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Sea Monsters

Whether they’re Unknown sharks, prehistoric creature that survive or other giant fishes I just know they’re out there waiting. Is anyone else ferried at the though of sea monsters? I’ve been having nightmares about them since I was a toddler

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by Anonymousreply 97February 2, 2021 12:12 PM

A vast portion of the oceans are still unvisited by man. I believe that there are huge versions of common aquatic creatures. Squid for example. The Kraken legend derives from this. Seamonsters have always fascinated me.

by Anonymousreply 1June 20, 2020 1:34 AM

OP is still traumatized by his dream of Chrissy Metz in a bikini in a municipal swimming pool.

by Anonymousreply 2June 20, 2020 1:41 AM

There would be sea monster carcasses washing up somewhere if they existed.

by Anonymousreply 3June 20, 2020 1:43 AM

Does anybody remember the prologue in one of Herman Melville books where he talks about taking a nap and draping the hand over the edge over the bed... and a monster grabbing it? I'm serious. My edibles are kicking in but I'm going to rabbit hole this.

by Anonymousreply 4June 20, 2020 1:58 AM

I’ve had that feeling in the Gulf swimming in deeper water. Anything could be down there. Me yarbles started to tingling.

by Anonymousreply 5June 20, 2020 2:09 AM
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by Anonymousreply 6June 20, 2020 3:57 AM
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by Anonymousreply 7June 20, 2020 3:59 AM

Don't go near the water!!!

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by Anonymousreply 8June 20, 2020 4:00 AM

Linda Moulton Howe gets to the bottom of the oceans (& other stuff) in her latest YT upload.

Starts around 11:16 =

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by Anonymousreply 9June 20, 2020 4:03 AM

I used to think that there had to be some large undiscovered animals somewhere in the world, but decades later it's seeming unlikely.

by Anonymousreply 10June 20, 2020 4:33 AM

[quote]There would be sea monster carcasses washing up somewhere if they existed.

If they exist below a thermocline in the deep ocean, their dead bodies would not necessarily be able to penetrate that and rise to the surface.

by Anonymousreply 11June 20, 2020 5:16 AM

Does anyone else feel sick while looking at images of prehistoric sea creatures? I think it's a primal fear.

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by Anonymousreply 12June 20, 2020 5:25 AM

"Sigmund, you're through!"

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by Anonymousreply 13June 20, 2020 5:32 AM

I’m on a sea monster diet.

by Anonymousreply 14June 20, 2020 5:45 AM

More images please!

by Anonymousreply 15June 20, 2020 5:50 AM
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by Anonymousreply 16June 20, 2020 6:49 AM
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by Anonymousreply 17June 20, 2020 6:50 AM
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by Anonymousreply 18June 20, 2020 6:51 AM

Sea monsters are cancelled for eating trans women of color!

by Anonymousreply 19June 20, 2020 7:27 AM

"ferried at the though"

what?

by Anonymousreply 20June 20, 2020 7:39 AM

The Mola Mola is freaky!

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by Anonymousreply 21June 20, 2020 8:28 AM

Sea monsters - one of my favorite topics. If anyone can recommend a book, I'd be delighted. I've read a lot about the Loch Ness monster already.

by Anonymousreply 22June 20, 2020 8:46 AM

Yeah cool thread. Thanks for the links guys

by Anonymousreply 23June 20, 2020 10:06 AM

Meet Deep Blue, at 20 feet in length, possibly the largest great white shark existing today.

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by Anonymousreply 24June 20, 2020 11:09 AM

Thanks for your post, R11. I had to look up thermocline and found very interesting articles about oceans.

There are very likely prehistoric-like things living the depths of the oceans, 13,000 feet down and deeper, that we have never seen.

by Anonymousreply 25June 20, 2020 12:21 PM

I prefer Sea Monkeys

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by Anonymousreply 26June 20, 2020 12:32 PM

[quote] Is anyone else ferried at the though of sea monsters?

No, I take my yacht. Who would be caught dead on a ferry?

by Anonymousreply 27June 20, 2020 12:42 PM

If they’re all as lame as the blobfish then I’m not worried.

Stupid goddamn blobfish.

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by Anonymousreply 28June 20, 2020 12:50 PM

R22 Just to be clear. you do know this was a toy, right?

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by Anonymousreply 29June 20, 2020 1:06 PM

[quote]If they exist below a thermocline in the deep ocean, their dead bodies would not necessarily be able to penetrate that and rise to the surface.

Could nuclear blasts alter that?

