9 'Amazing Facts' That Are Totally Untrue
2. 95% Of The World's Oceans Are Unmapped/Unexplored
We have mapped the ocean. Look, here's a map.
We haven't mapped it in the same detail as, say, Rotherham town centre, but with an average resolution of around 20 to 50 km, it's not bad.
As for "unexplored", yes, it's true that we haven't clapped human eyes on the vast majority of the deep ocean, but that doesn't mean that we don't know anything about it. We know temperatures, depths, geography, salinity, currents, PH and plenty more - and pretty much everywhere up to 180 metres has been well covered.
Put all of this together and we've got a very good idea of not only what the ocean looks like, but the kinds of creatures that could survive in its many depths - even if we haven't taken selfies with them yet.
That said, there might still be something big down there, speaking of which...