Last December one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history (measuring 9 on the Richter Scale), struck just off Sumatra, Indonesia, in a fault line running deep under the water. The rupture caused massive tsunamis, that hurtled away from the epicenter, reaching shores as far away as Africa.
A few days after the disaster, a friend and fellow fishkeeper sent me an e-mail containing a number of images depicting strange, deep-water fish that were supposedly washed up by onto shore by the huge waves and cataloged by scientists.
Although these are, in fact, genuine images of some very strange deep-sea creatures, these photographs have nothing to do with the Indian Ocean tsunami. They date from mid-2003 and were taken by researchers on the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Australian-New Zealand research expedition conducted
While I hate to see these creatures dragged up from the abyss, I am very much a “deep junky”, and take great delight in learning more about marine life from the murky depths. Mostly, it is for this reason that I have developed such a strong interest in both powered and unpowered DIY ROV technology.
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Wow…talk about a serious amount of ugly. Very cool pictures. I’ll take two of the second one with fries and a large coke.
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your keen Matt. My local fish shop sells deep fried battered Mar’s bars…..and i thought that was bad……………………
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I got the same email from my dad right after the tsunami. It’s really made the rounds.
If you’re looking for other deep sea fish, check out NOVA’s Deep Sea Bestiary (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/life/bestiary.html). Sadly, a few of the images are only drawings, but there are plenty of photos to give you nightmares for days…
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haha thats sick but your really should build a water proof fisha ndlet it say down in da ocean for like a year or 4 months ors somthing lik ethat and see wat kina things are down thyere!
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this is soo weird
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weirdest fish ever
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It’s a good thing half these creatures in the pics have been discovered already, they they just are hard to see and find since they’re so far under the ocean. They still ARE a bit scarey looking though.
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Its a shame these natural disasters occur and i have had several tsunami nightmares because it scares the hell out of me, but look what can be learnt from them…new species. One of these ugly buggers could hold the cure for cancer?? just a thought………..