The World's Largest Hidden Waterfall

The Ocean Has a Hidden Waterfall Bigger Than Anything on Earth Imagine a waterfall

so enormous that it makes Niagara, Victoria Falls, and every other waterfall on the

planet look like dripping faucets. Now imagine that it’s completely invisible—because

it’s happening deep under the ocean. This real phenomenon, called the Denmark Strait Cataract,

lies between Greenland and Iceland, where two massive bodies of water collide.

Warm, salty water from the Gulf Stream slides northward and suddenly meets

a wall of frigid Arctic water. Since cold water is heavier, it plunges downward

in a colossal underwater cascade that drops over 11,500 feet—that’s almost twice the height of the Grand