The Craziest Images Taken By Submarines

1. Lake Michigans very own Stonehenge

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This one might not be found at the bottom of the ocean, but found at the bottom of Lake Michigan which seems to resemble Stonehenge. Next to this formation is a huge boulder that carries an ancient engraving of a mastodon which is weirdly directly next to a pile of car and boat skeletons. Very strange!

2. MS Zenobia

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The MS Zenobia was a 10,000 ton ferry which sank in 1980 just off the coast of Larnaca Bay in Cyprus. Submarines found this sunken ferry, along with it's hundreds of lorries and cars which are dotted around the bottom of the sea.

3. The Lost City of Heracleion

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This amazing underwater city was discovered by great archaeologist Franck Goddio. After searching for four years, he finally found the ancient Egyptian city that had gone unfound for thousands of years. For archeologists, this was a huge discovery!

4. Ancient Shipwreck

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This ancient merchant vessel sunk in the Mediterranean Sea over 3,000 years ago and left behind many beautiful pieces which were found at the bottom of the sea. Gold chalices, necklaces, rings and plates were all amongst some of the things found at the bottom of the sea.

5. The Ghost Fleet

 

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in 1944, allied powers bombed Chuuk Lagoon, destroying over 300 aircraft and boats. Twenty years later, divers investigated the site finding vehicles and skeletons trapped inside. This eerie discovery was quite a sad find more than anything.

6. F4U Corsair

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Luckily for this discovery, no one was harmed or killed. This aircraft was found at the bottom of the sea after it crashed due to fuel shortage. These fighter jets were used in WWII and the Korean War and 75 years after crashing, this one particular fight jet was found teeming with sea creatures.

7. Manganese Balls

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There are many strange occurrence and natural phenomenas that happen in the ocean that no one really knows or understand why. Manganese balls are found on the ocean floor, some are just a few millimetres and some grow to the size of grapefruits! Jheeeez!

8. SS President Collidge

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This ship sank in the Pacific Ocean when it hit underwater mines - before then it had been used during the war as a beautiful vacationers ship but the wreckage it had left behind was pretty haunting when found at the bottom of the sea floor.

9. The Underwater River

 

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This fascinating underwater find is called the Cenote Angelita Cave and is only accessible to master divers. Found ninety feet down, cave divers found this river with plants and trees and 'riverbanks'. However, it is all but an illusion, its just cloudy hydrogen sulfide mixed with saltwater and freshwater together.

10. Anglerfish

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This fish is found thousands of feet deep in the ocean, in the darkest depths you can imagine. It can grow up to three meters long...let that one just sink in a minute. And female Anglerfish are the ones who have that large dangly bulb above their foreheads.

11. Multimillion pounds worth of Emeralds

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Now, I'm sure anyone would be happy to come across an Emerald let alone millions of pounds worth. A part time diver from Key West, in Florida found the gems but it was found that the FBI had already discovered some of the gems & no one could prove when they dated back from.

12. The Antikythera Mechanism (Ancient Greek Computer)

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This weird contraption was found in the early 1900s by Greek divers which is thought to be an ancient analog computer. WTF is an ancient Greek computer you ask? Well, it was used to predict the movement of the stars and moon and was estimated to date back to between 205 and 100 BCE. Jheeeez!

13. Silver Bars from WWII

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When the SS Gaisoppa was sunk in 1941, so was thousands of silver bars - 60 million dollars worth of treasure to be exact! When discovered, marine divers returned the silver to the royal mint so that it could be transformed & placed into a museum in memory of all that were lost in the war.

14. Sand Patterns

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These beautiful sand patterns weren't created by aliens, but a pufferfish and they were discovered on the bottom of the Japanese sea in 1995. Why are the created you ask? Well a male puffer fish creates these designs so lure female puffer fish in to fertilise their eggs Pretty smart ey!

15. SS Thistlegorm

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After being bombed down in the Red Sea, this British Merchant Navy ship was found at the bottom of the red sea. Creepy! Divers found the wreckage which also included motorcycles, cars and other very interesting pieces from history on this ship. Weird!

16. Blackbeard's Cannons

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The ship known as 'Blackbeard' crashed the Queen Anne's Revenge somewhere off the coast of North Carolina and when it was found, there was also a load of other stuff that came up with the wreckage. Cannons were the heaviest of the 'bits' weighing in a 3,000 pounds. WOW!

