aquapix/Shutterstock 3 / 13 A military battleship fleet Hundreds of military warships, aircraft, and submarines were lost during World War II during Operation Hailstone, a surprise strike on Japan's Imperial Fleet. Over the course of two grueling days in 1944, the trucks sunk off the coast of the Caroline Islands in the South Pacific. The catastrophe, known as Japan's Pearl Harbor, killed hundreds of troops, and the debris remained uncovered until the late 1960s, when the great Jacques Cousteau studied it. Today, it is known as Truk Lagoon, and it is merely one of the world's most unusual tourist destinations. Fer Gregory/Shutterstock 4 / 13 A possible UFO There are two types of individuals in the world: those who think we have been visited by aliens and those who do not. People in the first group are more likely to believe that an item discovered by Swedish divers on the seabed of the Baltic Sea in 2014 originated from space; after all, it was claimed to be âUFO-shaped.â Skeptics and the majority of experts, however, think the disc-like object is nothing more than a rock of unknown origin or maybe a meteor.
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Taylor is also the sculptor behind the world's biggest underwater statue, Ocean Atlas, which is located off the coast of New Providence in the Bahamas. While some may find these groupings of sculptures inspirational, people who suffer from thalassophobia will be wary of coming face to face with a submerged monument. If you encounter the above family sculptures while snorkeling, we guarantee you won't be eager to go back into the water.
16th "My father used to do a lot of diving in Minnesota lakes. After a certain depth, a layer of silt sits flat and shuts off the little light that gets to it. My father went diving into this one hole that had these stairs going into a cavern that created a pretty frightening looking staircase to nowhere. As a result, it has earned the moniker "The Stairway to Hell.""
The lake near my house was man-made, but instead of drowning a plain or clear-cut forest, they just drowned a thick area of forests around the river, trees, and whatever else was there. This, along with the extremely unpredictable terrain, has resulted in hundreds of drownings...and additional fatalities as a result of unexpected drop offs or individuals being stranded underwater. The army corps of engineers refuses to dive in the lake because it is too risky, implying that the majority of the remains are still down there someplace. There are also local stories that structures and residences, long ago submerged and forgotten, may be found amid the forest trees.
