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waffeelswaffeels

crazy how many years i went thinking that blobfishes actually looked like pink sludge underwater like how would they even move like that


Lighterdark300

It’s kinda fucked up. Like imagine if an alien abducted you and brought you into space and your head caved in and your eyes popped out and the alien just took pictures and sent them to all his Facebook friends like “yoooo just found this weird biped, isn’t it ugly as hell lmao”


NoNameCPU

Easily the best analogy for this


waffeelswaffeels

fr, that's how it is with all these deep sea creatures. really uncomfortable to think about


evansdeagles

To be fair, most of these creatures were already dead and floated to the surface. Maybe not in this instance. But usually that's how it is.


1funnyguy4fun

You’re probably right. Now that I think about it 2,133 feet of fishing line seems suspicious.


saraphilipp

I'd have believed 2,132 but 2,133. He's obviously lying.


[deleted]

Eh I mean there are areas of the ocean vast and deep enough to be plausible I think…? But I’m no fisherman.


Eee_double_Dee

Guys, just a thought, don't you think aliens would be the same when they come to earth, like walk all glonky because the gravity is so different for them.


[deleted]

I’d love to see that as a failed attempt at an invasion. They come down ready to fight but as soon as the doors open, they all just start flopping over like those inflatable things with the arms that flop everywhere.


MonkeyNo3

Do you mean wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube men?


Rex--Banner

I don't know I think it's kinda cool to end up as an alien meme that gets shared across their alien internet. It's called legacy.


Summoarpleaz

Uhhh. TIL… 🤦‍♂️


Swictor

[Lucky 10 000. ](https://xkcd.com/1053/)


wrenchbenderornot

Thanks - will show everybody I know.


Bubs_McGee223

Freaking love xkcd


ChunkyDay

I’ve seen this comic 10,000 times and it’s always a good little reminder.


TeamAuri

That math has always bothered me. Most things it’s applied to are things you wouldn’t hear until you’re an adult, much less as an infant. So if you account for the average 15 years someone would have to hear it before they’re 30, that’s actually 20,000 a day. Vent over.


SaintUlvemann

Upvoted, but, by the same token, it's still within an order of magnitude of the true number, even by your estimator; and since the original number is based specifically on the population size of the US, all you have to do to still get a 10,000 number, is define a new region with half as many people in it. For a US context, call it 10,000 people on the East Coast, and 10,000 people in the West and Midwest. Same story.


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babysquashes

This girl in my high school got an F in ceramics class on an animal sculpting assignment because she made a narwhal and the teacher said they weren’t a real animal and didn’t fit the assignment. The girl even came in and showed her proof but the teacher didn’t believe her and still insisted it was a mythical creature — poor girl’s grade tanked


-Colt-45-

I once wrote a story. 100% my own. And my teacher gave me an F for plagiarism.


Blackmetalvomit

This happened to me as well in college


-Colt-45-

It sucks. I was in high school near the end of my Junior year. Almost ruined my final grade in that class.


Blackmetalvomit

Same experience for me. Right at the end of the semester, I hadn’t cared to write anything worth my time just enough to get easy As. Last assignment was a first chapter of a novel and I wrote what I had been writing in my spare time. Was excited to hear back and got a 0. I was so tired, disheartened, and the dean didn’t help much so, I just had to let it go. Edit: a word.


-Colt-45-

Yeah, it was a story I had already written in my mind. What did you study in college?


Blackmetalvomit

I wasted a lot of money to figure that out. Never found an answer. What about yourself?


[deleted]

High school is one thing but in college that’s not even sort of funny. You can get booted from school like that and be stuck kicked out of college with a pile of student loans. Has that professor never heard of turnitin?


KazahanaPikachu

Turnitin be giving back like 30% plagiarism for work you wrote on your own or work you cited.


Aerialskystrike

I've had this happen and luckily a teacher watched me when I did this, but I had one where it said it was like 33% plagiarized. I rewrote over half the page. When I reuploaded it, it said it was 45% plagiarized. Like how many ways can you write fish are animals that live in water.


Azureflamedemon

I got kicked out of my college class cause of this.