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by Anonymousreply 30June 20, 2020 1:12 PM

R29 Yes, I do, but for a very long time that was considered to be the definitive image of whatever lives there, if anything actually does. It's an intriguing subject.

by Anonymousreply 31June 20, 2020 1:27 PM

Blasphemy, r29!

by Anonymousreply 32June 20, 2020 1:35 PM

A real life sea monster...Megalodon. And only extinct for a couple of million years. Can you imagine?

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by Anonymousreply 33June 20, 2020 2:09 PM

OP, sea monsters are merely a powerful metaphor for the horrible dangers that lurk everywhere, all through out our lives. If you've not realized that by now, you have not adequately worried about your vulnerability and your mortality. There is a much more anxiety in this world than you have suffered. Yet.

by Anonymousreply 34June 20, 2020 2:16 PM

Everyone’s so awestruck by Megalodon but it was a loser. It had evolved to be so big to hunt whales, but then there was a new girl in town and it was Megalodon that was on the menu. Bye bitch.

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by Anonymousreply 35June 20, 2020 2:35 PM

[quote] A real life sea monster...Megalodon. And only extinct for a couple of million years. Can you imagine?

I CAN imagine!

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by Anonymousreply 36June 20, 2020 3:39 PM

I have always been puzzled by divers who say shit like “sharks must be respected” and “as long as you know that you are entering their world” and “it was a case of mistaken identity”. How does any of this shit help you when you are being attacked?

by Anonymousreply 37June 20, 2020 4:34 PM

The CREEPSHOW 2019 series has a Loch Ness Monster episode designed by Tom Savini.

by Anonymousreply 38June 20, 2020 5:05 PM

Sea "monsters" are merely the usual suspects. Giant squid, rays...

by Anonymousreply 39June 20, 2020 9:43 PM

I believe that creatures like the Loch Ness Monster and Champ, are primitive Snake Necked Turtles.

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by Anonymousreply 40June 20, 2020 10:57 PM

This picture was in a book I read as a kid. It might have been Time Life's Mysteries of the Unexplained. I was terrified of it.

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by Anonymousreply 41June 20, 2020 11:04 PM

This terrifying creature was the source of many sea monster myths, until everyone realized it just wanted a little rub.

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by Anonymousreply 42June 20, 2020 11:25 PM

Part 1

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by Anonymousreply 43June 21, 2020 12:05 AM

Part 2

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by Anonymousreply 44June 21, 2020 12:06 AM

[quote]It had evolved to be so big to hunt whales, but then there was a new girl in town

The LindaLavinodon?

by Anonymousreply 45June 21, 2020 2:36 AM

My uncle has a theory that Chessie (the Chesapeake Bay's version of the Loch Ness Monster) is really just manatee sightings that have ventured north from Florida. He's probably right, the water's probably getting too warm for them down south thanks to global warming.

by Anonymousreply 46June 21, 2020 2:42 AM

Oh god, I do believe the beast whose name starts with a D is here.

by Anonymousreply 47June 21, 2020 2:46 AM

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by Anonymousreply 48June 21, 2020 2:48 AM

I'm more terrified by rogue waves that are very real and happening all the time on seas around the world.

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by Anonymousreply 49June 21, 2020 2:54 AM

We can also find comfort in our sea monsters (or at least in our Greenland sharks). This is one of the best pieces of writing I’ve read over the past couple of months.

[quote] In​ 1606 a devastating pestilence swept through London; the dying were boarded up in their homes with their families, and a decree went out that the theatres, the bear-baiting yards and the brothels be closed. It was then that Shakespeare wrote one of his very few references to the plague, catching at our precarity: ‘The dead man’s knell/Is there scarce asked for who, and good men’s lives/Expire before the flowers in their caps/Dying or ere they sicken.’ As he wrote, a Greenland shark who is still alive today swam untroubled through the waters of the northern seas. Its parents would have been old enough to have lived alongside Dante; its great-great-grandparents alongside Julius Caesar. For thousands of years Greenland sharks have swum in silence, as above them the world has burned, rebuilt, burned again.

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by Anonymousreply 50June 21, 2020 2:57 AM

Brandon Flynn loves himself sea monsters.

