People say they’ll ‘never go in ocean again’ after man dropped food off oil rig
The ocean can be a truly beautiful place, but one video has made viewers swear off ever going for a paddle again.
More than 70% of Earth's surface is made up of the watery depths, and according to the NOAA Ocean Exploration records we've only explored 5% of it, and mapped another 20-27% by sonar.
That leaves a lot of ground uncovered, and we already know there are some weird and wonderful creatures that lurk below the surface of the sea.
Remember the weirdly adorable angler fish that surfaced and broke everyone's heart? There's plenty more where that came from, just bigger and scarier.
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If you didn't have thalassophobia before (the fancy name for an intense fear of deep bodies of water) then you might do after this.
One man filmed himself throwing food off an oil rig, and the result is chaos.
An oil rig worker films through the metal grid he is stood on high above the sea.
Let's just say he's putting a lot of trust in that grate to hold him in place - working on an oil rig is not for the weak.
In a video shared on Reddit, the man drops some of his lunch through the walkway floor, and films it falling all the way down to the water.
As this is the internet, people in the comments were also just as fixated on trying to figure out what the food item was that he drops into the ocean - like a lunch-themed Titanic necklace.
Some thought it was a flapjack, others a cookie, while one rogue commenter guessed it was a chicken nugget.
Before the mystery leftovers could even hit the water, the sea suddenly starts churning as hundreds of fish (and god knows what else) begin to thrash around in an attempt to secure the food.
They all dart over to where the cookie/flapjack/nugget landed, and whatever it was disappears in a matter of seconds.
One commenter swore: "Well, I’m never swimming outside a pool ever again."
Another joked: "Note to self: don't fall off an oil rig."
"Bro singlehandedly caused an all-out war down there,” observed another, while one person was not about to trust whoever assembled that precarious platform: "That metal floor is the difference between you living another day or turning into fish food."
One simply said: "I'm not going into that water."
Other commenters said that the reason there were so many fish lurking was because they have learned oil rigs are a prime spot for scraps as well as plants growing and other marine life.
However, plenty of fish probably also means plenty of sharks.
This commenter succinctly put it: "Food drops, pool of fish emerge. Pool of fish emerge, sharks emerge."
No thank you.
Jen Thomas