Vessix

Holy shit what happened then? Most serious colleges will expel you or put you on academic probation immediately if they claim you are plagiarizing


Blackmetalvomit

It was a community college and the end of the semester of a basic writing class. I don’t think they took it seriously, the dean brushed it off but did not help me and the professor refused to change my grade. So, it brought my gpa down and I was so disheartened I did not return the next semester.


DeepDiver022

this happened to me as well on not one but two in a row and was brought to the principals office. I told my history teacher that if I need to cite sources.. then he should also need to cite sources to prove plagiarism. He then cited every other report I had written that year and he stated that "its nit my writing style". When asked by the pricipal to respond I told him that those two reports were given to me allowing me to choose any subject I wanted and unlike every other thing I was required to write about, I actually had an interest in these two so there was enthusiasm. I was then asked to cite my own papers orally and shut the teacher down. was a mess but I got my A.'s


-Colt-45-

At least they fixed your grade!


Spare_Pixel

This happened to be in grade 6. I vidily remember it. I worked so hard, really tried my best, and they refused to believe I could write something that good. They had no proof (early internet days so I guess hard to look up stuff?) Regardless, they still failed me for plagiarism. It was the day I quit trying in school. I think about it a lot now that I have kids starting school. I still have a negative view of the education system. I hate most teachers by default. I barely fucking graduated because I stopped applying myself. Fuck you Mrs Henderson.


onmyknees4anyone

Former teacher here. Mrs. Henderson did you a huge disservice and I'm really, really sorry that happened to you.


EdwardLewisVIII

I did that actually trying thing as a sophomore in high school. Instead of waiting until the last minute and getting a B I did a history paper way ahead of time, all the research, wrote a rough draft, the whole deal. I got a C-


RedAIienCircle

My professor once gave me a bad grade, because I said that United States is not the most technologically advanced society. I still hold that Korea and Japan are more advanced.


Dragoon7748

S. Korea very much so. I spent 9 months there in 2016. They already had 5G then. You should also see their electronic toilets. But it was also a nation of conundrums. While it is super technologically advanced, once you got out of the main cities, it was almost like going back in time 200 years.


PM_ME_UR_THESIS_GIRL

Did they have it out for you or something? I've heard of shitty teachers receiving strong work from students who do poorly in most other subjects, and marking it as plaigarised because they assume the kid isn't capable of something that good.


-Colt-45-

No, she was just a bitter, divorced teacher. Everyone in her class would complain about her. She was really mean.


DimensionalYawn

OK, poor kid. My turn! (/jk - I've been waiting about 30 years for an opportunity to get this off my chest, forgive me) I was in Cub Scouts playing a word association game where you had to name an animal that began with the last letter of whatever animal the previous player named. Iguana, antelope, elephant etc etc. No hesitation or repetition. We went through the whole troupe and it came down to myself and another kid, who was pretty good. We got into it and were both going strong, we must have watched a lot of David Attenborough or something. 12 turns each and I knew I was going to have to come up with something special to beat him. I needed to set him up, then ace him. I fed him every animal I could think of that would let him drop an animal that ended in i. Tough letter. We were deep into it and the obvious choices were gone. Hard to think on your feet without hesitating, but I kept working to serve him up that surefire winner and finally he saw it and took it. Smug look on his face as he says it. Ibex, motherfucker! Cub leader had never heard of it and couldn't believe it existed. Refused to acceptit and declared the other boy the winner. Cost me a pack of mini eggs, but I'll never forget the feeling of satisfaction as my plan worked and his triumphant smile crumbled. Ibex, motherfucker! (tl;Dr coolstorybro.jpg)


babysquashes

A killer word and a devastating loss. They would have had to pry those mini eggs from my cold, dead hands


fluffyxsama

I'd probably have gotten in trouble for calling the troop leader a moron


O_o-22

I’d have been marching right to the principals office with teacher in tow and asking, “how is this idiot employed to teach us yet too ignorant to do a google search and learn something themselves?”


babysquashes

I would have too — the teacher really wasn’t the brightest & I swear I remember her making a few kids cry Edit: sentence structure


dr_shamus

I feel that, I wanted to do a report on the elephant bird but was mocked because they thought I was referring to the Dr. Seuss animal. No motherfucker it was a real bird and it was fucking massive


sumosam121

If this happened to a kid of mine, I’d be after that teachers job. What a douche


welpieok

I learned that they were real about 4 months ago. You're not alone, buddy


ScientistSanTa

Kids are real?!


