Hey everybody, Dylan here.

So I do not know how to scuba dive, I've never taken the lessons.

But a few months ago, I got to go to Tarpen Springs, Florida, and get to sort of play at

being a professional sponge diver for a day.

I didn't have to do a real scuba.

I was on a kind of oxygen line so that I could go underwater and walk around on the ocean

floor, but not have to be fully certified.

Anyway, it was a crazy experience.

I got to put on this original copper 150 pound dive suit.

I was kind of like this astronaut Frankenstein being in slow and heavy walking on the bottom

of the ocean.

I was only 12 feet underwater.

But anyway, it was just this incredible experience.

And being there deep under the water was like stepping into another universe.

It was filled with life and mysterious creatures and things growing, and it was just completely

and totally magical.

And it got me thinking about all of the strange incredible wonders that are found underneath

the oceans at the bottom of lakes.

And so today, we're joined by the Atlas Obscura Places editors Jonathan Carey and Michelle

Cassidy, who are choosing two stories to tell us that both take place deep underwater.

Next is Jonathan Carey, who's going to take us to the sunken crosses of Malpeque.

Get ready and dive down deep with us under the blue sea of La Palma, Spain.

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