It's amazing how much an environment can change the way something as ordinary as an egg behaves. After you watch this video, you're going to be holding your breath (or whipping out a snorkel) in the pool or bath tub. I don't know any kid who wouldn't love this!
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences conducted this underwater experiment to study movement. The cool project reminds me a lot of the time an astronaut suspended water in zero gravity with just a wet napkin.
The team was 60 feet under the ocean's surface. Two scuba divers carefully cracked open an egg and began poking it around.
Instead of the egg immediately losing its shape as it would on dry land, the water becomes another eggshell.
With 2.8 times the atmospheric pressure, the yolk stays in tact, making the scuba divers able to do some interesting things to it. They held it in the palm of their hands. They spun it. They even blew it. You're not going to believe how the egg reacted! It sounds silly, but seeing an egg like this is actually very cool. If you're not into full emersion try a fish tank (without the fish) or a large container and see if you can make the egg move like this.
Watch to see what the egg does and SHARE if you thought this was hypnotic.