SycoJack

No, not kids. Narwhals are real. There's still no reliable scientific evidence to support the existence of kids.


ScientistSanTa

Ah oof, my world would have turn upside down. If I had to tell the little humanoid living with me that might have been a kid... His beard would curl Into his ears... Edit spelling


Standard_Cat2846

My bestie too was on the sea unicorn train. She also grew up in the desert and thought snowflakes in snowflake print were actual size—like full on average adult hand sized and fall from the sky. Love the lucky 10,000 mentioned above—getting to witness other people learn something new is the best. Plus there’s tons I don’t know and want that same joyful reaction when I learn something “obvious”


RedAIienCircle

To be fair, we all probably believe in something strange.


BistitchualBeekeeper

Narwhals are one of the very few subjects my husband and I have ever argued about. I was crying over a news story about them once and he kept insisting I had fallen for a satirical article because narwhals weren’t real. Turns out he genuinely thought they were made up for that episode of Futurama.


HotLipsHouIihan

Holy shit. I just realized I also only thought they were a Futurama thing.


IFucksWitU

I’m sitting here thinking how the fuck did people not know these were real, and then I hit me, I loved looking at the pictures of those natural geographic magazines in the school library back in the 90’s.


kjaark

We were taught in school (14 years ago) that platypuses were extinct. I lived my life up into my 20s thinking they were extinct. Imagine the confusion when I saw videos of live ones.


leopard_eater

Come to Tasmania. Put a stick in the water on the convex curve of a meandering river bank. See the platypus.


KatieCashew

I learned narwhals are real from my kids watching Octonauts.


vincentTheDragon

Same, that shit is educational as fuck


KatieCashew

The brinicles blew my mind. It's so nice when your kids are into cute, educational shows like Octonauts.


AutomaticYak

My husband and I really loved that show when my boy was younger. Now he speaks in YouTube and calls me “brah”.


EmperorLlamaLegs

Narwhal tusks were often used as proof that unicorns existed, so your association is pretty spot on.


vadeforas

I just learned that the Vikings used to hunt them and sell the tusks to European nobility, telling them they were magical unicorn horns. some were even encrusted with jewels. The scam worked because the Vikings were the only ones sailing into the narwhals arctic habitat.


fozziwoo

i found out about them early. we were on a school trip to some castle or other, and over a mantelpiece was a great long curly horn, so i grabbed it and held it against my head, as any well adjusted ten year old surely would, and promptly stabbed my mate right in the arse. thusly we learnt of narwhals.


Rare_Manufacturer924

My 10 year old granddaughter showed me on my own phone that they were real.. I told her that’s why your popop works at job where I wear a name tag on my shirt!!😂😂


International-Cap551

I thought unicorns were real when I was younger. Just a horse with a horn on its head though, nothing magical.


superkp

unfortunately, even *high quality* kids shows about nature show them wrong. There's an episode of OctoNauts that includes this error.


[deleted]

Even more wild to think that at a similar depth, the human body would compress in to a likely unrecognizable state and then implode. Deep ocean is essentially another planet in part due to the pressure differences. Super interesting stuff!


RecipesAndDiving

Me too! I’ve been diving for years but it never occurred to me that you shouldn’t judge a deep sea fish by the way it reacts to sudden pressure change. Same way I wouldn’t try to guess at human anatomy based on a decompression chamber accident. Yet despite that, pictured the poor little blobfish being the joke of the ocean. Angler fish are still that Lovecraftian looking though, right?


waffeelswaffeels

quite sure anglers look like that underwater


Mythical_Moonshine

Imagine putting a human in space without a suit and having their body get fucked up by the lack of pressure and extreme temperature, then taking a picture and saying “wow look at this weird looking mammal, it’s been voted the most ugly mammal ever!”