17. Christmas Tree Worm

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One of the strangest yet neatest creatures discovered at the bottom of the Phillipino and Australian seas. Scientist aren't fully sure what these creatures are but their bright and vibrant look make them all the more interesting.

18. Yonaguni Monument

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Just off the coast of Yonaguni Island, Japan, divers and scientists found this alien like rock formation that looked like it had been constructed millions of years ago. Scientists debate whether it is a result of earthquakes and erosion or whether it's an undiscovered underwater city.

19. 19th Century Shipwreck

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Now this creepy underwater ship looks like something straight out of Pirates of the Caribbean. It dates back to the 19th century but still to this day, divers and scientists do not have a clue where it came from and who it belonged to!

20. The Russian Surveillance Vessel

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Travel to the bottom of the Red Sea and you'll find this Russian surveillance ship which sunk in 1982. "The Kanka" wreck lies at the Zabargad Island in 24 meters of water and can sometimes break the surface during very low tide. The Ship struck the reef head before meeting it's end.

21. The 1,200 year old face at the bottom of the sea

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In 2001, whilst searching for a French Warship, a face was discovered in the sand at the bottom of the sea. With a little help from modern technologies, the face was pulled from the water and identified as a huge statue of King Ptolemy III, grandson to Alexander the Great.

22. A Unicorn

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A unicorn statue was found at the bottom of the Egyptian Sea in the 90s. For a while no one was sure where it had come from and why it was there until it was revealed to be part of the Lost City of Heracleion.

23. Tanks

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Reminders of past wars can be found in all corners of the seas and oceans. Deep sea divers found these powerful WWI tanks at the bottom of the ocean years after the war ended with eerie memories of the war inside of the tanks.

24. Gas masks

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Millions of gas masks were made during both World Wars, however, deep sea divers still occasionally come across these war relics like these. Gas masks are just some of the war relics that are floating around the bottom of a seas all these years later.

25. A Giant Isopod

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This "giant" creature can grow up to 2.5 feet and is actually a form of crustacean related to the woodlouse! Eurgh! Isopods live on land and both sea and fresh water - giant Isopods are known as the clean up crew of the sea, living of dead animals, helping keep the ocean clean.

26. Antarctic Shipwreck

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The Endurance sank in 1915 after being crushed by ice. The ship carried Ernest Shackleton was discovered 10,000 feet below the surface of the Weddel Sea, 106 years after sinking. A human skull and femur was found lying just off the shore, making it the oldest human remains ever found in Antarctica.

27. Apollo 11 Rockets

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The enormous and powerful engines from Apollo 11s rockets were found 14,000 at the bottom of the ocean 40 years after Americas successful trip to the moon. This piece of history can now be viewed at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington today.

28. Sweepstakes

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The Sweepstakes hit a rock near Cove Island in 1985 and was found beyond repair. Still almost perfectly intact, the hull of the ship can be seen perfectly through clear waters where glass bottom tour boats visit the site regularly during summer season.

29. USS Oriskany

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The USS Oriskany, which was known as the Mighty-O, served in the Korea and Vietnam war and was sunk in May 2006 under a pilot program to convert vessels into artificial reefs! Pretty cool really! It's the largest vessel ever sunk to make a reef.

30. Shoes found from the Titanic wreck

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This list wouldn't be complete without it's most famous sea floor wreckage. Back in the early 19th century when the most famous ship ship of all time met it's sad ending, it was left at the bottom of the sea floor

31. Statue of Jesus

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This might seem like a statue that's broken away from land and ended up sinking to the bottom of the lake, but it was actually placed there as a memorial to divers who have passed. The statue of Jesus Christ made from white marble was originally made in 1956 in Italy.

32. The craziest things found at the bottom of lakes: the Foss Lake bodies

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Two vintage cars long since rusted were found at the bottom of Foss Lake in Oklahoma, which then revealed to have six dead bodies inside them. The two cars were said to belong to two different groups of people who went missing a year apart from each other, who died from accidental drowning.

33. A prosthetic leg

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At first glance, the people who discovered this leg poking out of the water feared the worst in thinking it could be a dead body - it turned out to be a prosthetic leg, which had been lost by a man who had been out fishing on a trip. The leg actually got returned to him for a reward!

34. 200 skeletons

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Finding one skeleton in a lake would be bad enough, but finding 200 of them? That's exactly what happened near a remote lake in the Himalayan mountains, at first believed to be the remains of Japanese soldiers, but later discovered to be the bones of Indian tribesmen.

