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30 Of The Most Creepy Or Weird Things People Witnessed In Oceans, As Shared In This Online Group
The ocean is a mysterious place as so much of it is still unexplored because it is so vast and goes down so deep that it is very dark, cold and the pressure is crushing. Maybe the uncertainty about what is down there makes people a bit nervous when they are in the middle of the ocean even if the water is calm and they can’t hear anything.
But it’s not always just calm and those who regularly venture out further from the shore witness various things. People had many stories to tell when redditor icefalls asked “Dear Deep Sea Fishers of Reddit, What's the strangest thing you've seen / heard on the open ocean?” In addition to fishers, Navy officers, divers, swimmers, sailors and people who have boats and like to sail also shared what surprised them or scared them.
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#1
My dad and I were fishing off the florida keys, we had our anchor out and been fishing for about an hour. 15 minutes later the boat gets bumped and we rock a little bit, my dad jokes saying "looks like jaws is after us better stay away from the edges.". 10 seconds after him saying that the boat begins moving backwards, we are being towed, by our anchor line that's in the water. Whatever has it is now dragging the boat backwards slowly getting faster and our boat get pulled under too. next thing I hear is "no f*****g way" as my dad drops his pole runs from the front to the back grabs a knife and cuts the anchor line, after that we decided that fishing was not in the cards that day.
Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago
They were probably not getting towed by a mackerel :p
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Cecily Holland 3 years ago
Submarines will do this and the Navy are utter jerks about owning up. It took the UK a YEAR to own up to sinking the Antares killing all the crew in the 1990s. Several trawlers from the UK and Europe have been towed backwards by subs. Not once have these sub crews surfaced when they knew they hit something and checked on the crews except for the Russians
Izzy Curer 3 years ago
That makes sense. I was trying to wrap my head around how an animal could grab the anchor and then pull it farther down when the anchor was presumably already sitting on the bottom. But if something like a sub snagged the line in the middle...
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Marco Conti 3 years ago
Orcas (killer whales) do that. There is a pod off the coast of Gibraltar that attacks ships and chews up their rudder. Plenty of YT videos about this pod. A solitary individual may do the same. Maybe he figured that was his/her territory and was moving you out of there.
Rijkærd 3 years ago
Chews up the rudder??? Is the rudder made of rubber??
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Rijkærd 3 years ago
Please don't. I loved Alberto Scorfano. He was the life of that movie...i think theres a Bruno talking somewhere soooo Silenzio Bruno!!! But the little mischievous Giuseppe would grow up to do such kind of stuff
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Summer Mason 3 years ago
Yup. Florida keys for ya. Ever been to hammer head reef? One giant fking hammer head lives there year round and he is terrifying to come into contact with him. Creepiest thing I've come into contact living there was having a barracuda face me face to face while spear fishing off of marathon key. I about s**t myself.
Many stories in this list have to do with people getting scared of big and dangerous fish like manta rays or sharks. So Bored Panda reached out to Les Kaufman, a professor of biology at Boston University whose areas of interest include marine biology, evolutionary ecology, and conservation biology, to ask how often do sea animals actually attack people.
He says that happens very rarely. The professor shares that he knows just one scientist who was attacked by a leopard seal in Antarctica while snorkelling. He also adds “Shark attacks on divers do happen on rare occasions but are usually provoked. More a specialty of surfers.”
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#2
I had a friend who would go deep sea fishing and stay out at sea for days at a time. He told me that at times he would hear some of the most bizarre, unearthly noises ever out there at night and assured me that there must be things out there we have no idea of.
Considering we apparently know more about what's on the moon than we know about what's in our own oceans, I'm inclined to agree with him.
Summer Mason 3 years ago (edited)
Makes me wonder if he heard whales talking among themselves
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Randolph Croft 3 years ago
Depending on which ocean and what time of year, some 'aqua-mammals' will make noise on the surface, but miles away. Sound carries weirdly over large distances at sea. I served for years on a destroyer and at night, without a moon, sometimes we thought there were ghosts out there. And I don't believe in ghosts. Doesn't mean they don't exist, though.
Ikonye St. Jude 3 years ago
Who needs ghosts when you have 'aqua-mammals'?
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Joe Reaves 3 years ago
Or there are things out there we do know about but have no idea they make those sounds. In the Cold War the Scandinavians spent ages chasing what they thought were Russian subs based on weird sounds they were picking up and it turned out to be shoals of herring, farting.
SomePeopleCallMeMaurice 3 years ago
I read an article in Smithsonian magazine, about a woman, whose last name was, ironically, Fish, who pioneered the study of sounds in the ocean. She began the pursuit after WWII, when submarines had reported some strange and terrifying sounds they heard undersea, that had them frightened and confused about the origins of the sound. Here’s a link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/biologist-marie-fish-catalogued-sounds-ocean-world-hear-180977152/
Shadow the Dragon King 1 year ago
The demonic shrieks they make are definitely terrifying enough
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A couple that are friends with my parents sailed from france to Africa than to south america. They also didnt have all the proper equipment you are supposed to have in order to do this legally and as safe as possible. They were a week or two away from the end of their trip when they confirmed their feeling of not being alone. At night they'd think they'd hear another ship but no sight of anything. They'd hear water breaking from something but never saw why. this continued and seemed to be getting closer. Then just a few days before the end of their trip an american submarine suddenly surfaced near them. It stayed a float for awhile than went back under.
His theory was since they didnt have a proper sat radio they weren't aware they were being hailed to identify. The american navy was probably like wtf is this and kept track of them or even followed them for days/weeks. At the end the americans were probably even more curious, surfaced, saw a bewildered sun burnt french sailing couple, cursed and went back to doing whatever they were supposed to be doing
Randolph Croft 3 years ago
This is fairly routine in certain areas off the main sea-lanes. They're watching out for smugglers.
Dave P 3 years ago
Yup, lots of criminal activities use those types of boats, so if they dont get a reply, they shadow it to make sure it isnt anything illegal.
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Nolgoth 3 years ago
As a former submariner i can assure you that when going to periscope depth and surfacing a submarine does not "hail" anyone. Also, unless your engine was off, they know exactly who you are and where. Before surfacing the boat will be at periscope depth checking out the surrounding area. Ships are supposed to have running lights on at all times so unless visibility was low they were seen. Also, everyone runs a radar. My job was to listen for those at pd. I am able to tell you everything about it based on sound profile and signal parameters plus in what direction it is coming from and approximately how close. Surface contacts dont just surprise an american submarine like this poster thinks.l
Sophie Luff 3 years ago
You'll probably appreciate my Sub story then. Late 80's, we did a lot of sailing off the west coast of Scotland, motoring along between all the isles, when we see a frigate trolling up and down the straits near us. We go one way round an island, they go the other. Dad's ex merchant navy, so seen and heard plenty, and decided to do a depth check, he doesn't tell me his suspicions, I was about 10 at the time. He checked the chart should be a couple of hundred feet below us. Does a sonar ping, we had about 50 feet below us. Next ting we get a friggin nuclear sub surface off out port side and get a salute! We just won a subhunter game! No idea if British or American sub, I just remember the size of the conn tower being massive compared to our 32ft yacht. I know that subs routinely use passing water traffic to hide themselves in the engine noise to evade detection. But the idea that my dad pinged a sub is epic! One of my favourite memories. Do have one question though. Does the whole sub really ring like a bell when you are pinged by sonar like it showed in "The Hunt for Red October"?
