Scientists SHOCKED as Southern California Was Hiding 27,000+ Objects Beneath the Coast

Something disturbing was found beneath the ocean between Los Angeles and Catalina Island.

Sonar surveys have detected more than 27,000 barrel-like objects scattered across the seafloor, while researchers have also found DDT-related chemicals in sediments from a region shaped by decades of industrial dumping. But the barrels are only one layer of what is hidden below Southern California.

In this DiscoverTube investigation, we explore a submerged landscape filled with toxic sediment, active offshore faults, submarine canyons, shipwrecks and drowned Ice Age coastlines that once extended far beyond today’s beaches.

Around 20,000 years ago, sea level stood roughly 400 feet lower, exposing land now buried beneath the Pacific. The northern Channel Islands were once connected as a much larger island known as Santarosae, while early coastal communities lived along shorelines that are now underwater.

Using evidence from NOAA, USGS, EPA, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and university researchers, scientists are combining sonar, sediment cores, chemical analysis and remotely operated vehicles to reconstruct what happened beneath one of America’s most heavily populated coastlines.

And large parts of this underwater region still have not been mapped closely enough to reveal every buried object, fault or ancient landscape.

So what else could still be waiting beneath Southern California?

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