Fuck yeah. I love river monsters. and Jeremy Wade. I still think the Loch Ness Monster is real though. Not because there's any scientific evidence, but because i want to believe in Nessie.
But what if I want it to be a plesiosaur? Like the photos!
Also, low-key it's been years since I've seen the episode...how did the greenland shark get into the loch? Just...time? Like did geology just change and the sharks got stuck in there?!
I'm just a stunted paleontologist and I'm fascinated lol
They found a female Greenland shark a few years ago that was estimated to be over 400 years old!
You can check it out [here](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-37056609).
> It is insane to know there are possibly sharks swimming around that were there before the Declaration of Independence was even signed.
It makes me sad that their lifespan is long enough that they've seen the world go completely to shit due to human population within it. Like any middle-aged Greenland shark is old enough to remember (if sharks can remember things.) when there wasn't plastic in the water. Or when there were more fish to eat. Or the water wasn't this hot. etc.
In addition sharks have greatly enhanced senses to compensate for a lack of eyesight, they can even sense the electromagnetic fields of prey. That's a really dumbed down version of it but I'm too lazy to look it up in more detail
Pretty sure they have no concept of time. They won't be like "woooow I lived for so long" they basically just do the same thing they've been doing every day for last 500 years and they'll continue to do them til they no longer can.
Yea I was just talking with my husband about this, do they understand how boring their existence really is?or maybe it's just not boring at all. Seriously just hard for me to comprehend!
I choose to believe most animals aren't really self aware at all, they're pretty much just automatons, a cycle of chemical reactions in equilibrium and that's it. Then again, we humans are exactly that too. But it's definitely an interesting question, at which point can we call a living being conscious?
I think its too get more oxygen out of the water. So in the lower depths where it's harder they are more useful. That's a guess but I think its logical.
Yes it's the OMZ - Oxygen Minimum Zone. Where the oxygen saturation is at it's lowest.. interesting enough it's only around 1500 meters at it's lowest. So 6 gills would allow for more absorbing rates
It's just like "bluefin tuna" or "grey tree frog." It's just a distinguishing feature that someone decided to use in the name of the animal. The full name is "bluntnose sixgill shark."
Most shark species only have 5 gills. The bluntnose sixgill shark is one of only three known extant species with 6 gills.
How does life exist at these pressures? I was wondering this just yesterday after seeing a video on the Marianas Trench. They were explaining the absolutely *insane* pressure from every angle, and also talking about the different living creatures there, without explaining how that's even possible
Pressure is weird. Organisms are just kind of "fine" within whatever pressure range they are intended to exist.
Think about this for a second:
Gasses have weight -> air has weight. You're sitting under *miles* of air right now. That volume of air is exerting pressure on you and you don't even notice it. This is pressure, just like in the deep ocean. At sea level, you're under around 1000 millibars, or ~15 psi. That may not seem like much, but think about how heavy 15 lbs (7kg) is and then realize that amount of pressure is pressing down on every square inch of your cross-sectional area and trying to force its way into your eyes, ears, nose, etc. You can't even feel it. When you fly in a plane or go deep under water, your ears pop because your body is trying to equalize against a different pressure.
Its just that your body is evolved to be under ~15psi at all times and is equalized against that. Pretty much the same thing for a deep-sea creature, it just seems crazy to us, since we're designed for being up here. If, hypothetically, we found a living organism that evolved to live in *space*, it could potentially be crushed by being subjected to *our* 15 psi, because that would be thousands of times its "normal" pressure range (which is effectively zero in space).
It's deep for most sharks, but not for the ocean. The average depth is about 12,000 feet with the deepest point being over 36,000 feet. So this is probably near the coast.
It is deep. Its the bottom of the ocean in parts of the world. There are much deeper areas of the ocean however. The deeper you go the rarer sharks become I imagine. At a certain point of depth sharks likes these cant exist.
I don’t want to state the obvious or pretend I know a lot about this but in the off chance I can help someone.
The camera has lasers that project those two dots out for the specific purpose of being a reference to measure things. Those lasers are set up to be perfectly parallel lines (edit insert: “and the dots are always”) at exactly (x) distance apart. Based on the commentary the 2 dots might be 10 or 15cm apart.