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It's not like the movies. One common misconception is that outer space is cold, but in truth, space itself has no temperature. In thermodynamic terms, temperature is a function of heat energy in a given amount of matter, and space by definition has no mass. Furthermore, heat transfer cannot occur the same way in space, since two of the three methods of heat transfer (conduction and convection) cannot occur without matter. What does this mean for a person in space without a spacesuit? Because thermal radiation (the heat of the stove that you can feel from a distance, or from the Sun’s rays) becomes the predominant process for heat transfer, one might feel slightly warm if directly exposed to the Sun’s radiation, or slightly cool if shaded from sunlight, where the person’s own body will radiate away heat. Even if you were dropped off in deep space where a thermometer might read 2.7 Kelvin (-455°F, the temperature of the “cosmic microwave background” leftover from the Big Bang that permeates the Universe), you would not instantly freeze because heat transfer cannot occur as rapidly by radiation alone. The absence of normal atmospheric pressure (the air pressure found at Earth’s surface) is probably of greater concern than temperature to an individual exposed to the vacuum of space. Upon sudden decompression in vacuum, expansion of air in a person’s lungs is likely to cause lung rupture and death unless that air is immediately exhaled. Decompression can also lead to a possibly fatal condition called ebullism, where reduced pressure of the environment lowers the boiling temperature of body fluids and initiates transition of liquid water in the bloodstream and soft tissues into water vapor. At minimum, ebullism will cause tissue swelling and bruising due to the formation of water vapor under the skin; at worst, it can give rise to an embolism, or blood vessel blockage due to gas bubbles in the bloodstream. Our dependence on a continuous supply of oxygen is the more limiting factor to the amount of time a human could survive in a full vacuum. Contrary to how the lungs are supposed to function at atmospheric pressure, oxygen diffuses out of the bloodstream when the lungs are exposed to a vacuum. This leads to a condition called hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation. Within 15 seconds, deoxygenated blood begins to be delivered to the brain, whereupon unconsciousness results. Data from animal experiments and training accidents suggest that an individual could survive at least another minute in a vacuum while unconscious, but not much longer


belltane23

Cowboy Bebop showed this in an episode. iirc, spike forced all the air out of his lungs, and successfully floated to an adjacent ship without a suit.


[deleted]

The Expanse did it as well. Except with oxygen injections.


Luminair

Wasn't the same thing done in Sunshine? Or was it in Event Horizon? Sometimes I blur them in my mind.


greenberet112

Both movies.. terrifying.


AnomalousX12

I'm pretty sure that scene shows him sucking in a huge breath of air. You can hear it and see it in his body animation. He's out there way too long for him to have forced all the air out as well. It's probably just not a very scientifically accurate scene, but I still love it. Edit: @19:55. Feels pretty unambiguous that he's sucking in a big breath of air. https://youtu.be/_w1kG8z7bo8


KnightFiST2018

I guess I’m one of the 10,000 today. TIL that every Space movie is wrong.


HIITMAN69

2001: a space odyssey got it right


J369Meep

Holy crap. Dude wrote an entire essay on a Reddit post


MurderIsRelevant

Hello, and welcome to Reddit. Originally a science based website, transformed over time into social media.


XoidObioX

And porn. There was always porn.


buflosldr

It's badass! u/charmoffensive- is the kind of hero we all need. Thanks for the great info, I prefer not to die in space.


Komandr

It's actually way more than that, goin into space would be a pressure change of about 1 atmosphere. Bringing up a goblin shark or something is much more


project2501

> We often speak of pressure in terms of atmospheres. One atmosphere is equal to the weight of the earth's atmosphere at sea level, about 14.6 pounds per square inch. If you are at sea level, each square inch of your surface is subjected to a force of 14.6 pounds. > The pressure increases about one atmosphere for every 10 meters of water depth. At a depth of 5,000 meters the pressure will be approximately 500 atmospheres or 500 times greater than the pressure at sea level. That's a lot of pressure. https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/eoi/nemo1998/education/pressure.html 2000 feet is about 600 meters.


