Things that change how I feel about swimming in the ocean.

[Big RR]

Meade and @W--touche.

[Jarlaxle]

in the words of a great American.... Stop it!!!!! now!!!!

I had to leave this place for a few days. the venom being spewed, during Christmas no less, was too much. watching big sky and jim trying to hurt each other was sickening.

blame, or defend, rubato if you want, but it was you two who were horrible. rubato is like the serpent holding the apple out to you. you two are only too happy to gobble the wretched offering down.

if you guys keep it up you ll make meade a very happy man, because I ll be gone from here.

wes

Same here...sick of the incessant bullshit. I'm gone, have a nice life everyone.

[Guinevere]

Jarl - this place is way less contentious and nasty than the U.S. message board place a bunch of you now post. Don't know if it's the holidays or the season or whatever - but do come back when you feel like it. We aren't really *that* bad

[BoSoxGal]

Rare And 'Horrific': Frilled Shark Startles Fishermen In Australia
JANUARY 21, 2015 9:32 PM ET
BILL CHAPPELL


A frilled shark swims in a tank after being found by a fisherman off Japan's coast in 2007. One of the rare creatures was recently caught in Australia, shocking fishermen.

Normally, we wouldn't call something a living fossil. But the name seems tailor-made for the frilled shark, whose roots are traced to 80 million years ago. Its prehistoric origins are obvious in its primitive body; nearly all of the rare animal's closest relatives are long extinct.

In the most recent of those 80 million years, the frilled shark has been scaring the bejeezus out of humans who pull it out of the water to find an animal with rows of needle-like teeth in a gaping mouth at the front of its head.

That's what happened recently off Australia's coast, where a fishing trawler's net snagged a frilled shark.

"It was like a large eel, probably 1.5 meters [about 5 feet] long, and the body was quite different to any other shark I'd ever seen," fisherman David Guillot tells 3AW radio. "The head on it was like something out of a horror movie. It was quite horrific looking."

The catch was announced by the South East Trawl Fishing Industry Association, which said it couldn't find anyone who had ever caught one before.

"It has 300 teeth over 25 rows, so once you're in that mouth, you're not coming out," SETFIA's Simon Boag tells the ABC. "Good for dentists, but it is a freaky thing. I don't think you would want to show it to little children before they went to bed."

Relatively little is known about the frilled shark, whose name refers to its six pairs of gills. The animals are believed to live at depths of between several hundred and several thousand feet. They've rarely been seen in their natural environment, and a rare living specimen, caught in Japan in 2007, died soon after it was put in a large seawater pool.

[rubato]

That's what I'm talkin' about. You wouldn't put your hand in a body of water if you knew those lived in it.





yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

That really is a very primitive looking fish...

[BoSoxGal]

If I had to choose between travel to space and travel to the depths of the ocean (like James Cameron just did), I think I might have to choose the ocean - so many freaky creatures to see!

[oldr_n_wsr]

Now that is a cool looking fish.
They should make that thing the star of Sharknado IV.