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A lot of people aren't comfortable swimming in open water.
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I mean, you never know what lives in the water beneath your feet.
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The ocean holds many bizarre deep sea monsters.
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As you dive 140 meters underwater, you might see a megamouth shark.
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Sure, they look scary, but those 50 rows of teeth are for filtering krill.
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The Japanese spider crab is happy to welcome you 300 meters down.
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These massive crustaceans are thought to live to 100 years old and are a Japanese delicacy.
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The frilled shark looks closer to an eel.
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Its needle-like teeth hook squid one half its size and its jaws can gulp them down.
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Even deeper is the Pacific blackdragon.
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It uses its chin barbel as a lure to attract small fish.
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Another 150 meters down, we meet the vampire squid.
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It has bioluminescent organs called photophores that produce flashes of light.
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But it doesn't drink blood.
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It prefers free-floating debris from the surface.
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The deeper you go the more alien things look.
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Goblin sharks are believed to be unchanged for 25 million years, basically making them living fossils.
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They can launch their jaws forward to grab prey.
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Look, here comes the blobfish!
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This thrilling deep-sea fish was voted the world's ugliest animal by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society.
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But its jelly-like skin looks much more natural at 900 meters.
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Down here, we enter the midnight zone where no natural light can reach.
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You might also pass the Tiburonia granrojo, or big red, one of the largest jellyfish in the world.
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The fangtooth has teeth to spare, the largest of any fish.
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It can't even fully close its mouth.
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The barreleye looks upward through its translucent head.
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It recognizes the silhouette of its prey in even the most dim light.
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But it should watch out below for the ghost shark.
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Its body is covered with sensory organs that detect motion in the surrounding water.
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Deeper down are giant isopods, supersized crustaceans.
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These guys are closely related to common pill bugs.
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Down at 2200 meters is one of the biggest residents of the deep.
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At 14 meters long, the colossal squid is the largest known invertebrate.
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Its arms have sharp hooks, which it uses to catch prey and fight sperm whales.
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As we go even deeper, we enter the hadal zone, where life is less common.
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The sea devil is the quintessential deep-sea anglerfish.
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Its bioluminescent lure attracts prey close to its massive jaws.
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But you can still find some extreme life forms as deep as 7,000 meters under the surface.
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Like our friend, the sea spider.
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It sucks up worms from the ocean floor with its proboscis.
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There are potentially thousands more undiscovered creatures swimming around underneath us.
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Who knows what else might be living down there.