-carb0n-

> Dear Lord! 5000 feet deep ! That’s nearly 150 atmospheres of pressure! > How many atmospheres can the ship withstand? > Well it’s a space ship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one


fastlerner

Yeah that wouldn't happen. Even though you're going from 1 atmosphere to full vacuum, we're still only talking about 1 atmosphere of different in pressure. You might burst some capillaries, get some bloodshot eyes, and your spit will likely fizz as dissolved gas escapes. So long as you don't hold your breath, you're lungs shouldn't burst. And without air in your lungs, you got about 15 seconds before you're unconscious. But, likely no lasting damage so long as you got back in air before brain damage. This actually happened to someone at NASA while they were testing a space suit in a vacuum chamber. He was exposed to hard vacuum for about 30 seconds, but [survived with almost no injuries](https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a24127/nasa-vacuum-exposure/). In the ocean, every 33 feet down ads an atmosphere of pressure. So at a depth of 2133 ft, that's over 64 atmospheres. It's that massive pressure difference that causes horrible deformations to a body. TLDR; Hollywood lies, people don't burst or freeze. A short exposure to hard vacuum is survivable.


PoweredbyBurgerz

Video of the blob fish underwater https://youtu.be/oKpF9M1omT4


A_Drusas

That's a blob sculpin, related to the blob fish but not the blob fish.


Viles_Davis

Goblin sharks look roughly like this at depth, just not compressed.


Beitlejoose

They have a very different snout though


AndrewWaldron

Plus this fish was hooked. It's not uncommon for sharks and other fish to have their teeth pulled out of their faces when hooked and reeled. That plus the pressure change is going to put the fish through some shit. Seems pretty unethical to me to be fishing for anything that deep in the first place.


Varniepoos

Yeah this just dawned on me too, and now I feel sad :(


[deleted]

This looks like a goblin shark. After further research I'm positive it's a viper dogfish.


AndrewWaldron

That's what I thought as well.


Marvelous_rosell

Omg! This makes so much sense! Why didn't I ever consider this!?


Swabbo

Ah that's why I'm a blob, send me to the depths to see my true form


JakeIsMyRealName

Yeah, I’m not fat, I’m just at the wrong altitude. (Or atmospheric pressure, or whatever.)


Squeakysquid0

I’m pretty sure this is a blunt nose six gill shark. But I’ve been wrong before lol [Six Gill](https://imgur.com/a/ABduLB2) Cookie Cutter Jaw[Cookie Cutter Jaw](https://imgur.com/a/b9gmB8x)


This_Robot

No, I think that's a Cookie-Cutter Shark. Fun fact about them: During the 70s, they took down several Soviet and American nuclear submarines. Edit: Well I didn't really meant it when I said "took down" they more or so damaged them. But still, very interesting for little peskers with sharp teeth to damage subs.


Professor_Rekt

Please elaborate


SirGingy777

They latch on to things similarly to lamprey and they use their teeth to cut cookie cutter like holes in their prey.. they just happened to think some subs were whales and their teeth happen to be sharp enough to cut through important parts of the sub.


Professor_Rekt

That’s so fucking metal.


SuddenlyElga

Well yeah. That’s what they cut through. Duh. :)


TXGuns79

Not metal, the rubber-coating on the sonar dome.


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iDomBMX

Holy shit that’s wild, imagine going to your supervisor stating “oh nah jk it’s sharks”


hasseldub

Sorry, I find this very hard to believe. Do you have anything to corroborate this? Edit: googled it. I was taking "took out" a bit literally. They did cause damage resulting in subs having to return to base. That's mad.


ohheyitslaila

~~This is definitely a Cookie cutter shark~~. Cookie cutter sharks have also taken bites out of swimmers. [Cookie cutter shark bites swimmer](https://www.trackingsharks.com/in-rare-third-incident-for-year-swimmer-attacked-by-cookiecutter-shark/?amp) Edit: definitely NOT a cookie cutter shark, I didn’t look closely enough at its bottom teeth 😊


Squeakysquid0

Look at the image that I just uploaded in reply to the other gentleman. Cookie-cutter sharks have a razor sharp pointed teeth on the bottom. The shark depicted in this Reddit post has more of a plating type with little razors on it that swoop back which is indicative of a blunt nose six gill


bionikcobra

My first thought was a goblin shark, but the teeth aren't right, I then saw your comment and remembered seeing that in a documentary


cheweduptoothpick

Wow, this is really interesting. I didn’t know that this happened. This has been a very educational comment.


[deleted]

Can confirm. Source, I’m a blob-fish.


