Giant sea monster on the loose

[Locke]

Sweet Jesus, thats incredible!

Originally Posted by FoxMulder91

You might want to read this

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/14-ex...e-rediscovered

It has 14 animals that were once though to be extinct that have been refound. Most of these animals are found on land, like I said before we know so little about whats in the ocean.

Most of those would be classified as 'Rats.'

Although, if the Coelacanth can survive I wouldnt put it past the Megalodon, its strange to think that there exists the possibility that something the size of a couple of Busses or a decent sized aircraft could go around undetected, but really, when would we ever come into contact with something like that? Maybe if/when a corpse washes up on shore or something or one gets caught in a fishing net or something, but nothing is killing that thing. Not to mention, the Ocean is a pretty big place, where better to hide something really, really big?

I'd classify the likelihood of the Megalodon surviving as certainly possible, but highly unlikely.

[FoxMulder91]

The Bloop

The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency and extremely powerful underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration several times during the summer of 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown.

The sound, traced to somewhere around 50° S 100° W (South American southwest coast), was detected repeatedly by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array, which uses U.S. Navy equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines. According to the NOAA description, it "rises rapidly in frequency over about one minute and was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors, at a range of over 5,000 km." An often repeated claim is that it matches the audio profile of a living creature[citation needed] though some people say this view is primarily held by cryptozoologists and is not popular among mainstream scientists. If the sound did come from an animal, it would reportedly have to be several times the size of the largest known animal on Earth, the Blue Whale.[1] There are several recorded cases of unknown sounds like the Bloop being picked up by NOAA and thus the Bloop is not a unique phenomenon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop

I believe creatures like this are living in the ocean, likely at the bottom and they rarely if ever come to the surface.

[GreenLantern]

It was just recently that collosal squids were finally found, in tact.. so who knows what else is out there. I imagine the biggest shark in the world has never been seen by the naked eye, 6m is just what has been recorded. I am not saying it is megalodon or anything, but it could just be an even bigger version or species of the shark that got bitten.

Given climate trends as the water temperature changes closer to the surface we will probably see more and more "deep sea creatuers" appearing.. some maybe for the first time.

[Locke]

Haha....some of these PS pics are pretty freaking awesome!

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by FoxMulder91

The Bloop



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop

I believe creatures like this are living in the ocean, likely at the bottom and they rarely if ever come to the surface.

What's the idea here, did one of them fart or something?

If this happened in the summer of 1997 and hasn't been heard since, did the creature die?

[QuadCityImages]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

If this happened in the summer of 1997 and hasn't been heard since, did the creature die?

Its so big it only breathes once every 15 years.

[Dion]

[Jake]

That picture looks photoshopped... a fish bitten in half would have more than just pink muscle revealed.

If I'm wrong about that... sharks commonly attack each other, especially if one is injured. Multiple sharks have been video taped ripping other sharks apart. If it wasn't a shark, an orca whale is also a remote possibility.

The megalodon is extinct. A shark that big would have such high energy requirements that it would have to live in cold-near shore waters of upwelling (area's capable of supporting a lot of life), such as the coast of California, South Africa etc... basically where the great white shark's are found in the highest densities. Someone would have spotted it.

The megalodon could not live in the deep ocean. Meals are few and far between that deep. Most fish found in the deep are sluggish, have weak muscle, and are scavengers or "sit and wait" predators... those characteristics do not match that of a giant great white. Another reason: the deep ocean is too cold. Fish are not warm blooded. The great white is as close to a warm-blooded fish as you get (its called warm bodied, tuna are another example) by virtue of its large size and specialized circulatory adaptations, and has been tracked thousands of feet below the surface, but it still needs to surface periodically to warm.

Simply put: yes, there are probably lots of animals in the deep ocean that we have never seen, but one of them is not the megalodon.

[flylock shox]

Originally Posted by arsenal

That guy should move.

What a dumbass.

[T@T]

[Shnabdabber]

I blame this guy...

[Buzzard]

I have to agree that the picture doesn't look right. I'm thinkin that if a fish like that was damn near bit in half from both sides like that, it wouldnt hold together like it seems to be. The pieces would just rip off. Mind you I imagine the shark has one heluva heavy duty backbone that could hold it together also. I hate photoshop. You cant believe any pictures that are out of the ordinary anymore.

