The Lost Sea

Don Welch takes a tour of America's largest underground lake in Sweetwater, Tennessee.

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• Sweetwater
• Tennessee
• Don
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• Lost
• Sea
• Underground
• Lake

[TheHorseCarer]

I went here in june. It was SOOO much fun! And I had a cute tour giude his name was Hunter. And when he turned the lights out it was so dark! When we were on the boat ride, we seen so many fish through the glass bottom boat! It was so cool. Everyone should go there! And so many cool stories, tales and so much more. We also stayed at the hotel called Willderness In The Smokies. it was a BLAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[paneno28]

Went there in 1979 and was told of the cave they found in the back left hand side of the lake. More than twice the size and they said that if the water level went down they should be able to access that area. They had the rainbow trout there but as the lake is 97% pure they had to hand feed them. One of the great things I saw on a 7 month tour of the USA. 48 states... Bit differant coming from NZ.

[racered94]

went there on a field trip today

[BamaChris]

I went to this place with my mom and my grandmother when I was a very young boy. My grandmother was a mean and ignorant woman, and she told me that The Lost Sea was the home of Satan, and that he would get me if I wasn't a good boy. I'll never forget that.

[redragon88lee]

@bluehairspaz accually, because the lights in the lake, the fish do not go blind, nor are they sterile. Because there are no fast moving currents and the lake bottom is mainly silt and clay, the fish eggs float to the surface of the lake and the fish mistaken the eggs as food.

[RocketTeam4]

I just got back from the cave with my troop it was fun and went on the crawls

[bluehairspaz]

@sammelina12 thats awesome. the guides are young and from the area so kind of stupid. our guide didnt understand the irony that the trout were part of an experiment to see if they could escape. they couldnt so they went blind and sterile so they restock them every four years.

[sammelina12]

When I went there, the tour guide kept joking with me and my mom because we're from Canada. So he said, "You know what we call Americans who leave to go to Canada? Amcans," and apparently that was funny...but nobody understood what was so funny. Then he turned the lights off, so it was complete blackness, and joked, "Let's go" and many girls began to cry.

[appleman963]

we went there with my boyscout troop and we went to go into all the clawls

[missfirekracker]

i remember going there. the tour guide tricked us saying he was going to take a elevator down when we as at the highest point of the cave. lol.