35. Fake skeletons in lawn chairs

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Sure, now we know they're fake - but the poor people who first discovered them certainly didn't! A man snorkeling came across this discovery of two human skeletons sat in lawn chairs, and after reporting it to the police, it turned out the skeletons were a prank made from plastic!

36. The mysterious Baltic Sea object

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Found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, this mysterious object was found via sonar by a team of people who claimed that it had been built with structures on it that couldn't have been made naturally. Unsurprisingly, the object has now become the subject of a conspiracy theory or two...

37. The submerged plane

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At the bottom of Lake Norman in North Carolina there was found a mysterious plane, mainly due to the fact that there had been no reported crashes in the area. Where did it come from? Not only that, divers didn't find any bodies on board. The mystery was later solved when a woman reported she'd been looking for her plane after the locking gear hadn't been applied...

38. Nuclear artifacts from the Nazis

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The Norweigan ferry, Hydro, was sunk by allied forces back in 1944, and the Hydro was reportedly carrying equipment for the secret atomic bomb project the Nazis were working on. The sunken ferry was later found to have heavy water on board, which is a unique form of water needed for nuclear power/weapons.

39. Cone-shaped monument

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Beneath the Sea of Galilee in Israel, a group of researchers ended up finding a mysterious cone-shaped monument which was around 39 feet high and had an estimated weight of 60,000 tons. Further research suggested such a structure was built on land, from the time of the early Bronze Age.

40. 'Devil' creature

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If there's one thing you don't want to find at the bottom of the lake, it's a weird devil creature... Yet under the Lake Labynkyr in Russia, there was found the remains of a huge creature that some believed could be the 'devil' that locals started to report sightings of back in the 19th century... It was never proven, though.

41. World War II bomb

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... A live one! Navy divers found an active World War II bomb, weighing around 100 pounds, back in the later 80s, and nobody understands how it ever ended up there. Some believed the bomb might have been dropped in the lake by a warplane from the nearby airfield.

42. A submerged ghost town

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Bluffton was a small town in Texas that became completely submerged under the lake - that was until a dry season in the state in 2011 unearthed this mysterious ghost town that had been hiding beneath the water! It was revealed to have tombstones, concreate foundations and old relics!

43. The body of Tom Sublett (and his mysterious death)

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The dead body of a Georgian country commissioner was found floating in the water of the Frederica River, after he'd been reported missing by his wife. The case became strange when it was discovered his hands were tied up and a gunshot wound to his head, prompting a homicide investigation.

44. Locomotive steam engine

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The wreckage of the Canadian Pacific Railroad locomotive engine 694 was discovered at the bottom of Lake Superior. But how did the wreckage get there? In a tragic event, a rockslide had derailed the train and pushed it off the sea cliffs into the water far below.

45. A collection of Nash Automobiles

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Back in the 1920s, there was a ship carrying a huge collection of Nash cars worth around 3.8 million dollars by today's standards. The ship was involved in a wreck and completely sank, taking the collection of cars with it. The shipwreck was found in the depths of Lake Michigan.

46. An ancient hunting location

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Found at the bottom of Lake Huron was the remains of what looked to be an ancient hunting site created from rock formations. It's believed this hunting location goes back thousands of years, and would have been used for hunters trapping the animals between the stone pathways.

47. World War II fighter planes

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Not just any ol' World War II fighter planes, but very rare ones at that. Around 75 of an extremely rare type of fighter plane are actually at the bottom of Lake Michigan: the Douglas Dauntless World War II fighter plane, with only around 14 of them left in the world (when not on the bottom of the lake!).

48. German U-Boat

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Another one for Lake Michigan, which seems to be getting a little crowded on the bottom: a German UC-97 submarine was shot at, and sank, by a US Navy gunboat in 1921, but the bigger mystery for a lot of people is what a German U-Boat was doing there in the first place... (it was actually already seized by the US and then used as target practice in the lake!).

49. The preserved body of Old Whitey

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The temperatures of the Great Lakes keep everything very well preserved - including bodies. When the USS Kamloops sunk, it took down with it its engine room steward, who became perfectly preserved, turned white and nicknamed... yep, Old Whitey. He's still there, to be seen by divers who explore the sunken boat.

50. A whole vacation house!

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Some people might opt for an underwater escape as a vacation, but not the whole house sunk to the bottom. When Lake Superior froze over, a man tried to move his whole house over the top of the ice - and it worked, until the ice broke around three miles across. The house sunk to the bottom!