Most of the world's oceans are far from established trade and shipping routes and the floor lies in a murky blackness too deep for most submersible vehicles to penetrate. While the United States government along with others have spent countless billions of dollars to bring back rocks from the moon, virtually nothing by way of comparison is spent on the exploration of the deep oceans. To this very day we are still discovering new forms of life that dwell in the oceans depths. Most of those discoveries come by accident however, and not from concerted effort on our part. In fact, as a whole, we as a species seem quiet content not to broaden our knowledge of our own planet's oceans.
Countless questions abound, yet at the core is one single uncertainty.
To continue this deeper, I will delve into some of the more recent finding that have come to life in just this century alone. I'm not talking proto-plankton, but instead large aquatic life that has simply gone undetected. The Mega-Mouth shark. This 20 foot long shark was completely unknown until a dead one washed up on the shores of Hawaii in the 1970. This large fish was considered to have become extinct along with the dinosaurs until fishermen began catching them off the coast of Madagascar in the 1950's.