Something's Been Making Weird Pits in the Seafloor
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- For years, scientists couldn't solve the mystery of strange pits on the floor of the North Sea. Initially they blamed methane seeps, but it seems like the pits were actually made on porpoise.
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So the porpoises are… mass… turbating?
I had to. I regret nothing.
It's a tough job, but someone has to do it.
You did that on porpoise.
yeah - I had to
@@CornerTalker No, you did it for the halibut.
Get yer mind out of the ocean pit, dude.
😂
Surprisingly dolphins literally do that
It's orcas preparing shallow graves for the yacht people ⚓
uhh damn
White Gladis doesn't play around any more and even enlisted porpoises to her army now?
I can't say I condemn what they do.
*Go Gladis, Go!*
Definitely doesn't look like an accident.
Something is doing it on porpoise
"deeper than lake Michigan" wow that must have been a eels worst nightmare having a loonytoon villan pourpise chase after them
Wile E Eel holds a help sign as he peers below him into the abyss
@@universalentropy3610 it's amazing that even comments mentioning that abyss can make me uneasy, that ocean be spooky
Lake Michigan is actually just one meter deep, so this is totally possible. I know bc I went to the beach at Lake Michigan and the water only came up to my waist.😈
@@______IVat the beach, probably. Go out into the lake and you'll find it gets up to 900 feet deep, and averages 275 feet of depth. It also over 300 miles long and 100 miles wide. It isnt one of the "great lakes" for nothing.
@@DrinkyMcBeerwhooosh
I was so afraid that last pun wasn't going to make it in. 😂
If it went missing, that would have shaken my faith in humanatee.
@@OhJustSomeRandomGuy😂
@@OhJustSomeRandomGuy🙄
Me with my ocean pit digging shovel behind my back.
"Yeah it was definitely porpoises"
Now I'm picturing the shovel with a really, really long handle and a regular sized spade on the end.
Yeah its totally not ocean floor extraction by humans.... this video is really dissapointing to me. Ive grown up around the northsea as a kid. Really doubt a mass of relatively big sea animals would be doing such activity without any shred of evidence because of "murky water teehee" heavy eyeroll from me.
Are you rolling your eyes because the video doesn’t fit your narrative??
What @@josicat4789
So you're saying that those underwater pits were made,😎 on porpoise.
*Takes breath in
The combination of the background and her t shirt makes it look like a show from the 90s
their
Right? I glanced up at the vid and totally out of context my eyes noticed the background and what I saw, in that brief instant wasn't sea related at all... lol
what a time to be alive
It does look kind of Saved by the Bell-ish. Like someone inside that restaurant they were always at started streaming about the ocean.
It does look kind of Saved by the Bell-ey. Like someone from that restaurant they were always in suddenly started streaming about the ocean. Or Parker Lewis hasn't changed his clothes in all these years.
I am not saying that it is Godzilla's footsteps, but it definitely is Godzilla's footsteps.
I was so hoping for it ... 😊
UK Godzilla
@@nameless2259 Sips cup of tea, eats crumpet.
My money is on all the lost nukes sending back distorted sonar returns.
Finally someone with intelligence
This same phenomena was happening in the Florida Keys. A friend of mine worked at the Dolphin Research Center in Marathon and told me about it. They didn't know what had caused the dimples there, either. She said they were able of observe one of the dolphins burrowing down into the sand in a rapid corkscrew--like motion. It was going after food just beneath the sand. I don't know if there's a paper documenting this, but she told me this story in about 1990.
At least there still IS marine life in the North Sea....
For the moment give it 10 or 20 years
"We can fix that!"
~BP
Very little compared to decades ago.
There is 100's fold of life in oceans compared to land life.
😊👍
i would never have thought my home town Kiel will be mentioned in a SciShow video.
btw. it's pronounced like the keel, the bottom of a boat or ship.
English speakers are so lazy when it comes to the pronunciation of other languages. You would think that when they are doing research for a video, looking into the proper pronunciation of a name wouldn’t be so difficult.
Named after Richard Kiel? : )
@@mcv2178 I think he is a little bit too young for that, since the origin of the name dates back to at least 1200.
It was probably called Holstenstadt tom Kyle, with the suffix "tom Kyle" meaning next to a fjord or firth, which was shortened down to Kiel over the centuries.
Greetings from Kiel
Excellent. Keep thinking it's the porpoises. Everything is coming together perfectly.
Deep as lake Michigan , holes over 1200 ft deep. .
Oh god, the weirdos are gonna say they're giants footprints. I can hear it now "how can a dolphin do that, they don't even have feet" lmao
Porpoise-made pits as deep as lake Michigan? Somehow, I don't think so
sorry that was me
😂
He who smelt it dealt it.
Hey thats my line!
Get out
My takeaway is im so happy there are so many of these researchers in the world to give us this information
Sorry, it was an accident… I didn’t do it on porpoise.