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by Anonymousreply 51June 21, 2020 3:02 AM

I watch a show on Greenland sharks. Apparently they pickle and ferment them. Its a Greenland speciality. Hakarl it's called. Fascinating sharks.

by Anonymousreply 52June 21, 2020 3:02 AM

Big fluffy mystery sea kitties!

by Anonymousreply 53June 21, 2020 3:11 AM

Was it a Greenland shark that pair of asshole Norwegian men (or Danish or Icelandish) were torturing on Youtube? The shark was apparently hundreds of years old and those idiots were making fun of it. It made me furious.

by Anonymousreply 54June 21, 2020 3:20 AM

No, they were taunting a tuna. They were messing with a marlin. They were sassing a salmon.

by Anonymousreply 55June 21, 2020 5:14 AM

[quote]the water's probably getting too warm for them down south thanks to global warming.

Um, no.

by Anonymousreply 56June 21, 2020 5:35 AM

Sea Monsters vs Space Monsters =

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by Anonymousreply 57June 21, 2020 7:59 AM

As a kid the movie Tentacles scared the crap out of me

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by Anonymousreply 58June 21, 2020 10:21 AM

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by Anonymousreply 59June 21, 2020 10:26 AM

[quote] Sea "monsters" are merely the usual suspects. Giant squid, rays...

Oh please. Rays don’t hurt anyone.

by Anonymousreply 60June 21, 2020 10:50 AM

There goes a narwhal

Here comes a bikini whale!

by Anonymousreply 61June 21, 2020 1:17 PM

bump.

by Anonymousreply 62June 25, 2020 5:17 PM

Some sea monsters have a wonderful sense of humor about it all

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by Anonymousreply 63June 25, 2020 5:33 PM

I surf and when you see dolphins at first, it scares the living crap out of you (they're bigger than you think, are silent and like to get close), then you realize they're dolphins and it's great. This is when you realize you're in a world that you know very little about, and you're a tiny speck. I prefer to surf in murky water, so I don't freak out about dark figures in the water.

by Anonymousreply 64June 25, 2020 9:17 PM

My Scottish relatives have always told me the monsters in the lochs are giant eels, nothing more.

by Anonymousreply 65June 25, 2020 10:27 PM
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by Anonymousreply 66June 26, 2020 1:47 AM

"Sea monsters - one of my favorite topics. If anyone can recommend a book, I'd be delighted. I've read a lot about the Loch Ness monster already."

I would suggest "Monsters of the Sea: The History, Natural History, and Mythology of the Oceans' Most Fantastic Creatures" by Richard Ellis. It's a very interesting books, with a lot of great information. It's where I found out about something called a "Jenny Haniver." It's basically a carcass of some kind of sea creature; sometimes it's parts of carcasses sewn together. It's fashioned into some kind of shape resembling something vaguely humanoid; they've been passed off as mermaids to gullible people. Of course they're hoaxes, but I'd never hear of them before and they're really something to see. You can almost believe, looking at one, that it is some kind of strange sea monster.

by Anonymousreply 67June 26, 2020 1:59 AM

Yes that was very good R50.

by Anonymousreply 68June 26, 2020 2:32 AM

R67 That's the very book I've been eyeing. Thanks for the info, I'll order that one.

by Anonymousreply 69June 26, 2020 10:00 AM

FYI: These bitches are still alive today.

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by Anonymousreply 70June 26, 2020 6:11 PM

Has anyone on here been to the web site

mentioned at the end of R44?

by Anonymousreply 71June 27, 2020 3:27 AM

"I’ve been having nightmares about them [sea monsters] since I was a toddler "

Funny thing, I've been having nightmares about lava and volcanoes since I was a kid, but I love volcanoes in real life. I climb them, I love thermal basins and geyers, I've flown over lava lakes in craters and poked around live lava flows! But even though I love vulcanism, my subconscious still uses them as a symbol for something I fear. I wish I knew what.

But I've never had any fear of sea monsters, and I've been swimming (SCUBA diving) with sharks, and had a whale swim under my kayak in Antarctica. Really! I was kayaking on a calm day in a bay on the Antarctic Peninsula, and there were whales all around... and giant bubbles rose up from the deep and popped all around my kayak. I wasn't frightened, I was THRILLED!

by Anonymousreply 72June 27, 2020 6:31 AM

R21: there’s a crustacean called an isopod that’s ubiquitous right around here. 1000 miles from salt water: they’re called sowbugs, and their main defense is curling up into a little ball that ends up looking like a snail shell. It’s just that wet in the midwest. Ghosts of the shallow seas that once covered us.

by Anonymousreply 73June 27, 2020 7:05 AM

Ps: it’s mentioned in your linkt article.

by Anonymousreply 74June 27, 2020 7:06 AM

Paintings and illustrations of sex monsters are terrifying. I know they don't exist but to even imagine something like that is scary as hell.