[Tron_fdc]

Pretty sure it's real. I'm just north of Brisbane right now, and it's been all over the news here. Stradbroke island is accessed by a ferry and 4x4 and is pretty sharkey to begin with though, so not many people surf it.

[Hack&Lube]

Has anybody tried Shark sashimi?

Maybe Australian surfers should start wearing chainmail

[Dion]

[Winsor_Pilates]

why is there a Sedin hanging out in the back?

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

why is there a Sedin hanging out in the back?

....seriously?

You're off the team.

[twotoner]

Its those greedy s at Nexecon that unleashed this thing:

"Oil...the quest for it is unrelenting. The search for new reserves of the 'black gold' never-ending and leading the search Nexecon Petroleum and its flagship, the largest drilling and refining platform ever constructed, 'Colossus" located in the freezing North Atlantic waters off the coast of Greenland.

'Colossus' will drill deeper than any rig ever has, a fact that gratifies Nexecon CEO, Peter Brazier, but that has geologists the world over up in arms, concerned that delicate ocean floor fault lines could be disturbed with catastrophic effects. Skeptical news reporter Christen Giddings and her cameraman Jake Thompson are invited by Brazier to document the safety of 'Colossus.'

The powerful drill tears through the seabed, striking a rich oil deposit. As the drill penetrates further, it ruptures a fissure that reveals a second 'mirror' ocean that has existed beneath ours for millions of years. An ocean teeming with prehistoric life. As the choking oil posions the water, the frenzied creatures swarm for the surface. Colossus buckles under the onslaught. Brazier, Christen, and a team of engineers descend in Colossus' glass elevator to assess the damage and come face to face with the most powerful oceanic predator that ever lived. Carcharodon Megalodon. The giant ancestor of the Great White Shark.

This eleven-ton 'killing machine' quickly stakes its territory in the waters surrounding Colossus with disasterous and horrific consequences, destroying and devouring anything in its path.

Now fate will pull them together as they wager their changes of survival against the most fearsome creature that ever dominated the ocean, and pit the technology and machinery of man against beast. Megalodon...sixty feet of prehistoric terror"

http://www.100percentent.com/megalodon.htm

[OutOfTheCube]

I dunno, look at the main picture. The shark that got bit, it's mouth isn't really that much bigger than the bite marks in itself. It looks like it could've easily been the same type of shark, just a bit bigger. If it was some 30 foot long monstrosity wouldn't that shark be, ya know, completely gone?

[driveway]

Other weird stories from the deep:

The Loneliest Whale

For the last 12 years, a single solitary whale whose vocalizations match no known living species has been tracked across the Northeast Pacific. Its wanderings match no known migratory patterns of any living whale species. Its vocalizations have also subtly deepened over the years, indicating that the whale is maturing and ageing. And, during the entire 12 year span that it has been tracked, it has been calling out for contact from others of its own kind.

It has received no answer. Nor will it ever.

The calls were noticed first in 1989, and have been detected and tracked since 1992. No other calls with similar characteristics have been identified in the acoustic data from any hydrophone system in the North Pacific basin. Only one series of these 52-Hz calls has been recorded at a time, with no call overlap, suggesting that a single whale produced the calls. The calls were recorded from August to February with most in December and January. The species producing these calls is unknown. The tracks of the 52-Hz whale were different each year, and varied in length from 708 to 11,062 km with travel speeds ranging from 0.7 to 3.8 km/h. Tracks included (A) meandering over short ranges, (B) predominantly west-to-east movement, and (C) mostly north-to-south travel. These tracks consistently appeared to be unrelated to the presence or movement of other whale species (blue, fin and humpback) monitored year-round with the same hydrophones.

The mystery of the solitary whale has captured the imagination. Hypotheses as to its identity include the possibility that the whale is deaf, that it is a hybrid of two species, or that it is sick or malformed (although unlikely, since it has survived for more than 12 years).

links:
New York Times Article
The original paper
Recording of the 52hz Whale Call