea, there is a river that is much saltier than the water in the Sea, which makes it separate.
Zhemchug Canyon Bering Sea
This is actually an underwater canyon! You can see it from space, that’s how huge it is.
Bimini Road
Bimini Road is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the Bahamas. It’s an underwater path discovered in the 1930s. Some believe that it’s a path that used to lead to Atlantis…
Doggerland
Doggerland is a huge landmass that went underwater around 8.5k years ago. This landmass actually proves that the UK used to be connected to the rest of Europe but eventually succumbed to flooding.
Ruins of Atlit Yam
The ruins of Atlit Yam can be found off the coast of Israel. It was discovered in 1984 and was one of the largest underwater settlements ever found. There are remains of houses, water wells, humans, and animals.
Black Smokers
This is what happens when seawater meets magma. These hydrothermal vents are hot spring-like, where they shoot out extremely hot water and fluids. Most of them can be found in the Arctic Circle between Norway and Greenland.
Ghost Fleet
It’s kind of hard to tell, this is actually a steering wheel from an ancient ship. It’s been underwater so long that the sea life grew around it. In Chuuk Lagoon, there are tons of these ships and aircrafts around.
The Great Blue Hole
This is a huge hole formed by limestone. Visitors can take deep sea dives down there.
Ancient Village
This was found by divers years ago. It has rectangle houses, dry stone-walled wells, and artifacts made of animal bones!
Icy Shores
Gigantic chunks of ice ended up washing ashore on the coast of Cape Cod, MA. A lot of scientists have said that this is due to global warming melting the ice caps and having them break off and float away.
Creepy Animal
This bizarre marine animal was found by a couple in Scotland. It was about 30-feet long!
Montauk Monsters
Creepy and ugly! Cute!
Sea Slug
These are called sea hares. A bunch of them turned up off the coast of California. It doesn’t look too happy…
Shark Tooth
This is. a fossilized tooth from a prehistoric shark! Obviously, it was massive. This washed up on a beach in North Carolina. Scientists estimate that this shark was about 60-feet-long!
An Oarfish
This oarfish was found on the beach at Santa Catalina Island in California. It was 200 pounds and 15 feet long.
Black Tar
Weird black clumps of tar began to wash ashore on Manhattan Beach, California. Government officials were so concerned that they temporarily closed the beach for some time. They assume it was from an oil leak…
Ambergris
If you’re a fan of Bob’s Burgers, then you know what this is. Ambergris is whale poop that is extremely expensive. It happens when they swallow something like a squid beak and their stomach coats it in this fatty stuff. Then, they poop it out, and humans sell it for $30k for perfume!
Message in a Bottle
This was found on the beach in Galveston, Texas. He got some nice gifts too!
Submerged Plane
A P-38 plane was found in the shallow shore of Wales. Obviously, the ocean got to it…