The Real Reason Why We Don't Explore The Oceans | Unveiled

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The surface of Earth is 71% ocean, but we still know so little about it! In this video, Unveiled takes a closer look at how and why human beings are still so unsure about the deep blue sea. It's as though we have a collective phobia about the ocean, and we just can't shake it off!

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0:00 Intro
0:46 Life on the Ocean
2:38 Fear of the Ocean
4:17 Ocean Legends in Culture
7:20 The Cost of Ocean Exploration
9:36 Conclusions

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[nobody-wkej]

I get it. One if my biggest fears is night diving. Being in the water surrounded by life and darkness is just unsettling.

[TritonsGuard]

I think there is something else as well that makes us fear the ocean, to explore it we have to go against many of our instincts even simple ones.
For example: we as humans are used to having our bodies vertical. When we walk and sit, we keep ourselves vertical. Only during the night do we spend time in a horizontal position, and interestingly this is also the time when we experience some our worst emotions. How many times have we awoken from a troubling dream to quickly sit up? I think the reason for this is that we feel subconsciously that while laying down can't do anything. We can't move quickly, or even look around. Thus being horizontal makes people feel vulnerable.
Unless we are walking through the water we have to change to a horizontal position to move through water, and it can be very hard to overcome our instincts to keep ourselves vertical. While teaching swimming lessons, I noticed a lot of students had a very strong impulse to keep their feet beneath them. They could lay on the surface while I held them there, and even demonstrate proper swimming technique, but when I let go, they would almost instantly put their feet down. Even great swimmers still like to be vertical while in the water as many still swim in a diagonal position (like the dogpaddle), and most would rather tread water then lay on their back. Our fear of deep water may come from this instinct and having no surface for our feet to press against.
I believe this simple thing alone is enough to hinder most of us from exploring the ocean.

[BabyJ]

Imagine you go so deep in the ocean you end up falling out of the sky

[dipakgupta]

We all see the sky and wonder. Yet, unless we are living directly next to an ocean, we remain oblivious to its existence.

[ConnorHazzy]

There’s probably millions of creatures we haven’t discovered yet. From small fish, to probably massive terrifying things in the deepest furthest depths of the water

[shidog]

Imagine going deep down wayyyy down, it's all dark and you're the only light source, you can't see your surroundings deep down around you. You don't know what is circling around you as your light attracted it's attention in such a dark vast place. If that don't scare you, I don't know what else would.

[ice]

There is a PC game called Subnautica that certainly brings the fear of deep water to a whole other level. I just chills playing it.

[kislevcuevas]

I always had so much curiosity of the ocean and its depth. Whiles people find aliens in space they are missing out in the real alins underwater. I feel researching the ocean can really benefit us, after all the seaweed is the lungs of the world not the trees, and also learning how animals survived extreme preassure, and temperatures among other things can help us improve our lives in earth?

[TMason]

Currently watching as I pray for the passengers of the OceanGate 🙏🏾

[solan]

I have a theory...
Us humans search the space in hopes of finding extraterrestrial beings failing to realise that we still have about 60% of the world undiscovered.
What if the key to finding aliens and time travel is hidden in the depth of our wonderful and mystierious planet.
I mean people should focus more on saving and at the same time discovering what lies upon our planet.

[summerbodyathletics]

The reason we don’t explore is because we are not at the top of the food chain once we get in that water.

[ghostshimagaming]

What if the only reason we're exploring space is because they have found something terrifying in our oceans and we're searching for way out of here

[__rmk__]

Let's keep phobia aside for a moment, we all know that we can continue exploring the depths of the earth as well as the space with the help of technological advancements (unmanned sea missions?). So, I don't see any legitimate reason for confining or stopping these explorations, I am sure there will be plenty of awakening surprises from the known and unknown mysteries alongside the darkness as we are in a world of duality.

[DIYprojects]

Honestly, I think there’s an alien race down there and personally they told us land dwellers to not go there

[whitewolfcrowley]

I think we need to stop being scared and just do it, kind of like how we are with space projects.

[McClarinJ]

Archaeology is one field that may benefit greatly from sea floor exploration. Unknown is what level of development humans had achieved on the ice-age coasts of the oceans worldwide. There is much to suggest, due to the great similarity of ancient precision-crafted megalithic structures around the globe, that an ice-age seafaring civilization once existed and perished, leaving only scattered traces that are difficult to date. If such a civilization did exist, the best evidence probably lies submerged along the ice-age sea coast that the rapidly rising global sea level has hidden from us since the sudden end of the Pleistocene.

[ProDiverAdventurer]

As a commercial diver most of my life several factors are why we haven't really been able to study the oceans more than we have. Number 1 reason is the 7 seas are vast/ they are huge! If you have ever been on a vessel in the middle of the Pacific you know what I mean. Maps make the world look small, but when your in the middle of nowhere but sea water for weeks you understand my point. 2nd, conditions, deep exploration is harsh, pressures like no one got business being in and it is supper costly, billionaire costly, sad to say we do not spend lots of money unless there is some long term gain in it. If a wealthy individual gets involved to explore it's usually ego or to find something of extreme interest. Lastly fear, humans do not like to be eaten by animals with big teeth, crushed by extreme painful crushing implosion at depth or die in a freakishly gas escaping rush out of every orffice of your body in extreme bends or pure fear of the dark and unknown. The stuff Hollywood has been scaring you with since you were a kid in movies. Rare that any of these things will happen when proper protocol in diving are followed but most dives are in less than 120 feet and anything beyond that is left to professionals usually for money and increased risk for sme gain. Not just for knowledge sake.

[herodaresfire]

Not just fear of the water itself, but fear of sea monsters.

[corvettesforever]

The Real Reason is that there's an underlying 'fear factor' exploring the unknown, whether it be in outer space or the oceans.

[conradb]

The quicker we get involved in the secrets of, and exploring the oceans
… The quicker we will destroy the ocean as we are currently doing to the earths surface.