Porpoises are digging to the depth of lake michigan.
right? dumbest thing I've ever heard given the average depth of the Northsea isnt very deep.
Nah, bruh. It's where the gnomes have been hiding the all beans they steal.
*underpants
@@WeeWeeJumbo socks
I like the new set, but the side cam is awkward.
The side cam like that bald guy 😅
I like the side cam but it needs better lighting. The face shadows make them look spooky.
Agreed.
Agreed. Side cam awkward
The second one wasn't nearly as bad as the first, It looked like they were turning into the camera going "okay now we're going to the side camera" Where's the second one was more of a smash cut
But... you said some of these pits are huge "deep as lake Michigan", right? That's not holes dug by porpoises, I think.
Didn't say huge, just "as deep as"... deep measured from where, though? From the ground, from sea level? Deep as in the same depth as the lake, which could be 1 inch deeper in the sea floor than the surrounding sea floor?
If several generations of animals go to the same spot for years it could easily move a lot of dirt.
I was wondering that myself. It's not like they're down there with dynamite and diggers and even then it would take a hell of a lot of porpoises (and opposable thumbs) to succeed.
Evidence for Sandworms?? The spice must flow!
@@herebecause unfortunately, Dune's (adult) sandworms don't exactly get along with water
@@hayuseen6683Clearly from ground level, from sea level would make no sense at all
Porpoiseful activity.
No, it was just for the hallibut.
@@badeugenecops4741O Cod, just take your likes and begone.
Clearly people need too consider the possibility of Cthulhu's footprints from vacationing in Germany!
3:41 I love what you guys have been doing with the editing and how you're taking advantage of the new set! (Plus Savannah's so cute!)
you need to wait for the bald guy to show up in the new set
"huh, I wonder what the pits are from"
"Oh god damn it don't remind me of the clathrates"
Arrakis worm enters the chat
Deep as Lake Michigan makes this all seem like the first ever observed marine animal mining operation.
Seals also dig for eels. We know this because they regularly get eels stuck in their nose.
😂🥺
As soon as I saw the title, my brain started with “Please let it not be methane pockets.”
Thank you, elusive porpoises. Our GHG budget (once we get around to making a meaningful one) will be easier.
In '70, my shipmate Mahaffey & I (after smoking a joint) stretched out in the carrier's forward flightdeck nets as we sailed at night into the Elbe estuary. We were amazed (yes...and stoned) to see an explosion of phosphorescence just forward of the cutwater below as large schools of big fish scattered before us. Remarkable sight but probably unrelated.
Calling all detectives: It's time to solve the mystery of the underwater crop circles!
That pun tho, got me a chortle, goodjob!!!
Side view had me cackling; I wasn't ready.
I'm old enough to have played X-Com 2: Terror From the Deep, so I know exactly where this is going.
That pun was so bad!(good) it took me a whole minute to recover. 😂
I learned two things from this woman. I learned about why there are pits on the bottoms of the seafloor, and I learned that I’ve been incorrectly saying “pot marks” instead of “pockmarks” for 40 years and no one has corrected me. 😕
Yes, pockmarks, as in diseases like chickenpox.
@@toomanyopinions8353 thanks... I wasn't trying to imply I didn't know the meaning of the word. I was only implying I'd been mispronouncing the word.
More like "porp" marks, from the porpoisefull makers of the pits
that was the cthulhu x godzilla danceoff battle, you guys didn't get the invite?
Nah, it was an evite, and it went to my junk file
“I am a Porph and I’m digging a hole, diggy diggy hole…”
how does a porpoise make a hole deeper than lake michigan? that doesnt make sense
deeper than lake michigan, not bigger than lake michigan
Slowly? Like if its happening because of animal behavior its pretty plausible one or many animals return to the sites many times over years.
It’s in combination with tidal currents. Dig a little trench in a stream on a beach, and watch how the entire trench increases as the water washes through it.
Well done video. Thank you for sharing this interesting possibility :)
Nice video. Informative, to the point, well presented.
I literally said before I watched, “it’s probably porpoises or dolphins digging in the sand”. I guess I could’ve saved them some time and money. 😊
They do that on porpoise
No, it was just for the halibut.
I'm sorry for making all those pits on the sea floor, and I promise not to do it again.
A few seconds in and I already know what it is. It's fun to pay attention to what's going on on Earth.
Now if they don't say that it's methane release, I'm going to be very disappointed
There was a similar mystery in one of the channels in Palau, lucky it was deep enough for people to dive too, what they found was large stingrays feeding in the sand causing large pits.
SciShow never fails to bring the puns. And I am here for it. 😁 And the awesome science...of course.
i was just gunna say, it looks more like barnacles found on sea turtles then the turtle popped up lol
Very well written.
Leviathan sitting at home watching this clip: "cool story."
I say the loch ness monster has escaped.
Man that's really the pits.