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Queen Mab 3 years ago (edited)
My sister and I were on a ferry going from Seattle to Victoria B.C. We were on Puget Sound somewhere when we looked out the window and saw to out astonishment a surfaced submarine coming toward us on its way to Banger sub base. It was sinister looking, looming out of the fog. It was thrilling to see. A one-time sighting..
Bec Jac 3 years ago
Are you speaking of a specific case? My husband was on a sub that sunk a trawler...
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Brandy Grote 3 years ago
What they were "supposed to be doing" is exactly what they did - identify any threats in American waters. The couple might have been further north than they thought, in waters where military maneuvers were going on, or it was a private escort for idiots.
Dr. Les Kaufman gets into more details of why he specifically mentions surfers, “Surfers paddling out to catch a wave can, seen from below, be mistaken for a seal by a great white shark.” But he also says that a shark quickly realises its mistake, “after one experimental bite they most often realise the error in that there isn’t much blubber on the intended prey, and they let go. They also do this with their prey so they bleed to death and weaken. Unfortunately, once the shark realises the mistake it may be too late for the person.”
Other than that sharks don’t attack people unprovoked and that the white shark attacking surfers is an unusual exception as most often animals “have no difficulty distinguishing people from other wildlife.”
#4
My dad, who is as rational of a scientist as you can possibly be, has experienced very vivid hallucinations that he truly believed were real at the time. His friend's family had sold a sailboat to a buyer up the eastern seaboard. So my dad and his friend, young amateur sailors, decided to sail the boat up the coast and deliver it. This was in the late '70s or early '80s, so I guess they didn't have the 24/7 crack news team of the Weather Channel telling them what was coming. Apparently, a tropical storm was coming and they had no idea. It caught them when they were some ways from shore, with no exact idea of where they were. They had to just ride it out because going inshore in a storm like that was too risky when you didn't know the waters. They didn't sleep for several days while they had to fight tooth and nail to keep the boat above water. During that time, my dad says he saw all kinds of s**t in the ocean. Mermaids, the souls of the damned, you name it. Really shows you where all those old sailors' tales come from.
Sheila Okanga 3 years ago
If you insist. Sometimes the 'Veils' just drop!
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Mária Dusová 3 years ago
When I competed in long endurance races I´ve hallucinated hard. After 30 hours of walking and no sleep I´ve seen big animals in woods, people hanging from the trees and other stuff. I remember how real it was.
Mazer 3 years ago
Darn lucky he lived through it, those Eastern seaboard storms are nothing to mess with…onshore or offshore
Sofia Gonzalez 3 years ago
You never know, maybe some of it was real, maybe some of it was lack of sleep
Liliana Werekeitzen 3 years ago
Why can he just tell us about what they saw, not go on detail about how they got there
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Thankfully he didn't get lured in by a Siren's song or anything! Geez!
#5
I was sitting in a little boat off Gran Canaria once, when I heard a strange whirring noise, like when kids stick playing cards through the spokes on their bike. I heard it a few times and wondered what it was. And then it hit me! It was a flying fish.
It literally hit me, and then floundered around the boat for a few seconds before I picked it up and hurled it back. Those things are goddamned weird. It's wings were gross.
Cecily Holland 3 years ago
One of those jerks cost me 6 stitches. Their “wings” are razor sharp at high speed
Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago
What - really?! Omg, talk about a random injury!
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Kassiopeia 3 years ago
Probably the best snack for cats: both bird and fish
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Mazer 3 years ago
Love them. They chill off the waters of Southern California. Trips to the Channel Islands is usually gifted by their feats of flying.
Dorothy Parker 3 years ago
Catalina Island has night boat rides just to see the flying fish. Absolutely wonderful.
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I'm a diver. We were doing a night dive on the Great Barrier Reef when we came up to a cave like structure (really just a rock formation) which is known for turtles. We shine our flashlights inside and see these huge f*****g flippers. In there was a 100 year old turtle about the size of a small car (in diameter). This isn't anything like the supernatural stories that you were probably after but I found it very strange.
EDIT: We knew the age because we were told beforehand that there was a large 100 year old turtle in the area. We weren't expecting anything as big as we saw, however.
Kate 3 years ago
Saw one once on a whale watching trip, confirmed by a marine biologist nearby. Looked like a Volkswagen bobbing at the surface for a minute.
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Ragnhild Nilsen 3 years ago
Turtles and tortoises aren't the same thing! This picture is of a tortoise on land, and the story is of a turtle in the ocean.
Gin. No tonic 3 years ago
The editors are Lithuanian. In our language, there's just one word for both: vėžlys (turtle). It took me way too long to understand the difference, and I still forget which is which. And technically, all tortoises are turtles, so if you Google 'turtle' you get both.
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Elita One 3 years ago
BP apparently doesn't know the difference between a turtle and a tortoise.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
americanish. They call turtles 'sea turtles'. I suppose next they'll call seals 'sea dogs' or something because they kinda look like dogs.
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Potato 3 years ago
In my language both turtles and tortoises have the same name; "shield toad".
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
So happy that in my language the word for turtle and tortoise is the same - can everybody please stop freaking out about the "wrong" picture?
ZAPanda 3 years ago
turtle = flippers. tortoise = feet. it's like confusing a seal and a dog.
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Most people are really afraid of sharks but the professor notes that there is really no reason for that and that in general animal creatures are not that dangerous to people as they don’t see them as food, “Very few shark species will attack a human as prey. Even then, it is rare statistically, and there are many ways to avoid becoming a statistic. Other than sharks and leopard seals, there aren’t many animals that people in the ocean need to fear. Leopard seals you can only encounter near Antarctica. The unlikelihood of being attacked by a shark is driven home by the fact that whether you see them or not, they are usually around, decidedly not attacking people.”
The marine biologist also points out a depressing fact, “There are many fewer sharks than there used to be, however, because people have attacked them mercilessly for millenia.” So if we would just look at the numbers, sharks should fear people a lot more than people fear sharks as the professor put it, people “are really dangerous and have been known to regularly attack unprovoked.”
#7
I do a lot of night fishing off of SC and FL. I get a lot of fish that are bitten in half by sharks. Some of them had to have been very, very large. When you reel in a large sportfish's head like some kind of sequel to the old man and the sea and realize the shark is close to half the size of your boat miles and miles offshore, essentially in the middle of nowhere, you get more than a little freaked out.