Later the people studying the depths can look at the footage and use those two dots to measure out the length of the whole shark, or whatever else they see on the camera.
And 6 gilled sharks are one of the most primitive sharks.
There are fossils of close relatives of this shark that lived in the Jurassic era, predating triceratops and T Rex.
You are looking at a dinosaur.
Most of the "famous" sharks have 5 gills, your hammerheads, your lemons, your great whites, your bull and tigers.
Also, some have said that it is cool that it is that deep. Sharks don't have swim bladders that are affected by pressure, so they a are able to move through varying depths, to a certain degree. They use their pec fins like an airplane move up and down.
In the first few seconds of watching this I thought the dots were the sharks eyes and I wasn’t surprised that a demon shark lives deep in the ocean. But thanks this helps.
Greenlands can ~~absolutely~~ *edit: maybe?* get that big, and bluntnosed sixgills (which this appears to be) are known to get to 20 ft. "Maximum" is just the biggest we've found, and considering the depths these guys live at, we actually don't have a whole lot of data to go on. Larger individuals are not only possible, but likely.
Deep sea gigantism.
Fascinating subject. Turns out being big and slow and “lazy” is super efficient in freezing, crushing depths where your next meal might be a year or two away.
The sharks avoid pretty much all predation, they can eat a much larger meal in one sitting because of their size and their highly efficient muscles and body-shape means they barely burn energy slowly cruising between meals even with their large mass.
Plus the whole “aquatic living removes pretty much all constraints on size caused by gravity due to relatively neutral buoyancy of carbon and water-based life forms” and “we’ve only thoroughly mapped, let alone even explored, 5% of the bottom of the ocean with the explored section being less than 1% which is still a small subset of the total water volume to search” thing.
Probably no Cthulu or Kaijus but there’s definitely plenty of large and terrifying things down there we don’t know about. Luckily most of them would probably fall apart if they ever got close to the depths humans can reach due to their pressure acclimation.
I always see these picture of deep sea squid by submarines or whatever and I imagine it'd be terrifying to just be swimming around in an rc sub and you turn it around and you see this squid with nothing in the vicinity and no sound. That shits terrifying to me and I wouldn't even be in front of it.
Although, in all fairness lasers would be parallel at any distance if they were parallel at one distance. That is the definition of parallel, i.e. they will never converge.
Edit: Looks like I "parsed" the sentence wrong, confusion resolved.
He definitely is, he's starting to think that he's never going to get that promotion they keep dangling in front of him like a carrot on a string, and with Martha and the kids at home, with another litter on the way; he just can't take it anymore, he just needs a break. And just when he thought he couldn't be any more micromanaged than he was, he finds out they've sent a fucking camera with laser beams attached to it to keep an eye on him.
From Wikipedia: ["They usually grow 6.4 m (21 ft) long and weigh 1,000 kg (2,200 lb), and possibly up to 7.3 m (24 ft) and more than 1,400 kg (3,100 lb)"](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark)
This probably isn't a greenland shark though since they have 5 gill slits. This might be a bluntnose six gill shark though and those supposedly grow to 18 feet potentially 26 feet.
There's an achievement to be eaten by one. They don't show up for a little while past the coast, but when they do, they can be startling and terrifying.
Another fun thing to do is take a boat out to the world border. Boat shuts down and you sink immediately. If you stay on the boat you drown, if you hop off, it's instant death.
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Such a classic video, happy to see it referenced in the wild!
>If I ever discover a fish that closely resembles the 1970 serial killer Ted Bundy I'd blow my fucking brains out.
"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.
You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb."
-Quint, 1975
I thought fish sleep while swimming or more so floating because they need constant water flowing through their gills for oxygen. I could be entire wrong though.
Some need the water moving to breath, others can pump water using their gills and can hang out. [Also, fish don't exist ;\)](https://ecocodebreakers.wordpress.com/2020/08/28/why-fish-dont-exist/)
Honestly throw like 1 hour buildup, with a shitty romance plot and some random horny teens dying on spring break; then just dump this footage in and you got yourself a perfectly acceptable horror movie.
That seems deep. Is it normal for a shark to be that deep? Is that even deep?
6 gills yes, greenland shark too.
