Ocean X team returns from their first expedition investigating the mysterious object they discovered in the Baltic Sea.
The expedition was supposed to provide answers, but instead yielded yet more questions.
It has also broadened the minds of those involved!
[Peter Lindberg, Treasure Hunter]:
"We have experienced things that I really couldn't imagine and I have been the team's biggest skeptic regarding these different kind of theories. I was kind of prepared just to find a stone or cliff or outcrop or pile of mud but it was nothing like that, so for me it has been a missing experience I must say."
The team were completely dwarfed by the mysterious object, which is about 60 meters in diameter and lying almost 80 meters down on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
There are visible formations on top of the object, which are set at a 90 degree angle and look like passageways or walls, as well as something that looks like it could be a staircase.
The divers also found a hole about 25 centimeters in diameter, though it is not yet known where it leads.
In addition, they found circular forms of small rocks that appear to have been placed like a pearl necklace.
Geologists who follow their work haven´t been able to explain what it is yet.
Alongside the mystery, there were also many difficulties.
The most serious was the temperature of the water.
[Stefan Hogeborn, Professional Diver]:
"We looked at our dive computer, the deep sea diver computer, and it said minus one degree that's pretty cold for a diver it should really be impossible to have that cold water it actually turns into ice at zero degrees but that could be explained by the movement of the water."
Also, some strange phenomenon occurred...
A main objective of the dive was to film the object, and yet the camera stopped working when they approached the object.
[Stefan Hogerborn, Professional Diver]:
"Why isn't anything working, anything electric out there and the satellite phone as well stopped working when we were above the object and then we got away about 200 meters and it turned on again and when we got back over the object it didn't work so that's kind of strange as well."
Mr Hogerborn says he has never experienced anything like this during his 20 years as a professional diver.
Dennis Åsberg of the Ocean X team is one hundred percent sure after the first expedition that they have found something quite unusual.
[Dennis Åsberg, Treasure Hunter]:
"I am one hundred percent convinced and confident that we have found something that is very, very, very unique. Then if it is a meteorite or an asteroid or a volcano or a base from, say, a U-boat from the Cold War which has manufactured and placed there, yes, or if it's a UFO, well honestly it has to be something."
Lab results will be forthcoming, and a second expedition is already planned to depart in two weeks.
Ocean X team hope that a geology specialist will join the next expedition.
One year ago, Swedish treasure hunters from Ocean Explorer, a diving company discovered what some thought to be an extraterrestrial spaceship buried deep underwater in the Baltic Sea. No-one could say with certainty anything about the nature of the object, which was also the reason why a new expedition had to be launched.
On June, 7, this year, Ocean Explorer sent down divers in order to investigate the circle-shaped object in more detail.
They were amazed at what they found. There is definitely something unusual hiding at the seabed.
"We were there to find answers, but only got even more questions," says Stefan Hogeborn, 47, one of the divers from Ocean X Team, who investigated the circle on the bottom of the Baltic.
Some of Sweden's leading researchers in marine archeology have seen the first pictures from the circle-shaped object that was taken with the so-called sonar, a scanner tool, but no-one could answer what the pictures depicted.
First they thought it was just stone or a rock cliff, but after further observations the object appeared more as a huge mushroom, rising 3-4 meters/10-13 feet from the seabed, with rounded sides and rugged edges. The object had an egg shaped hole leading into it from the top, as an opening.
On top of the object they also found strange stone circle formations, almost looking like small fireplaces.
The stones were covered in something resembling soot.
"It looks almost like a pearl necklace or that someone has tried to make a fireplace with an inch-sized rocks on the ocean floor," says Stefan Hogeborn
"When we had swum across the object, we get to the weird thing. It was almost like someone has pinched the mountain at the edge, as if you have breathed together two molds, and it sticks out between stone formers, continues Stefan Hogeborn.
Ocean Explorer divers discovered strange stone circle formations.
"It looks almost like a pearl necklace or that someone has tried to make a fireplace," said one of the divers. Image credit: Ocean Explorer
"During my 20-year diving career, including 6000 dives, I have never seen anything like this. Normally stones don't burn. I can't explain what we saw, and I went down there to answer questions, but I came up with even more questions ", says Stefan Hogeborn.
The path to the object itself can be described as a runway or a downhill path that is flattened at the seabed with the object at the end of it.
"First we thought this was only stone, but this is something else. And since no volcanic activity has ever been reported in the Baltic Sea the find becomes even stranger. As laymen we can only speculate how this is made by nature, but this is the strangest thing I have ever experienced as a professional diver", continues Peter Lindberg, one of the founder Ocean X Team.
Martin Jakobsson, a Professor of marine geology and geophysics at the University of Stockholm, has seen an image taken by the divers and he thinks it is probably some kind of sandstone.
The samples from the discovery of the Baltic Sea have been sent for analysis.
"Since we did not get any answers to the questions we asked ourselves, we have given the material to experts who can investigate the pieces we brought up," says Stefan Hogeborn.
The mystery of the object resting of the baltic Sea remains unsolved.