by Anonymousreply 75June 27, 2020 9:32 PM

Do Greenland sharks ever eat people?

by Anonymousreply 76June 28, 2020 9:46 PM

Greenland sharks live deep down in the sea, so far down that the only way they're ever going to eat a human is if someone attaches weights to a corpse. Lots of weights.

by Anonymousreply 77June 29, 2020 3:07 AM

[quote] illustrations of sex monsters

*Sea* monsters, R75? Or has the thread taken a turn...

by Anonymousreply 78December 2, 2020 3:17 AM

Netflix has a creepy as fuck sea monster movie called Sweetheart.

by Anonymousreply 79December 2, 2020 3:21 AM

Scientists thought the coelacanthhad gone extinct even before the asteroid hit and in 1938 fishermen caught one. You never really know what else is hiding down there.

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by Anonymousreply 80December 2, 2020 3:39 AM

Yeah, the repeated posts of dubious YT videos is a hallmark of the creature know as D Rochelle.

by Anonymousreply 81December 2, 2020 3:40 AM

[quote]Meet Deep Blue, at 20 feet in length, possibly the largest great white shark existing today.

Jesus fuck that is one bigass shark!

by Anonymousreply 82December 2, 2020 5:33 AM

I think it's indisputable that there are numerous life forms that exist in the deepest parts of the ocean that mankind hasn't discovered yet, but as to whether they could be massive enough to qualify as sea monsters I'm not sure. Anything huge enough to be considered 'monstrous' would surely need to have a huge food supply too, so you'd think it's not particularly sustainable purely from a logical perspective.

Fascinating to consider though, considering we have explored relatively little of the world's oceans - around 5% according to one article I just saw (from 2016). 95% of the ocean is unexplored - so what could be living there? Anything!

by Anonymousreply 83December 2, 2020 10:28 AM

Most animals at the bottom of the sea are quite small. That horrible looking angler fish looks fearsome but is too small to do much damage to a human.

by Anonymousreply 84December 2, 2020 7:10 PM

It gives me chills just imaging what an ancient ocean looked like

by Anonymousreply 85December 3, 2020 4:36 AM

Seriously r85. Imagine encountering a Moasasaur and a Tylosaurus!

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by Anonymousreply 86December 3, 2020 4:44 AM

Those days when the Kraken used to attack pirate ships….

by Anonymousreply 87December 3, 2020 6:12 PM

I'm a comin' to get ya!

**chomp** **chomp**

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by Anonymousreply 88December 4, 2020 2:56 AM

There’s the Magical Liopleurodon of Charlie, Let’s Go to Candy Mountain fame.

by Anonymousreply 89December 4, 2020 3:02 AM

A lot of "sea monster" sightings are thought to be Giant Oarfish, a huge eel-like fish that can grow up to 20 feet long. Normally they stay deep in the ocean and have no interaction with humans, but on the rare occasions they come to the surface they can give the classic sea-serpent effect of showing multiple loops of body breaking the surface.

And they have the classic sea monster's dorsal crest.

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by Anonymousreply 90December 4, 2020 10:48 PM

Another video of marine biologist Ocean Ramsey and her team swimming with a Great White Shark believed to be “Deep Blue” about 10 miles off Oahu.

I find this to be totally mesmerizing... the video, the music, the wonderful idea of this amazing creature that migrates from Baja Mexico to Hawaii every 16 months or so and is thought to be about 50 years old.

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by Anonymousreply 91December 5, 2020 1:04 AM

SHHEEE MONSHTERSH!

by Anonymousreply 92December 20, 2020 12:16 AM

I have a fear of oceans and deep water overall.

by Anonymousreply 93December 20, 2020 12:46 AM

I have dreams about telepathic sharks trying to compel me to get close enough to the edge of the boat so they can get me.

by Anonymousreply 94December 20, 2020 1:07 AM

You rang?

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by Anonymousreply 95December 20, 2020 1:47 AM

There are a lot of gross looking sea creatures but no real sea "monsters." Too bad. I think life would be more interesting if they existed. I've always found illustrations of imaginary sex monsters scary as hell. Has there ever really been a great sea monster horror movie ("Jaws" doesn't count; sharks are real)? I'd like to see one with great special effects.

by Anonymousreply 96December 20, 2020 2:33 AM

The question about Greenland sharks attacking people is something I have wondered about. Does anyone know?

by Anonymousreply 97February 2, 2021 12:12 PM
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