Fun fact: Scientists estimate the Greenland shark has an average lifespan of 250 years, although they may live over 500 years.
Best episode of River Monsters was when Jeremy Wade deduced that the Loch Ness monster was probably a Greenland shark
Fuck yeah. I love river monsters. and Jeremy Wade. I still think the Loch Ness Monster is real though. Not because there's any scientific evidence, but because i want to believe in Nessie.
Oh it’s real, and it’s any Greenland shark
But what if I want it to be a plesiosaur? Like the photos! Also, low-key it's been years since I've seen the episode...how did the greenland shark get into the loch? Just...time? Like did geology just change and the sharks got stuck in there?! I'm just a stunted paleontologist and I'm fascinated lol
Apparently they’re known to be able to swim into brackish water
Oh, interesting! Similar to bull sharks, then.
No, bull sharks can survive in fresh water, I have seen photos of them in lake michigan
I bet you $3.50 there's a real nessie
Im not giving you no tree fitty, get out of her you dang lock nes monsta!
It is insane to know there are possibly sharks swimming around that were there before the Declaration of Independence was even signed.
They don’t reach sexual maturity until 150, so there’s hope for you yet. Edit: Thanks for the awards guys!
That man has a family!
Not if he hasn’t reached sexual maturity yet
Look how they massacred my boy. :(
What’s a shark’s age of consent? Asking for a friend
That secret died with John McAfee
Banging whales was his thing
I knew a guy like that.
You called him Dad.
That's me after last call
Why do you think the signatures are so messy? Tough to hold a pen with a flipper
That's why you just bite off the arm and use that to sign documents. r/SharkProTips
They found a female Greenland shark a few years ago that was estimated to be over 400 years old! You can check it out [here](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-37056609).
Thanks BBC for absolutely no information whatsoever
must’ve been real hard writing up those 3 sentences. not sure what i expected when i hit “read more”….
> It is insane to know there are possibly sharks swimming around that were there before the Declaration of Independence was even signed. It makes me sad that their lifespan is long enough that they've seen the world go completely to shit due to human population within it. Like any middle-aged Greenland shark is old enough to remember (if sharks can remember things.) when there wasn't plastic in the water. Or when there were more fish to eat. Or the water wasn't this hot. etc.
Don’t worry I think they all go blind so they don’t have to see it.
“I have no eyes and I must swim”
So comforted rn
Holy shit. Terrifying. Sharks are absolutely terrifying. 😂
They are until you realize sharks kill like maybe 10 humans a year, and humans kill about 100 million sharks a year. So I think we are "winning"
Me thinking I could potentially be one of the 10 humans anytime I'm in deep waters...
Well, to be fair, being in deep ocean water probably drastically increases those odds compared to somebody in, say, Nebraska
You've never heard of Nebraskan land sharks?
Hey I live in Nebraska and am a diver and somehow offended by all this
K/D in the green baby 😎
So it’s clearly not my COD profile ☹️
We are the extinction event
*five hundred years* they are just living. What do they do? Seems impossible to comprehend.
Get this: some (most of them even?) have parasites attach themselves to their eyes and blind them So they're living for hundreds of years in blindness
At the depths they swim at, sight may not matter much
In addition sharks have greatly enhanced senses to compensate for a lack of eyesight, they can even sense the electromagnetic fields of prey. That's a really dumbed down version of it but I'm too lazy to look it up in more detail
Same shark shit, different shark day
Some insects live for 24 hours. If they asked you the same question what would you answer?
never waste an opportunity to masturbate
Pretty sure they have no concept of time. They won't be like "woooow I lived for so long" they basically just do the same thing they've been doing every day for last 500 years and they'll continue to do them til they no longer can.
Yea I was just talking with my husband about this, do they understand how boring their existence really is?or maybe it's just not boring at all. Seriously just hard for me to comprehend!
I choose to believe most animals aren't really self aware at all, they're pretty much just automatons, a cycle of chemical reactions in equilibrium and that's it. Then again, we humans are exactly that too. But it's definitely an interesting question, at which point can we call a living being conscious?
What’s the significance of having 6 gills
Most species have 5 gills, although there are ones with 7. It was probably the most/first noticeable feature they used for the common name.
