Ocean Goth

Beneath the Mackinac Bridge lies the Straits of Mackinac, a region notorious for its numerous shipwrecks. The Eber Ward was designed and constructed for the Detroit and Lake Superior Line, specializing in the transportation of package and bulk cargo. Following her departure from winter quarters in Chicago, she loaded a cargo of corn in Milwaukee, before embarking on a voyage to Port Huron. Tragically, the Eber Ward collided with a substantial ice chunk while traversing the Straits on April 20th, 1909, ultimately leading to her sinking and the loss of five crew members.

Sound on to hear the water running through pebbles

This spectacular squid is the robust clubhook squid, Onykia robusta, one of the largest species of squid in the ocean. This juvenile measured about 60 centimeters (two feet) long, but adults can grow to over three meters (almost 10 feet). 🦑💫⁠ ⁠ Large body size has many benefits, including protection from predators. But growing big is a challenge, particularly for squid. By virtue of their molluscan heritage, squids possess a set of traits—including high energy demand, energetically costly locomotion, and low blood-oxygen-carrying capacity—that presumably restrict most species to smaller adult body sizes. But clearly, there are exceptions.⁠ ⁠ The deep sea remains one of Earth’s least explored habitats, and extraordinary animals like the robust clubhook squid remind us how much there is still to discover. Questions about how and why some deep-sea species grow to such impressive sizes continue to inspire research, fueling new discoveries about life in the ocean’s depths.⁠

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

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Cross sea is an unusual, rare but nevertheless very dangerous wave pattern. It occurs when waves from different directions meet (cross) each other. The overlapping of these wave systems creates a chessboard-like pattern, which on the one hand has an enormous suction and the waves, created by the overlapping, can suddenly become 10 metres and more. This pattern is able to drown swimmers in shallow coastal areas and sink ships in deeper areas.

Photographer: Viktor Peryakin

Planet Earth (2006) Season 01 Episode 11 “Ocean Deep” Directed by Alastair Fothergill

Basically, get cr-eel-ative! (these are not my best work)

A Norway lobster passes a sea pen. Filmed in Norway. From Wild Skagerrak (2016).

nautiluslive: Our #CorpsofExploration encountered this #BigfinSquid (genus Magnapinna) over 5,100 meters deep while exploring the abyssal plain in the waters of the #CookIslands. [source]

Also when you die in these lakes, the very cold, oxygen-poor conditions at the bottom preserves you perfectly for all eternity. You will not rot and nothing will eat you. You will exist for as long as the Great Lakes do. Many shipwrecks still have the crew on board. Be Aware.

be aware!

you could drown an entire small country in this thing

Jellyfish mosaic tile piece, Havana, Cuba. From Great Houses of Havana.