Ocean Discovery Leaves Internet Stunned as Old Tape Plays Perfectly

Summary:

• The majority of ocean floor discoveries are rusted or destroyed, but one diver found a playable cassette tape.

• A Reddit user and experienced diver found a 1960s cassette tape buried in the ocean floor.

• Despite low expectations, the diver was shocked to hear clear music from the cassette tape found underwater.

The majority of what is retrieved at the ocean floor is torn rusted or completely killed. The entire internet was left speechless by what was pulled up by one diver last summer. One of the rusty seaweed-crusted cassettes discovered in the 60ies was cleaned, and the tapeworm nest was removed and heard. The music was perfectly audible. This story sounded really impossible in the world where phones fail to make calls in the rain.

Meet Diver

The discoverer is a Reddit user who had become connected to the ocean since he was seven years old and worked in a dive shop since sixteen years old.

Routine Day

He had just an ordinary summer working day and saw something strange in the water that appeared to be out of place. He even did not know that bringing it closer would be one of his greatest revelations.

The Cassette

He had found a 1960s audio cassette tape lying in the ocean floor over a couple of decades. The shell was much worn and the bolts quite rusted but there was something to lead him to the further inquiry.

Opening It

He opened his rusted shell very carefully, and left it unbroken. There was all that was to be met with in years below water, sand seaweed and tapeworm nest. There was no indication that the tape was in any playable shape.

Low Expectations

Before hitting the play button he was well prepared to hear complete silence or unlistenable distortion. Cassettes are universally not strong. The magnetic strip in the inside should have been ruined at least due to decades of saltwater pressure and sand through any reasonable scientific imagination.

Pure Shock

The melodies came through. Then the singing. He talked about the fact that he spent some time in complete shock when listening to music played on a very clear tape that had been submerged in difficulty on the ocean floor. He uploaded his response and the internet went mad.

His Words

The diver had only written – cassettes tapes are really beautiful. That emotional quote by a person who had a sixty year old ocean tape in his/her heart hit a major chord with the millions of people that had been raised in the days of the analog music.

Why Survived

But how come that a cassette tape can survive decades in sea water and after this it still plays flawlessly? There is no definite response, no response, as a matter of fact, that makes this story all the more utterly gripping.

Goes Viral

The post went viral on Reddit and social media sites all the way to Instagram where it was severely reposted. The nostalgia over underwater discoveries and the real scientific astonishment had fused into the very type of writing the internet so obviously finds impossible to resist.