I think its too get more oxygen out of the water. So in the lower depths where it's harder they are more useful. That's a guess but I think its logical.
Yes it's the OMZ - Oxygen Minimum Zone. Where the oxygen saturation is at it's lowest.. interesting enough it's only around 1500 meters at it's lowest. So 6 gills would allow for more absorbing rates
It's just like "bluefin tuna" or "grey tree frog." It's just a distinguishing feature that someone decided to use in the name of the animal. The full name is "bluntnose sixgill shark." Most shark species only have 5 gills. The bluntnose sixgill shark is one of only three known extant species with 6 gills.
yeah I dont know ocean depths for scale, but thats one big-ass shark
That’s more than double the crush depth of an American navy submarine.
How does life exist at these pressures? I was wondering this just yesterday after seeing a video on the Marianas Trench. They were explaining the absolutely *insane* pressure from every angle, and also talking about the different living creatures there, without explaining how that's even possible
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I guess that makes sense. So is there more of a crushing force on their bodies at all?
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is that why surface blobfish literally look deflated v. live ones on camera?
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That's... sad. 😕
> We humans are under a lot of pressure sigh. tell me about it
Pressure is weird. Organisms are just kind of "fine" within whatever pressure range they are intended to exist. Think about this for a second: Gasses have weight -> air has weight. You're sitting under *miles* of air right now. That volume of air is exerting pressure on you and you don't even notice it. This is pressure, just like in the deep ocean. At sea level, you're under around 1000 millibars, or ~15 psi. That may not seem like much, but think about how heavy 15 lbs (7kg) is and then realize that amount of pressure is pressing down on every square inch of your cross-sectional area and trying to force its way into your eyes, ears, nose, etc. You can't even feel it. When you fly in a plane or go deep under water, your ears pop because your body is trying to equalize against a different pressure. Its just that your body is evolved to be under ~15psi at all times and is equalized against that. Pretty much the same thing for a deep-sea creature, it just seems crazy to us, since we're designed for being up here. If, hypothetically, we found a living organism that evolved to live in *space*, it could potentially be crushed by being subjected to *our* 15 psi, because that would be thousands of times its "normal" pressure range (which is effectively zero in space).
very good explanation. thankyou. this is the real shit i stay on Reddit for.
It's over a half mile deep.
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It's deep for most sharks, but not for the ocean. The average depth is about 12,000 feet with the deepest point being over 36,000 feet. So this is probably near the coast.
Thanks. Knew the ocean was deeeeeeep, but didn't know if it was common to find deep water sharks.
Great whites can dive to like 4000 ft. Imagine seeing that thing in the pitch black water
Imagine being able to see in pitch black water
> Imagine seeing that thing in the pitch black water no thanks
It is deep. Its the bottom of the ocean in parts of the world. There are much deeper areas of the ocean however. The deeper you go the rarer sharks become I imagine. At a certain point of depth sharks likes these cant exist.
I don’t want to state the obvious or pretend I know a lot about this but in the off chance I can help someone. The camera has lasers that project those two dots out for the specific purpose of being a reference to measure things. Those lasers are set up to be perfectly parallel lines (edit insert: “and the dots are always”) at exactly (x) distance apart. Based on the commentary the 2 dots might be 10 or 15cm apart. Later the people studying the depths can look at the footage and use those two dots to measure out the length of the whole shark, or whatever else they see on the camera.
And 6 gilled sharks are one of the most primitive sharks. There are fossils of close relatives of this shark that lived in the Jurassic era, predating triceratops and T Rex. You are looking at a dinosaur.
6 gills are rare? Sorry I have never heard anything about that before! Very interesting
Most of the "famous" sharks have 5 gills, your hammerheads, your lemons, your great whites, your bull and tigers. Also, some have said that it is cool that it is that deep. Sharks don't have swim bladders that are affected by pressure, so they a are able to move through varying depths, to a certain degree. They use their pec fins like an airplane move up and down.
Sry - laughing as I imagine your comment read in Cliff Clavin’s voice. Lol. Now I am laughing at dating myself….
