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BaiHu
10-15-2013, 03:00 PM
Pretty cool:


Instructors at the Catalina Marine Institute (CIMI) found the carcass of a rare, 18-foot-long oarfish on Sunday afternoon. It was discovered in Toyon Bay on Catalina Island off the coast of California.

The fish appeared to have died from natural causes and its body was "almost perfectly intact," according a news release from CIMI. This is likely because it hadn't been dead long.

The oarfish is the longest known bony fish in the world, though it is rarely observed, especially alive.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/18-foot-oarfish-caught-off-catalina-island-2013-10#ixzz2hp4KjdOQ

Totem Polar
10-15-2013, 03:45 PM
Cool. 3kfeet: that's deep water. :eek:

Shellback
10-15-2013, 03:50 PM
That's a big bugger!

http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/images/kabc/cms_exf_2007/news/9287337_448x252.jpg

JV_
10-15-2013, 04:06 PM
Jeremy Wade needs to branch out to the oceans.

jetfire
10-15-2013, 04:53 PM
I had literally no idea that even existed, but it sure as hell explains a lot of old mariner's tales about sea-serpents.

Chuck Haggard
10-15-2013, 09:45 PM
Amazing video of the live but much smaller fish in the link.