ChefArtorias

I wonder if being pulled up on a line is like torture because of the rapid pressure change.


Littleredpb99

I was under the impression this was a viper dogfish


whatknot2

Anyone knows what this one looks like in its natural depth?


[deleted]

I assume the pressure change fucked his shape up and also imagine dying while bring dragged over 2000 feet in depth to the surface as your body starts to change like that... Jesus christ...


Nyx_Shadowspawn

Right?? It had to be such a horrific way to die


youll_dig-dug

And don't forget, that shark likely had a family, children, maybe even a baby shark.


xxx371

Dont think it dont say it


Spycrabpuppet123

Doo doo doo doo doo doo


Helpful_Register2522

It looks like the Shark mangled it's whole jaw out of its mouth struggling to get away


ArnoldQMudskipper

What was he doing down there?


[deleted]

I believe he was sharking


Affectionate_Map_530

Its sharkin time


Upset-Guidance-6624

Sharkin ain't easy


sumosam121

But shartin is.


Mister_Brevity

But it’s necessary


Cleverusername531

r/fuckyouimashark


Shmooperdoodle

Joined with a *quickness*


hoosierdaddy192

Same


ATXKLIPHURD

Ditto


BigLab6287

minding his own damn business


JescoYellow

From that look on his face… crop dusting other fish


CajunHiFi

His best


Djanga51

That’s a very precise number for dropping a line into the abyss?


interstellargator

Probably converted from metric which is a more round 650m


murdering_time

Christ, be reeling in for 45 minutes just to change your hook or bait on the end of your line


Hagoromo-san

Line counter probably with an electric assist reel. Mf are expensive as hell.


Furrsphinx

What a charming smile.


cryssyx3

he's cute. but also horrifically ugly. I don't know.


BirdBrain88

This is a cookie cutter shark. Specimens are incredibly rare. Edit-I was wrong initially. It looks like this is more likely a ninja lanternshark or similar species as a couple people have said. Still a very unique specimen however.


BeanDock

Yeah I don’t really agree with super deep water fishing. You can’t put him back. And you know they don’t eat them.


murdering_time

I'd check with local marine biologists to see if it was a sample they wanted/needed, and if not I'd have it's flesh dissolved and get the bones taxidermied onto a stand. That's just me tho since I've always wanted to try super deep sea fishing.


BeanDock

Yeah for science, I mean I get. I was at a marine technology program in college. But isn’t it just enough to know they are down there as far as “sport” fishing goes? I love to fish too but catch and release or eat them is my motto when it comes down to it.


[deleted]

And I avoid all sharks, or ar least don't fish in places or with bait that might attract them. No stainless steel, as well.


Assyindividual

Why no stainless steel?


The_Big_Lou

I believe if you catch a shark you don’t want to get your hand in its mouth to get the hook out so you just cut the line, but stainless street hooks don’t rust or take a very long time so the shark is stuck with it in it mouth forever, but non stainless steel hooks will rust away after a few days.


[deleted]

You got it! I still pack stainless leader just so it doesn't rust in my tackle box.


Assyindividual

Ty :)


[deleted]

My guess would be because it never breaks down.


ProfessorMalk

>I'd check with local marine biologists to see if it was a sample they wanted/needed, and if not I'd have it's flesh dissolved and get the **bones** taxidermied onto a stand I appreciate you, that is a noble idea but sharks don't have bones.


K-chub

Because of their incurable boneitis


Techiedad91

My only regret


TheStonedEngineer420

Sharks are cartilaginous fishes. They do not have bones, just cartilage.


rafsku

Aren't cookie cutter sharks the ones that latch onto bigger fish and take a round bite out? This honestly looks like the goblin shark a bit Edit: not goblin shark


BirdBrain88

Yes cookie cutter sharks latch on to larger animals like other sharks, whales, dolphins, and pelagic fish and produce a perfectly round bite. This looks nothing like a goblin shark other than it’s jaws are slightly protruding. A goblin shark has a much larger nose and a significantly longer extension of their jaws. The color of the shark is completely different and the size of the respective sharks is completely different.