Randolph Croft 3 years ago
Smallest boat I've been on the ocean in was a destroyer. That's my 'small size limit'.
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Cyndielouwhoo 3 years ago
Hippos definitely kill more people a year than sharks. Apparently mosquitos are considered to be a threat to half the world's population, killing more than 700,000 people a year from diseases they've spread.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Crocs and gators. Sharks aren’t really all that interested in people—the go after surfers because they look like seal pups or something.
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#8
I had a friend who was stranded in a rowboat for a couple of days. He got pretty dehydrated, and later told us of these wild hallucinations of beautiful female water spirits encouraging him to join them in the water. It was strange because he was one of those no-nonsense guys who didn't believe in the supernatural, but he said these things were so real to him.
Bob D. Lin Quint 3 years ago
Right? Just because you don't believe in the paranormal doesn't mean you can't trip balls.
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Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
And those girls went hungry that night, seaweed salad for them again
Jessica Gunn 3 years ago
So this is where the old sailors takes of sirens come from, dehydration
Reese2906Hi 3 years ago
Is it just me wondering how people hallucinating know that it was a hallucination?
Dimitrios Vougioukas 3 years ago
he was probably losing his mind from the dehydration so that is why he was seeing things.
El muerto 3 years ago
dehydration causes hallucinations, if you drink salt water it speeds up dehydration, the body have to use lots of liquid to defuse the salt...never drink salt water
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Omnipanda(she/her) 3 years ago
Niads. Immortal species like mermaid but a LOT meaner. They pull you into the water and drown you for fun. They don’t actually eat you.
#9
I'm not a fisherman but a sailor who was racing in a yacht race off the California coast many years ago. We had finished the race in Santa Barbara, and a few of us had volunteered to sail the boat back up to San Francisco where we had started.
We were off of Point Conception one night at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning. Me and a buddy of mine were on watch and talking to stay awake. He was steering and I was leaning against the doghouse looking aft at him. We talking about something or other when all of a sudden it became daylight. Bright Daylight. All I remember were the saucers of his eyes looking back at me to say, "WTF"!! I imagined I looked the same to him because I was absolutely shocked.
Then in about 2 seconds, the light faded to the horizon on our right, and we witnessed a rocket taking off from Vandenburg Air force Base. We watched it ascend into the night sky, and once we saw that it had jettisoned it's first stage, we started to joke nervously about the odds of it landing on us.
It didn't, and me and my buddy will always remember those 3-4 minutes as one of the most singular experiences we've ever had. We had fun telling the rest of the crew about it the next day. They were pissed that they missed it.
Otter 3 years ago
I saw a rocket take off from Vandenburg once, from a nearby beach! It didn't get bright as day, but there was a huge streak of light in the sky like a giant firework, that formed a cone of light and a new streak, as the first stage was discarded and the second took over. It was awesome.
Alicesmittens 3 years ago
I was stationed at Vandenberg back in the early 80's and my husband, also stationed there, was a missile launch officer/trainer. Hearing first, then seeing a test missile launch was always something we were amazed at. The night launches definitely rumble you awake.
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Michelle 3 years ago
I was lucky enough to be close to a night time launch of space shuttle Atlantis a long time ago. It definitely lights up the sky like it’s daytime. It is an amazing thing to witness, no wonder your crew were jealous.
Donna Crowe 3 years ago
I lived in Orlando 50 miles east of the cape. When the shuttles would come in for landing there would be one or two sonic booms, the # of booms depended on which direction they were landing from - the north or the south. It definitely made you jump.
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Dallas Bryan 3 years ago
I used to rotate working launches at VAFB. We had a scheduled launch but I was off so I went surfing south of the base. Damned if I didn't get kicked out of the water with all the other surfers by Security Forces for "safety". Because rocket parts of failed launches never end up on land LOL
Salty Wild Hair 3 years ago
I lived 3 miles south of the Kennedy Center gate in Merrit Island, FL and witnessed a few night launches like that. From the darkest of night to immediate day, bright as the noon day sun. And the noise and shaking was unbelievable.
As mentioned before, the majority of the ocean is unexplored and there is quite a big chance that people sailing through the ocean and going swimming in the middle of nowhere might have seen sea creatures that are generally unknown.
Dr. Les Kaufman confirms that and tells us “I’ve seen this happen myself. Many fish species are still not known as distinct from their close relatives.”
#10
A friend's cousin is a tuna fisherman. They found a deer swimming over 100 miles off the coast of New Zealand a few years ago.
Bob D. Lin Quint 3 years ago
Imagine being a shark, eating a seal with sticks for fins and coral on it's head, then telling your friends it was like nothing you've ever eaten before. They wouldn't believe him
Mud spider 3 years ago
I saw something similar, it wasn’t on an ocean tho just a huge lake. But the deer was just flailing in the water there it was crazy
Mimi 3 years ago
Deer are pretty strong swimmers, it probably wasn’t stuck: https://beatricedailysun.com/sports/local/odd-places-that-you-may-find-deer/article_6f75d4b6-8bd1-5488-aedb-226f8cde3672.html
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PeaPod 3 years ago
I used to live on a lil island off the coast of NC called Ocracoke & there's pictures from plane & boats of a black bear swimming the divide between Hatteras & Ocracoke..While it wasn't such a long way the currents there are known to be deadlly... extremely! t's where the sound & ocean meet in-between land masses. 2 days later pictures were selling in the shops.. It really was a beautiful site, It's a site to see deer on the beach but black bear is a lil more rare on the beaches. especially braving the graveyard of the Atlantic for a lil island time...now if he swam the other way to SQ mainland from the island that would have been a hump as it's a 3 hour ferry ride!
#11
I was fishing off the coast of malaysia in the middle of the night. Suddenly, the night sky brightened and I saw a bright glowing orb appear to the bow. The orb moved slowly across the sky, leaving a bright yellow trail and seemed to have sparks coming off it for about 20 seconds before disappearing into the night.
After getting back to shore, I learned that it was a retired japanese satellite re entering the atmosphere.
QibliOfTheSandWings 3 years ago
I always wondered what happened to satellites coming back to earth
Robert T 3 years ago
They usually burn up in the atmosphere. A few of the bigger ones make it back to Earth and are horribly dangerous if they come down in a populated area. If they still have control of them, they try to get them into an decreasing orbit that will result in burn up, or coming down in an unpopulated area.
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Melissa Boatman Linebaugh 3 years ago
This actually happened to my husband and daughter. We were sailing in the Bahamas and had anchored for the night watching the stars when both of them nearly screamed and we asked what happened and they swore they saw a supernova. My guess now is that it was some large satellite re-entering the atmosphere. That’s a little bit more of a logical explanation.