I like the standing delivery, the side cam was interesting and not overused. The background was a bit busy, but oh well. She's my favorite presenter after Hank.
if they’re one of your fav presenters you can show it by not misgendering them 🫡
I can't stand this particular presenter. The background is distracting and inappropriate to the channel's direction. SciShow is headed in the wrong direction.
@@winterwatson6437 The commenter said something nice and you went out of your way to lecture them... It was an honest mistake, you're a 🤡
@winterwatson6437 never have I heard a pronoun, just liked their delivery and energy.
Yeah, the background AND the shirt were too much. Keep the fun shirts, and keep the background simple, I think.
Otherwise I agree, though maybe we don't need 2 cameras front on - the hand talking, cut away to diagrams, and occasional tasteful side camera, is engaging enough without the zoom.
I would say a more likely cause is up and down currents. Think of a weak tornado but underwater. You probably get more closer to fault lines because the heat coming from the fault and the cold water mixing.
I was having a bad day. Thanks for the laugh!
Cool new set. Very 90's
It feels strange to hear about my home on a big science show, let alone on UA-cam. And something so interesting to boot
"Researchers from Kiel University looking into methane-related holes in the ground of the North Sea actually caused by marine life" is literally the plot of an extremely popular German novel.
It does not end well.
Which one, Der Schwarm?
i love that shirt!
The world is endlessly fascinating.
We don't know how long these pits have been hunting grounds.
A pit is started by an individual porpoise, his family/clan uses it exclusively for years.
Deep sea currents would carry disturbed over-burden away from the pit, causing the 'pit and mound' formations.
Beavers are well know for altering their living spaces.
Underwater crop circles. Obviously alien in origin . . .
I would expect to see some adaptive morphology to facilitate this behaviour - where is the Spadesnouted Porpoise?
4:45 So, you mean to say the porpoises are tilling the seafloor? Looks like they're entering the agricultural phase of their evolution 😄
It's probably all those golden doubloons we keep hearing about
So porpoises are digging holes that are deeper than like Michigan? Okay I'm going to call cap
3:45 that was perfect 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭
It's Nessie, foraging out from his Loch.
I would love to become a marine biologist. But, unfortunaly, I live in a landlocked country.
Nice shirt
My favorite sci show host! Best voice, speed and diction. My autism likes it very much. She's also cute, but that's irrelevant to her work.
Lmao what?? This mf’er look like Rosie O’Donnell mixed with Pauly Shore
@@dillan6134 U r an @ss
@@dillan6134 ass
Made on porpoise… such a good joke that I was hoping she wasn’t going to use so that I could comment it.
I was going to comment along the lines of "Whales taking sand baths, obviously"... but then you bring in porpoises.
it was you wasnt it. youve been making these pits on the seafloor
The ocean can form any form of evolutionary life, without checks and balances from mankind, with even the express evolutionary purpose of being elusive to mankind.
If you hadn't made an on porpoise joke I would have had to do it myself.
That shirt is rad
Thank you for the “made on porpoise” joke
porpoises can make dents as big as lake michigan or football fields? that’s scary
thats amazing, i totally thought it was methane when i saw the video title.
Godzila has finally returned
Ocean Master? Black Manta? Marine Marauder? Charybdis? The Fisherman? Attuma? CThulhu? The Kraken? Poseidon? Neptune?
I don't know how much deep the lake of Michigan is.
The porpoises dig the pits, then they get filled in with Sylt!
Isso é terrível! Metano é produzido pelo descongelamento do permafrost (junto com as geleiras) e também produz buracos nas terras. Além de piorar o efeito estufa. 😢😮
That was me. My bad.
Methane was my first guess too. Second guess is giant sea worms.
Porpoises surely aren't making holes as deep as Lake Michigan.
New set looks very 90s Nickelodeon
That's just Godzilla going to England for tea.
Probably deep ocean mining, or searching for minerals to mine. This seems like a red herring
you said some pits are as deep as lake Michigan, that ain't a porpoise.
Lake Michigan is 925 feet deep, and there are porpoises that have been seen diving deeper than that to find food.
The pits are supposedly made by the porpoises. No porpoise or group of porpoises is making a 1k foot deep hole. @@bergamt
OR - those pits were the work of an especially determined porpoise in pursuit of a particularly quick and elusive sand eel.
@@bergamt digging 925 feet down come on man lol
@@origamiswami2275 That's not a sand eel, that's a bedrock eel
I hope this gives people respect for how deep lake Michigan is
reminds me of those pufferfish that would build sand structures for mating displays, wonder how they effect bioturbation
I bet they're messing with us on porpoise.
If they're getting hungry enough to do that, that's not a good sign.
Underwater Vampire Covens
Porpoises are giving beavers a run for their money
Nothing is digging 900 ft Deep Holes chasing food. 😂
I am glad they are’t all methane eruptions. Climate scientists would have a field day with that and the last thing we need are more greenhouse gasses escaping into the atmosphere.