Exploring Unique Underwater Discoveries

of it in the 1990s, I might agree it's one of a handful of people to ever see it in person.

Without a doubt, one of the most amazing things that I have ever seen in the bottom of the ocean.

It was while filming for Blue Planets in the Gulf of Mexico. I noticed there's something out in the

distance, couldn't tell exactly what, but it looked like a dark band, and as we approached it the dark

band became a donut. I saw this donut that was black in the center. What the heck is that? And so

as we get closer and closer to it, I noticed that the black band had what appeared to be kind of

steam over it, and then I looked and there was water lapping against the shoreline. This band

was a ring of mussels, and inside the ring of mussels was a lake. And it's like, wait a minute,

I'm already underwater. We went out over the water in this lake and tried to descend in it and

bounced off. It was so super saline and dense that the submarine couldn't go down in it.