Cecily Holland 3 years ago
Better than cluttering up earths orbit with junk. Google the live space junk map. Musk and his Starclunk Junk, China and all their spy gear, The US is one of the biggest offenders
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
Space junk is dangerous for astronauts since orbital speeds are so high that just one tiny screw in orbit can destroy a whole satellite causing it to get damaged and release small parts causing those small parts to break more satellites resulting in a chain reaction that gets deadlier and deadlier
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Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
Returning space junk looks like a slow, multi-colored meteor due to the different materials burning up. Meteors tend to be one-color and faster.
Frank Hayes 3 years ago
Walking one star filled evening I saw a flash that then burned out in the sky. I assumed it could be either a meteor or a satellite burning upon entering the atmosphere. Later on the ten o’clock news it was reported that a U.S. satellite seems to have shut off at the time I saw it. I figured ‘why say anything? They will send someone out and have me point to ‘the exact spot you witnessed it’. Slightly absurd and I disliked how they set those ‘interviews’ up.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Ball lightning? Not to be a spoil sport but the easiest explanation is usually right
#12
We were out at night once, with our lights off because we were admiring a field of bioluminecent stuff that was just stretching for miles around us. Really freaky looking but neat... right up until a shadow twice the size of our boat started coming right towards us....
Draco's Dragonfly 3 years ago
They did not make it out alive, and that's why we will never hear the end of the story... :p
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Monkey Spunk 3 years ago
Had bioluminescence organisms in the Maldives, your footprints would glow in the sand.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I encountered it on Koh Samui in the 1980s, splashing around in the shallows in the wee hours of the morning.
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Ray Martin 3 years ago
Spoiler - the "shadow" would have simply been an area that had no bio-luminescent organisms in it.
The uncertainty of the ocean is the factor that draws some people in and leads others away. But it doesn’t matter what category you put yourself in, it is always interesting to read through some strange and creepy stories from the comfort and safety of your own home.
We would like to know which of these stories you found the strangest so let us know by upovoting them and if you have any of your own, we would like to hear them in the comments!
#13
one was an abandoned boat floating past us in the night
Who Panda 420 3 years ago (edited)
Supposedly this is common too. Especially in the areas around North and South Korea you can find the empty fishing boats of North Korean fishermen and no one knows what happened to them. Just empty silent boats floating by.
RedMarbles 3 years ago
Maybe they got picked up and made it to the South?
Load More Replies... pat hayes 3 years ago
that totally creeps me out....so do sunken ships when viewed from above...dont know why but i go all squishy inside!
Catlady6000 3 years ago
about 20 years ago we were canoeing down the Buffalo river in Tennessee and in the middle of nowhere near any road, street or highway, we floated right over a 1930s pickup truck. Every now and then I have a nightmare about that thing
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Mazer 3 years ago
The photograph is of an old fishing boat called The Point Reyes. It has been grounded for decades in Tomales Bay just north of San Francisco. It was a local and visitors favorite until a photographer without proper permitting or permission accidentally set it on fire, pissing off everyone. The boat still sits there a bit worse for the fire.
#14
Not strangest thing seen or heard, but more...felt. I was spearfishing a wreak off the west coast of Florida and found a neato den of Goliath Grouper each in the 400 lb class. Now these are a protected species so I'm not allowed to shoot them, but going in a little closer to get a good look seemed like a great idea. Now when a goliath grouper feels threatened they can drum their gillplates which creates this underwater boom boom* boom which makes your whole body vibrate. Now imagine like 5 of these bad boys just vibrating the s**t out of this wreak, and I'm in 40 feet of water very aware of that I hold no power down here. I had to wash that wetsuit a little more thoroughly.
Angelar 3 years ago
I'm glad this magnificent species is protected. I don't understand what is there to brag about having caught a huge sized fish, that is the main reason why they were about to go extinct! I think that trend should be analyzed together with cars and guns under "compensation for sense of inadequacy".
Nikole 3 years ago
Agreed! Also, ooo, you made a living thing get a hook in its mouth and then suffocated it in the air. Quite manly. Good on ya.
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Joanna Werman 3 years ago
One of my last times in the ocean I was happily floating on my back when this huge shadow moved past me. Pretty sure it was one of these groupers. It was right next to me. I got out of the water so fast. And hanging out in the ocean wasn't so much fun after that
Lucy Anders 3 years ago
Imagine being an experienced diver and not knowing the difference between wreck and wreak.
Chris Robertson 3 years ago
Not every competent person knows how to spell every word correctly, especially with the decline of book reading and the rise of au8dio-visual information.
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#15
Not deep sea but fishing. About 10 years ago now I was fishing at Coles bay, Australia, there were 4 of us in the ~14ft aluminium boat that day.
We were bottom fishing for flathead in the bay when the weather started cutting up, not wanting to give up so early we decided to do one more drift in near the beach. We were in shallow enough water that you could almost see the bottom.
Quiet fishing occurs for a few minutes when suddenly my rod almost bends completely in two and the line snaps. The same thing happens to my uncle to the right of me. Thinking we're hitting rocks and snagging, my grandad tell my cousin to pull his line up.
Something bites, he manages to pull it up for one or two winds before his line snaps, just enough to pull this things shadow into view.
It was the shadow of a massive sting ray, almost as long as the boat and wide enough to darken the waters around us.
We all went completely silent and watched it swim away. Never seen anything like it before or since. We checked later and the water was only ~15-20ft deep there.
Lari 3 years ago (edited)
So does that mean the stingray now swims around with 3 hooks in it? How horrible!!!
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
Yeah, you’ll notice a lot of large marine life covered in boat scars and dripping in hooks and hook rips etc, it’s annoying as hell.
Load More Replies... Mud spider 3 years ago
I only saw a stingray once, I told the lifeguard and he was like “oh that’s normal and she’s pretty friendly” it wasn’t that big it was about dinner plate sized
Mag Swag 3 years ago
my parents say they once went diving with what seemed like hundreds of them swimming around. i wish i could do the same but i get freaked out when seaweed brushes my leg 🤷🏻♀️
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I was swimming with a young child and we had a raft/ float. For a while she just floated while I pulled her asking passing an area of rocks going from one beach to another. About a third of the way across and I see this huge ray beneath us. We are only in about 8 ft of water. No way to just head to the beach because of the rocks. So I say let's both float and you can climb on my back for a while as I madly head back towards the closest beach. That with a few other experiences made it quite enough for me to stay out of the ocean.
#16
I'm a marine biologist, while at uni I went out to the deep ocean on a scientific cruise. We were trawling about 800 m. Pulled up the catch. I found a hermit crab. What was cool about this was it wasnt in a mollusc shell but was in a hard anemone. The anemone had a bottom part that was hard and hollow perfectly fitted for the crab. On top was two clusters of stingers. It was an awesome little symbiotic relationship in which the anemone gave the hermit crab shelter and protection and the crab presumably moved the anemone to food. Anyway, I tagged and bagged it for another scientist to look at. I never followed what happened with it. I tried to search if it had been discovered. I couldn't find anything. It could have been a unique discovery.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah I’ve grown up seeing stuff like that in qld Australia, the biggest one I saw was fishing as a kid with my mum and one about the size of a large mango had a whole array of life on it. I called it the Ariel crab (it reminded me of Disney cos it was so magic 😂).