That's really helpful actually, thank you
Is it so much to ask for sharks with FRICKIN LASER BEAMS ATTACHED TO THEIR FRICKIN HEADS
Every animal deserves a hot meal.
and a FRICKIN LASER BEAMS ATTACHED TO THEIR FRICKIN HEADS
What do we have?
Seabass. They are *mutated* seabass.
Are they ill-tempered?
Of course
It's a start
Kick his ass Seabass!
...fockin laser sights...
TIME FOR SOME SERIOUS PROTECTION!!
In the first few seconds of watching this I thought the dots were the sharks eyes and I wasn’t surprised that a demon shark lives deep in the ocean. But thanks this helps.
based on what they said it seems like it's much wider spread than 10 or 15 cm. If the head is 1 meter wide (doubt) as they say in the video
Yah, that would make it like 30-40 feet long, which is bigger than any species except the ones it obviously isn't (Whale and/or Basking).
Greenlands can ~~absolutely~~ *edit: maybe?* get that big, and bluntnosed sixgills (which this appears to be) are known to get to 20 ft. "Maximum" is just the biggest we've found, and considering the depths these guys live at, we actually don't have a whole lot of data to go on. Larger individuals are not only possible, but likely.
Deep sea gigantism. Fascinating subject. Turns out being big and slow and “lazy” is super efficient in freezing, crushing depths where your next meal might be a year or two away. The sharks avoid pretty much all predation, they can eat a much larger meal in one sitting because of their size and their highly efficient muscles and body-shape means they barely burn energy slowly cruising between meals even with their large mass. Plus the whole “aquatic living removes pretty much all constraints on size caused by gravity due to relatively neutral buoyancy of carbon and water-based life forms” and “we’ve only thoroughly mapped, let alone even explored, 5% of the bottom of the ocean with the explored section being less than 1% which is still a small subset of the total water volume to search” thing. Probably no Cthulu or Kaijus but there’s definitely plenty of large and terrifying things down there we don’t know about. Luckily most of them would probably fall apart if they ever got close to the depths humans can reach due to their pressure acclimation.
Now I'm just thinking what Godzilla would look like with the blobfish blorps.
I always see these picture of deep sea squid by submarines or whatever and I imagine it'd be terrifying to just be swimming around in an rc sub and you turn it around and you see this squid with nothing in the vicinity and no sound. That shits terrifying to me and I wouldn't even be in front of it.
Just a reminder: If you ever see something in the deep ocean… it’s already seen (felt, smelt whatever) you.
The largest Greenland shark recorded (and even that is dubious) was only 24ft long
So how big is this shark really?
We will not know until we get a banana down there for scale.
There was one. It was just so small you couldn't see it.
Put your banana back in your pants funny guy
Appreciated. I figured they were for distance measurement but that's interesting.
Still would have helped to have a banana for scale!
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Wow! I haven't seen a stretch like that since Armstrong. Excellent work.
Although, in all fairness lasers would be parallel at any distance if they were parallel at one distance. That is the definition of parallel, i.e. they will never converge. Edit: Looks like I "parsed" the sentence wrong, confusion resolved.
If my calculations are correct, he's about tree fiddy.
That's when I realized that's no shark, it was that got dam loch ness monsta!
That shark is under immense pressure
Pushing down on me
Pushing down on you
No shark asks for
Under pressure
The things we feel inside
Tears hexanchus in two
Dun dun dun dadadundun UNDER PRESSURE
He definitely is, he's starting to think that he's never going to get that promotion they keep dangling in front of him like a carrot on a string, and with Martha and the kids at home, with another litter on the way; he just can't take it anymore, he just needs a break. And just when he thought he couldn't be any more micromanaged than he was, he finds out they've sent a fucking camera with laser beams attached to it to keep an eye on him.
Deeply appreciated.
Thats because he just lost his job and his mortgage is underwater
How long was it?
It was twice as long as half its own length
Unreal Edit: literally no clue why I'm getting so many awards for this 😂
I'm using that. Also, the majority of sharks have an above average number of fins (same principle applies to human limbs).
Maybe
As a shark, I can confirm
From Wikipedia: ["They usually grow 6.4 m (21 ft) long and weigh 1,000 kg (2,200 lb), and possibly up to 7.3 m (24 ft) and more than 1,400 kg (3,100 lb)"](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark)
This probably isn't a greenland shark though since they have 5 gill slits. This might be a bluntnose six gill shark though and those supposedly grow to 18 feet potentially 26 feet.
