What creatures lurk in the deep sea?, page 3
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reply posted on 6-1-2008 @ 07:28 AM by andre18
reply to post by toreishi



a reply to the first vid on the slow moving big ass shark....

en.wikipedia.org...


reply posted on 6-1-2008 @ 09:14 AM by merka
reply to post by andre18


I highly doubt its a basking shark (and still not a megalodon). The gills are clearly visible in the video and one of the distinct features of the basking shark is large gills: this shark has small gills.

[edit on 6-1-2008 by merka]


reply posted on 6-1-2008 @ 09:23 AM by neformore
Nice subject

Have a look at this;

Bloop

Theres some weird stuff down there I think



reply posted on 6-1-2008 @ 03:56 PM by Umbra Sideralis
Originally posted by neformore
Nice subject

Have a look at this;

Bloop

Theres some weird stuff down there I think


I think it was "debunked" that the bloop storys are in fact a viral campaign for the movie Cloverfield!But i may be wrong...

Cloverfield trailer & info
See also this ATS topics:

Bloop, viral campaign1?

Bloop, viral campaign 2?



[edit on 6/1/08 by Umbra Sideralis]


reply posted on 7-1-2008 @ 12:47 AM by carpenoctem
What lurks deep in the ocean? I dont think there is an answer to that question. Sure there are Giants, but there are also Ancients. THe discovery of a Ceolocanth was an astonishing blow to science along with the Megamouth shark.
in 2007, The crew of Monster Quest captured a record breaking new squid on video. found in the following link
www.youtube.com...
the quality is rather poor, but it's the only one on Youtube. the experts are saying that if this thing is a Humboldt squid, it is the size of an Architeuthis (giant squid) and if it is an Architeuthis, it is the size of the largest known animal in existence, the Blue whale.

Another amazing discovery in 2007, was of the Frilled Shark. another ancient species. The video can be found here
www.youtube.com...
I wouldn't recommend the video to animal lovers, because shortly after the video was taken, the shark died.
there is also another completely unknown shark filmed in late 2006. here is the video.
www.youtube.com...
The video is in Japanese. The shark was filmed in the Mariana Trench. Many people say this thing is a Greenland shark, But this doesn't add up too well.
As for another amazingly unknown oceanic phenomena, was "bloop". A sound picked up multiple times in 1997. It hasn't been heard since then. here is an article. Unfortunately, due to vandals, the article has been reduced to a mere stub.
en.wikipedia.org...
The sound was emitted over 4800 km. away from where it was picked up by sensors under the ocean used to record soviet submarines.
TRIVIA: the sound was located amazingly close to where the Nightmare Corpse city of R'lyeh is supposedly locatde according to H.P Lovecraft. this of course, it complete fiction. The location in relation to the lost city is completely coincidental. The origin of Bloop, is still unknown. to hear Bloop as close as it would have sounded from the emission point, thanks to Bloopwatch.com, we have the Clip from NOAA, slowed down 16 times.
this clip has noise reduction applied, and is a rather large file (2.5 MEGS )
www.bloopwatch.org...

So the Ocean has so many undiscovered mysteries about it, and some of them, it's only a matter of time before they are discovered.

Imagine what we'll find next.


reply posted on 10-3-2008 @ 10:50 PM by Buck Division
I just finished reading "Descent", by Brad Matsen, which chronicles the Bathysphere adventures of William Bebe and Otis Barton.

These two men descended half a mile into the ocean, supported only by a thin cable. Prior to that, the deepest any human had ever traveled beneath the ocean was a mere 300 feet, using heavy diving gear.

The bathysphere itself was a small spherical craft with only a five-foot internal diameter, cramped for one person, and nearly intolerable for two. The maximum depth was limited by the enormous weight of cable overhead, needed to drag the fortified sphere up from the crushing ocean depth. For anyone suffering from claustrophobia, it must have been a nightmare, to be locked in the Bathysphere for hours, lowered to alien depths, unknown to any living human, in utter blackness of the deep.

During these various dives, Bebe reported in detail various new species, and first observed bio-luminescence in fish. Some of these species of fish have never been seen since. To help find financing, Bebe and Barton actually made a live national radio broadcast, via a phone link, sponsored by the newly formed “National Geographic Society”, founded by Alexander Graham Bell.

The year of this record setting adventure: 1932. The record was unmatched for nearly 15 years.

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In 1960, the Bathyscape “Trieste” reached the deepest point on the earth's surface, the “Challenger Deep”, at more than 35 THOUSAND feet. In doing so, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh became the only humans ever to travel to that extreme depth.

No living human has ever returned to that abysmal depth again, even 48 years later.

Edit: Fix spelling ("Descent" includes an "s", go figure...)

[edit on 10-3-2008 by Buck Division]


reply posted on 10-3-2008 @ 11:16 PM by theendisnear69
reply to post by jkrog08



I believe that there is a whole new different type of marine life in the deepest parts of the ocean. Everytime somebody explores the deep they find a new species of sea creatures. And to live at those depths the creatures are probably very odd looking.

There has to be huge prehistoric monsters down there, if they are away from everything I highly doubt that they would go extinct, it would be much easier for them to survive than any land dwelling dinosaurs.


reply posted on 10-3-2008 @ 11:50 PM by Eagle1229
As Seiju says " Its'a the metabolism stupid" well Seiju actually says Boa's and Anaconda's only need to eat once every month or so.. C Megladon can grow to enourmous size as long as its metabolism is miniscule, keeping its food sources from being depleted.

A video of a six gill shark
www.vanaqua.org...
another in my neck of the woods
www.scienceblog.com...
This six-gill shark (Hexanchus) was filmed during a submersible dive off the northeast coast of Molokai at a depth of 1000m (3280ft). The 2 red laser dots are 6 inches apart, resulting in a length of about 18 ft for the shark.
Great ecstatic live commentary by University of Hawaii Oceanography Professor Jeff Drazen!
Many thanks to Dr. Craig Smith (University of Hawaii) and Dr. Eric Vetter for permitting release of this footage which was obtained as part of their research data set"

C. Megladon is rumored to be over 50 feet long
Estimating the maximum size of C. megalodon is a highly controversial subject. However, in 1996 three shark experts, M. D. Gottfried, Leonard Compagno and S.C. Bowman, tried to solve this issue by developing a special method for measuring the size of sharks (including megalodon) with much greater accuracy, which was published in 1996. a[›] Using this new method, the maximum size of this creature was calculated to be 15.9 metres (52 ft) long with a body mass of more than 40 tons.[9] But this calculation was based on a 168 mm (6.61 inch) long upper anterior tooth, which was the biggest tooth in the possession of these shark experts at the time. Since then, even larger C. megalodon teeth have been excavated which indicate that this creature could actually grow to more than 17 metres (56 ft) long.


By eagle1229 at 2008-03-10

Megalodon tooth from the Miocene era. Dimensions: 13 cm (5.1") straight, 18 cm (7.1")
in diagonal.





As far as Krakens they are two or three species larger than Colossus squids.
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