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Devil's Advocate 3 years ago (edited)
I thought it was cool so I killed it. Just like when they found the giant squid. Great
Bora Zrinyi 3 years ago
So the poster found something wonderful animal and the first thing what he did was to kill it. :( Congratulation.
Joanna Werman 3 years ago
Living in the Caribbean for 16 years I saw lots of strange crab homes but my favorite was the baby food jar.
kkathleen517 3 years ago
I think what he means is putting it in a bag of water, I hope.
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Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
I mean... You're a marine biologist and you don't know there's something called an Anemone Crab? They have a symbiotic relationship.
Dee 3 years ago
They mentioned ‘while at uni’ so they were studying to be one at the time.
Load More Replies... Candia Lee 3 years ago
So you harvested this unique creature instead of documenting and releasing? Appalling.
Mam cymraeg 3 years ago
U think they wrote a kids book about it lol is there room in the shell for me
#17
I don't fish but when I was in the Navy we parked the ship over the Marianas trench with is like 5 miles deep, and went swimming, I did not see anything but in my mind!!! It's freaky swimming in water that deep..
Nika De Beer 3 years ago
I always get the feeling that something is watching me when i dive that deep...
Naesil 3 years ago
When younger I had no issues with water, but I have developed some kind of fear of deep water over the years, both clear water that you just stare to the abyss, and murky water where you cant see anything so you dont know what is there.
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Cecily Holland 3 years ago
Not keen on deep water that I can’t see in. Probably has a lot to do with coming face to face with a dead cow underwater as a kid. Yuck! Solved the mystery of what happened to the neighbours prize bull though
𝙸'𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚘𝚋!(new account) 3 years ago (edited)
That sounds utterly terrifying!😰 ...WAIT! I made a pun! hahaha!
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
Not Marina's Trench but a really big coral-reef cliff. When you kept your eyes on the coral, it was just really pretty. Then, if you turned and stared out into the hug blue NOTHING.... Holy s**t, creepiest thing and most awesome thing I ever did. So amazing - so totally super-scary.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
Disney portrayed that very well in the Nemo/Dory movies. Good enough experience for me ...
Load More Replies... Rachel Wilson 3 years ago
Especially when we know more about what's on the moon than down there!
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I have always been freaked out by deep trenches since I saw the abyss. And I read a book called The Meg which was pretty cool about a megalodon shark coming up from the trench.
Aeon Flux 3 years ago
Sphere is the book that started freaking me out about the underwater depths.
Load More Replies... AzKhaleesi 3 years ago
For those of you that have seen the movie the Meg, it is derived from a series of books. I highly suggest the books they're great. (way better than the movie) and makes me want to go down there...and not at the same time.
#18
I dive in the open ocean at night a lot while leading something called a blackwater dive. I have seen all sorts of strange life, but certainly one of the creepier encounters (cookie cutter sharks, larval fish, strange squids, schools of mola) was when I watched a spotted dolphin hit a squid and take off. Drifting down from the site of attack was this bright shiny thing. As I looked closer, I realized it was the squid's eyeball that popped out in the attack, starting on a journey sinking 6000 feet below us.
Alias Delfs 3 years ago
Dolphin are a lot like human they get high they hold grudges and most are psychos just like us
Load More Replies... Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
They are like the Vikings of the sea, looking sleek visually while r$&@ing and pillaging. (I’m sorry this is a really bad joke ).
SomePeopleCallMeMaurice 3 years ago
I recently read that dolphins can be vicious and brutal when they attack other sea life. They even torture other animals and kill for sport. These are not my dolphins. Mine are cute and friendly and squeaky.
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Sadly your dolphins live hellish lives in tanks.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
So I just looked up "cookie cutter shark" and they are definitely bizarre and pretty creepy looking.
SomePeopleCallMeMaurice 3 years ago
It could be a big help for bake sales!
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#19
I went deep sea fishing last summer. I don't have an insanely terrifying story or anything, but I have a couple that may entertain. Both happened on the same trip
The first story is that at one point, a teaser line got caught up in the prop shaft. No big deal, the captain (my friends dad) turns off the motors and then a couple of us dive in with goggles. At this point, we were 40-50 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, water depth 150-200 feet. We have a kitchen knife and are trying to cut this insanely tough fishing line off of a circular metal shaft. Being in the water, noticing how clear and blue it was, gave me a sense of awe, but at the same time a sense of fear. I knew that the water was as clear as a swimming pool, yet I still couldn't see the bottom. I couldn't see anything, really, except a gorgeous shade of blue. After a bit, my other buddy wanted to help out with the tangled mess, so I got out and gave him my goggles. While down there, the two guys noticed remoras swimming beneath.
Getting sucked into by one is inadvisable. Basically, the remora began to swim at my friends, so they just got the hell out of there, and the line was already well enough taken care of anyway.
Second story is less intimidating. We had 4 lines out, and one in the middle popped out of the outrigger. The line started flying, and I mean flying out of the reel. My friends and I rushed to pick up the rod so we could land this apparently massive hunk of sea meat, but the line snapped before we even got to the rod. To this day, I'm not 100% sure what sort of fish that was, although my suspicions are that it was a gargantuan king fish
IDK_Something 3 years ago
A remora is a large suckerfish. They sometimes attach themselves to divers, but often are on boats, sharks, turtles, basically anything they can "clean".
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Elise Hansen 3 years ago
not related, but does anyone here read the paragraph in between the posts because *cough*I*cough*sure*cough*don't*cough*
#20
Late to the party etc etc. Not my story but rather my Granddads who was a Chief Engineer on Trawler ships operating out of Hull.
Was fishing at night of the coast of Norway in the 70s I believe when a call came on radio (Worth nothing its was an open secret all the radio operators on the trawlers worked for the government and also had sonar equipment to listen for USSR Subs) to evacuate a 100 or so mile area and if the trawlers could not get there nets up in time to GTFO then they should just cut them free (Which is a very expensive thing to do when you have dozens of miles of nets out in the water). On the way out my granddads trawler and other trawlers in the area saw a massive white flash on the horizon.
After returning to Hull it was discovered a ship called the Gaul had never returned and had lost all radio contact around time of this flash. Fast forward 20 or so years later and the wreckage of the Gaul was discovered and officially sank because of a waste flow pipe being overwhelmed by a massive wave that flooded the lower compartments of the ship and sent her to the bottom. Rather interestingly there was no human remains found on or near the ship nor any equipment food bedding etc and all the windows had been blown outwards along with a hole about 3m across through the middle of the ship with all the metal work being twisted upwards towards the sky. My granddad always insisted up to his death that the sea that night was as still as a pond and that his radio operator was fairly sure the GTFO warning came from the Gaul. As well around the time of the Gauls sinking 16 unknown graves were created and filled in Murmansk, Russia.
