Deep Sea Creatures After Tsunami

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Turns out the Tsunami brought up loads of weird creatures from the bottom of the sea.

One of 'em actually looks like it has a human eye.

Sea Creatures

By the way, my dad told me that seafood prices in Asia are dropping 'cos more and more people are afraid to eat them in case those fishes have been eating rotten corpses.
 
Tsunami washups or not, those are cool. The ocean proves all the time that we have literally only scratched the surface in our understanding of it.
 
I don't swim in water where something bigger than me could be lurking. NOW I am not going in at all.... thanks. :grumpy:
 
KnifeAddictAK said:
Remind me to NEVER swim with Pic #2 swimming out there somewhere :eek:
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That look like a Deep Sea Angler fish. They can get to about 4 feet in length. They're only found in very deep waters, where there is no natural light.
 
KnifeAddictAK said:
Remind me to NEVER swim with Pic #2 swimming out there somewhere :eek:

Cool Pics...Thanks :cool:
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I was looking at number 12 and he doesn't look all that pleasant a neighbor either. Ouch!

Ren the devils trailboss said:
Question are any of these sea creatures Gay?? Just wondering
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No, Ren, the question is whether any are gay and want to get married. :D
 
They are so cute and cuddly !! Inner space [ the oceans] are fascinating and we have so much more to learn. Most of those fish seem to be deep water fish ,the kind that deep diving machines have filmed.
 
Very interesting, regardless of origin.

I'm surprised that they are still intact. I thought that deep-sea critters generally "exploded" when they got near the surface, due to the high internal pressure that protects their organs from the ocean's external pressure. It's been awhile though. I do remember that some species have bioluminescent stalks around their mouths. Smaller fish get attracted to the light, come over to investigate, and ... POW.

As for ferocious, check out the mouth-to-body ratio on this guy. It's half jaw...:eek:

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tarsier said:
Very interesting, regardless of origin.

I'm surprised that they are still intact. I thought that deep-sea critters generally "exploded" when they got near the surface, due to the high internal pressure that protects their organs from the ocean's external pressure. It's been awhile though. I do remember that some species have bioluminescent stalks around their mouths. Smaller fish get attracted to the light, come over to investigate, and ... POW.

As for ferocious, check out the mouth-to-body ratio on this guy. It's half jaw...:eek:

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It's called a Gulper eel. They live at depths of around 6560 feet and hang vertically in the water waiting for prey which they snatch with their loosely hinged jaws, apparently, this bad boy can swallow stuff almost as big as he is :eek: . I first saw them on the excellent BBC series "The Blue Planet". :)
 
Those are some creepy creatures! :eek: I knew there was a good reason I'm afraid to swim in the ocean, other than sharks. Some of those things make sharks look like puppy dogs.

~ashes
 
Damn. It's all a big lie. I was wondering why they were wasting time picking fish up when they had so many other things to do like saving lives.

Anyway, it's interesting to see that these weird looking things actually live in our oceans.
 
lol interesting but I would rather swim with them then a great white ;)

but as said, dont they have lives to help and a massive clean up instead of picking fish up?
 
Lovely, I wonder what they taste like(spoken like a true Singaporean).

I remember trying to hunt a five-foot long monitor lizard for food when I was on a survival course last time. My colleague managed to whack it with a parang, but it didn't even penetrate its skin.

The soft-looking fishes look as if they would be OK steamed with garlic and ginger, or deep fried with a light, crispy batter.

Yum yum.
 
tarsier said:
Very interesting, regardless of origin.
I'm surprised that they are still intact. I thought that deep-sea critters generally "exploded" when they got near the surface, due to the high internal pressure that protects their organs from the ocean's external pressure.


I don't believe it's the case with all fish.
I've caught both trout and some salt water ground fish that have puffed up
at as shallow as 200 feet but many others do not. It varies species by species.
Hell we can't even figure out how seals can hobble about on land and then dive hundreds of feet.
A lot of fascinating things are being revealed every day by those studying the oceans of the world. I hope they could only last long enough for us to learn it all.
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I'm pretty sure that when those denizens were collected at great depths, they were locked into a hyperbaric chamber of sorts to keep them at the same pressure as the depth from which they were taken, then the pressure was very slowly released to keep them fom exploding or puffing up.
Seals and other air breathing mammals take a breath at the surface, dive to depth, but the pressure does not build up in the tissues.
They actually shrink a bit in size as the air in the lungs is compresssed, and can resurface without a decompression cycle, as the air does not expand to a volume greater than that they went down with.
Not a too simple explanation?
 
I don't buy the idea that it's necessary to decompress all fish to keep them from puffing.
The basis for my opinion is not scientific but as told to my by a fishing buddy that deep wire lined fish in the Azores when he was in the Air force. It's a common way of fishing there. Some puffed some didn't. Most were dead already.
I think it varies a lot species by species. not worth the trouble to look it up officially.
Seals is simple enough but I was thinking more about how amazed the researchers were recently when the new high tech gear let them track them far deeper than they ever imagined was possible. Weren't the deep divers in your area howie?
The same pop up data recorders are a blessing to the study of salt water game fish too. It's helping us learn a lot about managing the Marlin
and tuna fishery. Probably of no interest to you inlanders.
Sorry bout the ramble
 
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