Why the Deep Sea Frightens Us

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When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. An exploration of the leviathans that swim in the deep sea, and why the human mind fears the uncharted depths. --- Thumbnail Art Credit: Matt Millard - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Qo9JB Miller's art based on a concept by Denis Loebner - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/q9ND2 SCP-3000 Short Film Credit: ForlornFoundry - https://www.youtube.com/@ForlornFoundry The Colossal Eel Credit: 3D Print Guy - https://www.youtube.com/@3DPrintGuy The term ‘Thalassophobia’ means ‘An intense fear of deep water.’ It is one of the most primal and understandable phobias — for the dark abyss has always been a birthplace of monsters. Lurking below the waves are not only bizarre species known to science — but a vast multitude of imagined leviathans. Something about the fathomless void floods the human mind with visions of nightmarish creatures, which have scared and fascinated us since we first gazed into the deep. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll dive into depths both real and imagined, and discover what terrors lurk within the heart of the sea... 0:00 The Fathomless Deep 0:50 Iron Lung 3:53 Abyssus Theory 5:41 Realm of Monsters 7:44 Teeming Seas 11:31 Megalodons and Mermaids 14:04 Uncharted Waters 16:58 The Unending Serpent 18:55 One Last Breath Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners. Media Shown: Iron Lung, Subnautica, Subnautica: Below Zero, The Meg, Underwater, Mermaids: The Body Found, Abzû, Beyond Blue, In Other Waters, Water Womb World, The Abyss, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, It Came from Beneath the Sea, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, SCP-3000 The Unending Serpent (ForlornFoundry), SCP-3000: The Colossal Eel (3D Print Guy) Sources: Thalassophobia Definition by Marney A. White: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/thalassophobia Abyssus Theory, Article by Thomas R Anderson, Tony Rice: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17097733/ History of the Bathysphere, Article by William Firebrace: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/spherical-descent-on-the-bathysphere-and-voyages-into-the-abyss/ History of the so-called 'Bloop:' https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bloop.html Deep Sea Gigantism, Article by James MacDonald: https://daily.jstor.org/why-deep-sea-creatures-get-weirdly-giant/ ♫ Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio: Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witching Hour, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian ♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): Beauty Flow Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ #CuriousArchive #Worldbuilding