Another one of his favourite story's was that one day the engine for hauling in the nets was redlining and came very close to exploding so had to be shut off as they assumed the nets had got stuck on the bottom. A few minutes later a Soviet sub surfaced behind them with the nets stuck to the periscope complete with a bunch of very pissed off soviet sailors armed with guns who unhooked the nets and disappeared back under the water. It was a known tactic that soviet subs tried to sit under the trawlers and use them as cover to get out into the Atlantic hence a lot of the ships having government paid radio operators on board.
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
would have been more believable without "As well around the time of the Gauls sinking 16 unknown graves were created and filled in Murmansk, Russia."
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 3 years ago
Interesting follow up to this here https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-29593306
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Pungent Sauce 3 years ago
The Guardian article I just looked up contradicts a lot of this, (stormy night w 30ft seas, etc), but grandads do like to tell stories.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
I didn't know that about the Soviet subs. I thought that was the most interesting thing about this story to be honest
Brandy Grote 3 years ago
It is believed the Gaul collided with a Soviet sub, causing a huge gash in the trawler. Thus explaining the Soviet graves - sailors on the sub that collided with the trawler.
Sofia Gonzalez 3 years ago
I really wonder what was happening with the Gauls and who were the people who died on it
Steve White 3 years ago
Pretty sure I worked on the Gaul when I was at Brooke Marine in the seventies.
Cecily Holland 3 years ago (edited)
At least they actually surfaced to check on the crew. The UK killed a whole trawler crew, knew they had hit nets and took a year to own up as did the yanks
Rosemary Probert 3 years ago
When you are not even supposed to be in the area you won't surface for anything.
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#21
I do quite a bit of saltwater fishing, and any time I'm on a chartered boat, I ALWAYS ask this question to the captain.
On a blackfin tuna trip out of Key West three years ago, I asked the question, and without thinking...or blinking really, the captain said "A dead elephant in the middle of the ocean."
I'll never forget that. Same captain also told me that while tied behind a shrimp boat not far offshore, his client pulled up a large grouper with a human knee joint (and muscle/flesh) inside its mouth. They went back to shore, and contacted the appropriate authorities to let them know a shrimper had possibly dismembered someone and tossed them into the ocean. Weird stuff.
Bunzilla 3 years ago
"What's the weirdest thing you've seen in the ocean", like all of the other entries in this post are answering.
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Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Some elephants are known to swim. Or perhaps one died on a voyage and they pushed it out to see to save room for cargo? I don't know
Red Pantone 3 years ago
Both seem feasible, but second one just... hits hard, sad and angry :(
Load More Replies... Cayna Louise 3 years ago
Am I the only one who wouldn’t want to eat the fish that had been eating a human. Sounds like cannabilism only one step removed. Too close for me.
Mickie Shea 3 years ago
Noticing the second elephant reminds of the famous pic of the Loch Ness Monster. Perhaps there are elephants who returned to the cool waters and now only the tip of the truck tis visible.
#22
I have been out in the open ocean (no land or other boats around) and the sea was perfectly calm on a clear day. Our boat was only small and it was not moving at all - it was perfectly still, there was no wind, the water surface looked like glass. It was eerie and slightly disturbing. Only comfort was I was not alone and we were not a sailboat.
Evelyn Haskins 3 years ago
"As idle as a painted ship, upon a painted ocean!" The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner -- for you philistines!
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
It can happen low wind. That's why they'd be stuck in a sailboat.
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#23
While on a sailing cruise returning to Miami from the Bahamas I was permitted to pilot the boat while the crew sat down for dinner. I was told to simply follow a certain heading on the compass. As we were going along I noticed the position of the sun was rather rapidly changing as I was chasing the heading on the compass. I returned to what I thought was the correct heading and watched in amazement as the compass began to spin in circles. We had been scuba diving so several of us had compasses and they were all exhibiting the same behavior. The heading on the GPS was unaffected.. After maybe 10-20 seconds the spin slowed to a stop back on the correct heading. The crew logged the coordinates of the anomaly. The best guess we had was that we'd crossed over an old shipwreck, perhaps something hauling a large amount of some magnetic metal over to the Bahamas.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Yes but his explanation makes sense. Any kind of underwater magnetic disturbance could cause it. There's places like that on land too
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Edwin Lesperance 3 years ago
I have come across similar magnetic anomalies on land. Most notably on O`ahu, Hawai`i there is a serious magnetic anomaly on the H-3 expressway as it passes through Haiku Valley. About 100 feet after exiting the mile long Tetsuo Harano Tunnel, my compass began to swing back and forth and finally spin around. This valley was used during WW2 as a LORAN station (long-range radio navigation), and after the war was converted to a Coast Guard OMEGA station. Huge wire antennas stretched across the mouth of the valley, but were removed when the highway opened.
Grady'sRaider 3 years ago
Ive been told that in James Bay, Canada there are some islands that are so heavy with iron, sailing by compass isn't worth much.
#24
My dad owns a fishing boat so we used to go offshore fishing very often when I was younger, I have a few not so creepy stories.
First one was on our trip in the Florida keys, we were maybe 30 miles offshore, no land or other vessels in sight. We were hauling a** away from some a quickly approaching storm cloud when I saw a funnel cloud appear. It was kind of eerie being an 8 year old and seeing this s**t a few thousand feet behind you, knowing that if it got close enough to us and we didn't make it, no one would ever know for a long time and there's nothing we can do about it.
Another time, when I was about ten, we were trolling for fish 40miles or so off the coast of bimini (bahamas) and this large lump floated within a few feet of our boat. It was a dead sea turtle, a pretty big one too. We gaffed it, flipped it over in the water, and there was a huge baseball sized hole through its underside, and it went all the way through its body until it reached its shell area. It was like a neat cylinder had been carved out of its body, and it looked flat black. I don't know if it was just rotting, but it almost looked charred. Turtle also had numerous hooks and cut lines coming out of its mouth, which is pretty normal for dead ones. We set it loose, still no idea what happened to it.
This last story I thought I had dreamt or something until I asked my dad about it recently and he confirmed it. I was around the same age as my last two stories, and we were offshore fishing for mahi pretty much all day. I don't remember if we were on the gulf side or Atlantic side, but the water was seriously deep and blue. We must have been many miles offshore and looking at the sonar I remember it being much deeper than 2000 feet. Anyway, about midday, bored 10 year old me was sitting on the roof of our center console, and I see this dark shape about 20 feet under the surface. It was seriously huge and definitely not a whale or anything. It was man-made, a gigantic a** submarine, and it was RIGHT next to our boat. Like 20 feet away. It stayed next to us for about 60 seconds, then submerged slowly and went on its way. It was so creepy seeing it out in the middle of absolutely nowhere, and knowing that there were people right inside of it.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
I for some stupid reason pictured a submarine version of the movie ‘the miller’s’
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PeaPod 3 years ago
I have a friend who's father and crew were sunk & killed off the coast of SC a few yrs back by water spout. Right b4 it hit, a crew member was taking pics of it off the bow & sent it to family & friends.. other than the spout it looked to be a beautiful day in the water..it was his last communication. Sadly this guys father & crew are still down there somewhere unable to be recovered.. From the looks of the pictures they seemed to think they were ok & not in any danger. These guys were experienced crew & his dad (Capt) had a lifetime of experience..it just goes to show you can't stop mother nature or always predict what she willll do. Mr Magowan was Capt of the lost boat & crew..his first grandson was born a year later..it was heartbreaking to start with but even more so when Coast guard & search & rescue could never find the bodies..