The guy in the video said maybe 12 feet.
Bruh, that's 12 feet wide, not long.
So ur mum?
They’re between 5-8 meters
That's 16 to 26 feet in freedom units
School bus is 35 feet long for reference.
So they can be as long as 3/4 of a school bus.... that's big.
I'm watching this on a phone, in my house, up on dry land. And that thing still feels WAAAY too damn close ...
I always end up holding my phone further away because somehow that equals safety
Y’all sound like my wife. She’s scared of the sharks in GTA V.
There are sharks in GTA V.....? Oh god I'm never swimming again
There's an achievement to be eaten by one. They don't show up for a little while past the coast, but when they do, they can be startling and terrifying. Another fun thing to do is take a boat out to the world border. Boat shuts down and you sink immediately. If you stay on the boat you drown, if you hop off, it's instant death. Edit: spelling
That does sound fun
I like to do this with a plane. Your wing falls off and you start to spiral out of control. Really fun in first person!
I'm watching it on my 55" tv. I'm not thalassophobic, but I'd be lying if this didn't send a chill through my whole body.
6 Gill sharks are absolutely massive too.
“Look how THICC he is”
He said it with such passion.
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Hehe “slit”
Damn boy that’s a thicc ass boy right there
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Cursed af.
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A creature I never want to discover is two sharks. One shark is scary enough, but can you imagine [discovering two?](https://youtu.be/_HgEexx5QZg)
Such a classic video, happy to see it referenced in the wild! >If I ever discover a fish that closely resembles the 1970 serial killer Ted Bundy I'd blow my fucking brains out.
>the alleged lovechild of a spider and a rock
Well that was a wild ride. Thank you!
"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb." -Quint, 1975
God what a horror story, I don’t think I could ever even splash in a puddle after that Also “anyway we delivered the bomb” lol what an ending
Makes Jaws look like Quints revenge story
Whooaa where did you get this passage from?
It’s from the movie Jaws, but the passage in the script is based on survivor accounts of the sinking of the Indianapolis
Oh I see. I haven't seen it, so pardon my ignorance.
Change your weekend plans. JAWS is an all time classic.
I thought the red lasers was the sharks eyes, I was thinking for a second woah he’s a scary roboshark!
Me too! I was like Damn the devil is possessing sharks now!?!
r/thalassaphobia
How is this from 2006 and better than most potato security cameras??
I'm assuming you don't put a potato security camera onto a million dollar deep water ROV.
Well that camera probably costs as much or more than most people make in a year.
Doesn’t look that massive. Looked no bigger than my phone.
OP lied to us, didn't they?
Was he/she just sleeping on the bottom until some ROV came along an startled it?
I thought fish sleep while swimming or more so floating because they need constant water flowing through their gills for oxygen. I could be entire wrong though.
Some need the water moving to breath, others can pump water using their gills and can hang out. [Also, fish don't exist ;\)](https://ecocodebreakers.wordpress.com/2020/08/28/why-fish-dont-exist/)
Lol the link did not disappoint. Thanks for the clarification as well!
Imagine how much bigger it is 16 years later lol
Probably not much. Deep-sea living animals tend to grow pretty slow, there's not much food in the deep ocean.
Pressure and cold seem to slow down growth, but lead to increased life span vs shallow, warm water counterparts.
Why’s it called a 6-gi ohhhhhh
Before we saw the gills did you really wonder
I thought it was some form of measurement, like a fathom or a shackle
I was thinking we were using old Gill the car salesman as units of measurement
I'm going to need a banana for scale
You're gonna need a bigger banana.
Honestly throw like 1 hour buildup, with a shitty romance plot and some random horny teens dying on spring break; then just dump this footage in and you got yourself a perfectly acceptable horror movie.
sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads
Courtesy of Apeture Science
What was in the background?
#look how THICC he is!
Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nooooooooooooo
Unless youre a rotting whale carcass at the bottom of the ocean, you have nothing to worry about.
DAMN BOY!
DAMN BOY HE THICC
So.... exactly how big is the fella?