Why We Stopped Exploring the Mariana Trench - What's Down There

In the winter of 1918, off the coast of Australia, seasoned lobster fishermen came ashore and refused to return to the most productive grounds they had ever worked. Something in the deep water beyond the continental shelf terrified them so completely that they walked away from their own livelihoods rather than lower another pot. This is the story of what they saw at the edge of the abyss near Port Stephens, and why the account has never been explained away.

We trace the geography of that terrifying shelf edge, the experienced Greek-Australian ""outside crayfish men"" who worked it, and the single word a scientist used to describe the thing they encountered: gigantic. From the crushing black depths to the mysteries the ocean still hides, this documentary explores one of the sea's most chilling unsolved encounters.

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