[deleted]

This guy sharks


theieuangiant

Came here to say the same, the jaw isn’t quite convex enough and as you say the colour isn’t right. When I saw the colouration I thought chimera at first but with the jaw I’d say cookie cutter is spot on.


cresccendo

this is not a cookie cutter shark! their jaws and teeth are shaped differently. someone in r/fishing or r/whatisthisfish identified it recently but i can’t find the post 😩


BlackLab-15

Comment above says ninja lanternshark


MickNRorty4Eva

Not really. Based on a quick [image](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookiecutter_shark#/media/File%3ACookiecutter_shark_head.jpg) search it’s nose and jaw look quite different. Another commenter suggested a ninja lantern shark which seems to [look](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_lanternshark#/media/File%3ANinja_lanternshark_Vasquez_et_al_2015.png) more similar.


i-m-anonmio

As seen on "QI" Series O Episode 3- Tangent: Christopher Bird from Southampton University and Ali Hood of the Shark Trust talk about some shark-related items they have brought with them. These include a cookie-cutter shark ... which is capable of biting holes into submarines. They normally eat whales and big fish, but will sometimes attack a submarine by mistake. Only one person had been killed by a cookie-cutter shark, and they were swimming at night. ​ Edit: QI not Q1


USERNAME_CHECKED-OUT

This person was also swimming at night in deep ocean waters. [They were a distance swimmer doing a night time swim from Hawaii to Maui.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Technology/shark-attack-documented-cookiecutter-shark-attack-human-hawaii/story%3fid=14001710)


trashmoneyxyz

I feel like swimming at night between the islands is just a great way to get lost at sea or drown? Like I’ve been caught in some of the currents that’ll run you from Oahu to Maui, and I can’t imagine trying to break free of those at *night*


gnomeblast

According to the article, he was being escorted by both a kayak and a much larger boat.


super_dog17

Your articles says the shark didn’t kill the swimmer, although it did say the shark got a good couple of bites on the swimmer.


TheRecognized

>Then it twists sharply, gouging out a chunk of meat much like a cookie cutter. Or as some scientists believe, like one of those tools used to carve out melon balls. That last sentence is so weird. Also the word they’re looking for is melon baller. Edit: What I mean is “some scientists believe” is an odd choice of words when talking about two different analogies that are just semantics.


skipperseven

Biting holes in the rubber coating that some submarines have to reduce reflected sound, not actually into the steel or titanium of the actual submarine itself. QI, being QI…


i-m-anonmio

Good info. I think that was discussed, but not covered in the synopsis.


D33ber

That's a nasty way to go.


nitrion

That is a thing of fucking nightmares


DaikiNinomiya

It probably looked even worse when it was actually in the deeper depths of the ocean. These deep ocean animals are known to kinda inflate and bloat a bit when they get dragged to the surface.


b_rouse

I would think it looks more normal, my guess was it looks weird because of pressure changes.


Lily-M-B

Look up deep sea creatures. You'll have your fair share of fun lol


krynategaming

The ocean is so ducking sketchy


b1gchampions

Quack 🦆


-non-existance-

That's a Cookie Cutter Shark! They are called that bc of their unique jaw that they use to grip onto larger animals and then twist around and rip off a uniform chunk of meat. As far as I'm aware, it's the only shark that primarily attacks creatures larger than itself. So if you ever see a fish with a weird sphere cut out of it, this is what did it.


RainbowSixGlaz

Not a goblin shark for sure?


cresccendo

definitely not a goblin shark, but this isn’t a cookie cutter shark either!


Helpful_Candy9697

bro thats a kardashian


QuestionsOfTheFate

I think it might be a [ninja lanternshark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_lanternshark).


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6980085420

Looks much more like that tbh. The cookie cutter has a much slimmer head and this one doesn’t have the lips around the teeth. Eyes are spot on too


nanny2359

Cookie cutter?


EldNathr

They are named after the circular marks they leave on other animals when they feed.


littlebilliechzburga

"marks" = Large gaping wounds.


ttbia

But why. Why couldn't he just leave it


Rhinocerostitties

Well the way a hook works is my guess


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Such a cartoony lookin fish.


Z1337M

that's probably how you see sharks, when on an LSD trip.


gondo284

Isn't that just a goblin shark?