We Found a Hidden World in the Ocean. We're Already Mining It.

Four kilometers down, in total darkness, there is a plain bigger than the United States, and nothing has touched it in millions of years. #drownedearth #deepsea #oceandocumentary #deepocean It is paved with little black rocks, and around every single one of them, there is life. You'd expect the deepest, darkest dead zone on the planet to be, well, dead. CHAPTERS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 00:00 A world bigger than America, 4km down 02:05 The most untouched place on Earth 04:09 5,000 animals, most with no name 06:14 The machine that eats the seafloor 08:20 40 years later: nothing healed 10:26 Why we're about to do it anyway WATCH NEXT (more drowned places): → The Bermuda Triangle Really Does Make Things Vanish    / @drownedearth1   → We Found a Sea Giant, Then Ate It to Extinction in 27 Years    / @drownedearth1   🔔 SUBSCRIBE:    / @drownedearth1