Riley 3 years ago
Anyone have any ideas on what happened to the turtle? 'Cause I'm really curious.
#25
I was on a dive boat off the coast of the Big Island in Hawaii last week. It was after dark and a pod of dolphins was spending a lot of time playing around off our stern. They were pretty interested in us it seemed since every once in a while you could see a head pop up and just sort of look at us for a few seconds.
Pretty much everyone was hanging out on the dive platform on the stern when suddenly this huge manta ray comes right up to the surface about five feet away from the boat. It was easily 10 ft. wide. It did a quick flip and was gone in a few seconds. It wasn't too freaky as we'd been night diving with them a few nights before that. But I could see how someone who wasn't aware of them would get really freaked out. The ocean has a lot of weird stuff in it.
Monkey Spunk 3 years ago (edited)
I had that in Ningaloo, we were out on a reef that sharks (reef) used as a nursing station, was videoing a turtle and see this large shadow out of the corner of my eye and absolutely sh@t myself thinking "shark". Nope bloody manta, glorious thing it was, swam after it videoing before it got fed up with me and just bolted, those things can really move. Oh and it was my birthday that day, best present ever.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I once saw a Manta Ray in the San Francisco Bay, very near Sausalito and the Golden Gate Bridge.
#26
Out off Bermuda back in the 80s or early 90s we saw a huge piece of rocket fuselage or aeroplane floating vertically 5-6 feet out of the water. It was out in the Gulf Stream and was moving quite quickly. This was before Internet so we never knew what it was part of.
Alicia Miller 3 years ago
I know the pic isn't intended to be what the poster saw, but if anyone's interested, that's a Piasecki H21 helicopter. It was nicknamed "the flying banana."
CultOfBambi 3 years ago
Is that the same kind as the Screaming Mimi, from the show Riptide? Looks very similar.
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I was about 40 miles off the coast of the carolinas, and see a watermelon bobbing along in the water next to the boat. So random.
Chris Scritchfield 3 years ago
And that's how we start wars with krakens. Is that what you want a kraken war because you mistook its egg for a watermelon.
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#28
Not a deep sea fisherman, but I was in the Navy. We were a few hours off the coast of Thailand, I was in the hangar bay of the carrier for morning muster and there were trees floating in the ocean. like they had been cut down and thrown in, bobbing right side up with their bare branches sticking out of the water. It was really weird to me.
#29
Back in the 80s I was in the Bahamas, where the water is crystal clear to the bottom and pretty shallow. We were going spearfishing, and had a spotter plane locating the spot, I was on a boat on the bow spotting coral reefs so we would not crash. The plane tips its wings and we find the spot, I look down and there is a World War 2 fighter plane sitting on the sand about 30 feet down. It was surreal. We got in the water with our Hawaiian slings, and attached the boat anchor to one of the wings. The boat pulled the wing up and hundreds of these lobster like creatures scattered across the sea floor, but they had no claws. I snagged about 3 of them and had them for dinner that night.
#30
I do a lot of fishing at night, the weirdest things I've seen / caught are the greater hammerhead sharks. They look downright creepy in person at night.
Valerie G. 3 years ago
I noticed that the beginning of Shark Tank has all of those Hammerhead Sharks swimming. We got to see them while in a glass bottom boat off the Bahamas, and huge tuna and sting rays and manta rays. Spellbound.
#31
Not deep sea..but still ocean, night and creatures.
1985, night time, full moon, off a popular fishing spot called East Point in Darwin, NT. My sister and i are in a decent sized canoe and have paddled out about two k's or so..i'm an idiot trying to half scare her and be brave at the same time. Something bumps the bottoms of the boat, a gradual slow rasp. Hairs all up, s******g bricks. Over the side all we can see is a massive shadow, like one side to the other of the canoe. Fins come out of the water either side of the canoe..panic and paddling ensues, my sis is screaming. I can't, i'm the big bro, but my a** was tightly clenched and i was white with fear. We made it back to shore unscathed and found out it was a Manta Ray
Another time a mate and i swam to a sand bar which took us a good ten minutes to swim to directly out from the beach. We stayed there until the water started coming over our thighs and then bailed back towards land. A minute into the swim back and we spot a decent sized Remora swimming near us..all i could think off was how f*****g big is the shark/crocodile/godzilla it had detached from. The rest of the swim was total fear on my behalf.
Then there was the time when my gf got bitten by a bait fish protecting it eggs at our local swimming hole..
Jaekry 3 years ago
Why are ppl so terrified of remora's? It's it for the remora itself, or the sole indication some big animal (where they usually attach them self too) must be near by?
Me Oh My 3 years ago
That and the potential of the remora attaching itself to you, and the weight of the remora dragging you underwater and drowning you.
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#32
We were deep sea fishing out in a thick fog one morning. Couldn't see more than 10-15 ft out from the boat. Fish bite was sporadic. Very quiet except for the water lapping at the sides of the boat and the occasional sea bird or distant horn. During a particularly quiet moment, these couple of old guys started talking about the large passenger jet that crashed into the water years ago near where we were fishing and how they only recovered a small number of bodies from the hundreds of dead passengers.
Staring down at the calm dark waters and listening to the old guys talk, I couldn't help but imagine the corpses drifting up from the depths and surfacing all around our boat. Imagined seeing the fuselage's silhouette in the fog. Creeped myself out.
Kate 3 years ago
Read an AMA with Bob Ballard once. He said over time, in deep water bodies dissolve, even the bones. But not shoes... so when surveying the Titanic debris field, they'd occasionally see pairs of shoes, just sitting on the bottom there, marking the spot where a passenger or crewman fell.
#33
Oh my time to shine. I was fishing in florida (gulf coast) for grouper that we were going to eat later that evening. So me and a few buds go out to this common wreck that sits on top of a preexisting reef. No luck, but this isnt a problem we will just go out further and go for tuna/dolphin, the fish also known as mahi mahi. So as we head out to this drop off dolphins, the actual marine mammals, start following us in our wake. Now this isn't uncommon whatsoever. I watch them blissfully while the rest of my friends were looking on the charts for where to start our drift. All of the sudden the dolphins are gone. This sort of eerie feeling comes over me and one single smaller dolphin is in our wake. Them a massive column of water erupts from behind us. I see a red cloud where the dolphin would have been. Thats the closest I have ever been to s******g myself. My instinct is to run to my friends and get a f*****g line in the water! They were dismissive but it happened near the drop off anyway do they turn around. They can see the slightly diluted cloud of blood were the dolphin was. We get a line in the water and after 5 minutes it keels over and snaps. We get one with a wire lead in the water and nothing bites. Honestly it was a mako or maybe a great white shark but it was just the strangest thing thats ever happened while I was fishing. Oh and we caught a 75 lb yellowfin that day and it was some of the best fish I have ever eaten.
#34
When i was fishing off the coast of the Australia I saw a man who was also fishing suddenly he jumped in the sea and tries to caught a fish bigger then him. After 10 to 15 minute he caught fish.The fish was too much big. It was about 6.5 or 7 feet long and was very heavy.
#35
Once we hit three kelp balls in a row and caught more fish than I thought possible. I am envious of the stories I hear about times where the boat was too full, but one time it happened.
Thefishtankguy 3 years ago
I would use them for bait to catch Jaws and then jaws’ baby and the megalodon from that movie Meg
#36
I worked on off shore oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico for a number of years. I know I saw a lot of things that were interesting to me, but I don't know about anyone else. The one thing that sticks in my mind right this minute is standing on the empty bow of the barge, 150 miles off of the coast of Louisiana, and seeing a "flight" of huge manta rays swim/fly by below me in a jet-like "V" formation. I think there were maybe 9 of them together, and it was beautiful. So, me being a 19 year old...... I chunked a big piece of metal off the barge at them. A drop of about 90 feet. I didn't hit any, but they peeled off and dove just like a formation of jet fighters going down in an attack. I had no idea they behaved like that. I've never heard of anyone else mentioning seeing it before either. Have any of you?
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
What does being a 19 year old have anything to do with you acting like a jerk?! And you even said they were beautiful. I don't understand people like this.
Cecily Holland 3 years ago
Same here but we didn’t throw crap off the rig we’d have been fired on the spot
Ria C. 3 years ago
We were in the Gulf off the coast of Alabama and my sister and I got to see something similar. We were standing on the beach and our husbands and little brother were tossing a football in the surf between thigh and waist deep , they were in a triangular position. All of the sudden we see a school of stingrays coming in hot in a V formation and when they got close to them they got in a single file line and swam right in between them and once out fanned back out into a V. It was one of the coolest things we have every seen.
#37
My father was a fisherman, and we used to live on the boat with him. When I was about five he put me in a tote full of seawater and then dropped a hagfish in there, so there's that. He also fished with a man who would shoot sharks with rifles.
One of his buddies was trawling off the BC coast back in the 80's, when he snagged something with his net. Despite being under power, whatever he had started towing his boat backwards at about 7 knots. He eventually had to cut his nets with an axe or be dragged out to sea. Probably not godzilla though, locals guess it was a US or Soviet sub being sneaky.
Another fellow trawled up a 2000 year old greek amphorae. (In deep water not far from Tofino.) Museums offered him a bunch for it, but he keep dried flowers in it instead.
KC Lancaster 3 years ago
Putting a child in a tote with a hagfish?! That person's dad was an asshole. Those things are nasty and have been known to bite people. Imagine this thing coming at you as a kid: 6-7-560x42...00df44.jpg 
Thefishtankguy 3 years ago
They curl themselves in a knot for protection, while shedding their nasty slime
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smugdruggler 3 years ago
An amphora is a clay wine jar (amphorae is the plural).
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SilentBob731 3 years ago
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Bird Nerd 3 years ago
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Load More Replies... Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
I know this isn't all that impressive, but I live near the coast, and one day we went down to the beach not long after a bad storm. There was debris still scattered around in the water, though the beaches had been cleaned up some at this point. I was wading when I saw what I thought was a piece of water logged ply wood about the size of a queen bed lying on the bottom, sort of flopping every so often with the waves. I went to go check it out, and I was within inches of it when it suddenly shot away. Massive stingray.
Jane Alexander 3 years ago
I heard the story from both sides how my friend met my brother, but my little brother told it best; He said he was sitting on a rock by the ocean and this guy came walking up out of the sea. Friend Jay was an abalone diver and just happened to surface where my brother was.
Alexandra Grey 3 years ago
Recreation fishermen are regulated down to their boxers. It's the commercial fisheries f*****g over the ocean. At least know who you should be angry with.
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Auntriarch 3 years ago
Because you're an idiot like me. Just before going to bed....
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 3 years ago
so here's today's creepy sea news from our part of the planet: https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/south-africa/western-cape/breaking-pictures-antipolis-wreck-washes-ashore-in-cape-town-after-44-years-21-july-2022/
Auntriarch 3 years ago
There will never be anything to beat the coelacanth
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Philip Malchek 3 years ago
Wish this article had actual photos of these events captured by the people but still intriguing read!
RandomX123 3 years ago
There was an earthquake a few years back (I don't remember where), which caused the ocean water to wash up a couple of humongous dead bodies onto the shore. It was mentioned in our local newspaper too
SilentBob731 3 years ago
One time I caught a fish that was thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big. ;-)
Bird Nerd 3 years ago
I scam more then $12,000 a month online. It’s enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only fap about 11 to 12 hours a week from home. I was amazed how easy it was after I tried it…BAD LUCK.. ===))> 𝐖𝐰𝐰.𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝟐.𝐂𝐨𝐦
Load More Replies... Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
I know this isn't all that impressive, but I live near the coast, and one day we went down to the beach not long after a bad storm. There was debris still scattered around in the water, though the beaches had been cleaned up some at this point. I was wading when I saw what I thought was a piece of water logged ply wood about the size of a queen bed lying on the bottom, sort of flopping every so often with the waves. I went to go check it out, and I was within inches of it when it suddenly shot away. Massive stingray.
Jane Alexander 3 years ago
I heard the story from both sides how my friend met my brother, but my little brother told it best; He said he was sitting on a rock by the ocean and this guy came walking up out of the sea. Friend Jay was an abalone diver and just happened to surface where my brother was.
Alexandra Grey 3 years ago
Recreation fishermen are regulated down to their boxers. It's the commercial fisheries f*****g over the ocean. At least know who you should be angry with.
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 3 years ago
Because you're an idiot like me. Just before going to bed....
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 3 years ago
so here's today's creepy sea news from our part of the planet: https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/south-africa/western-cape/breaking-pictures-antipolis-wreck-washes-ashore-in-cape-town-after-44-years-21-july-2022/
Auntriarch 3 years ago
There will never be anything to beat the coelacanth
Load More Replies... Philip Malchek 3 years ago
Wish this article had actual photos of these events captured by the people but still intriguing read!
RandomX123 3 years ago
There was an earthquake a few years back (I don't remember where), which caused the ocean water to wash up a couple of humongous dead bodies onto the shore. It was mentioned in our local newspaper too
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