Bizarre Deep Sea Fish Dredged Up By Tsunami

spankfish writes "The following page features numerous great pictures of bizarre and creepy deep-sea creatures which have been dredged up by the recent tsunami and presented by normal divers. Fascinating stuff! The page is in Russian, but it's all about the pictures." Update: 01/15 18:02 GMT by J : As those of you who read the comments have already realized, this is an urban legend.

Oops...

[Guido del Confuso]

They may be weird fish, but they sure didn't wash up on shore from the tsunami! This story just isn't true.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/creature.asp [snopes.com]

Re:Oops...

[Bon bons]

Here [oceans.gov.au] are where the pictures originally came from. As the above poster said the story is not true, but the sealife is real.

Re:Finding Nemo

[isometrick]

The fish in Finding Nemo is an Angler fish [ramseydoran.com].

Site already slow, mirror

[cerberusss]

Pics only:

mirror [cs.hro.nl]

Coincidentally, the third looks like my mother-in-law.

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[Anonymous Coward]

The sealife is real, but a Tsunami couldn't have brought them up. When in the open sea, a Tsunami has an extremely small amplutide but a large period (e.g. a short wave that's very long). You always hear the example of a fisherman on the top of a Tsunami wouldn't even notice. The point is that the wave wouldn't have much effect (if any) on deep water currents, so it wouldn't have bothered these deep sea fish.

Dali

[jazman]

That first one isn't so weird, there's one on Dali's Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory.

Mirrordot

[thesatch]

http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/eb5a5caa966291a2d 52e47608bbdb171/index.html [mirrordot.org]

One thing

[dedazo]

This is obviously a hoax, but if the "editors" understood even the most basic facts about tsunamis (and they have been in the news of late) they'd have known that a tsunami is inconsequential in deep water - it's only until the wave reaches the incline of the shore that it becomes a wall of water. Ergo, no "deep sea creatures" can be "dredged" up, not even bizarre ones.

Otherwise I have to say... PwN3D

How to describe this dupe?

[spudchucker]

DuPe [slashdot.org]

Re:How to describe this dupe?

[Anonymous Coward]

Pictures [oceans.gov.au]

Re:Crab...

[froggero1]

it is not called a Crabtacular spikeouchamus, or "Spiky Ubercrab", it's actual name is a Stone Crab ( Neolithodes sp.) [oceans.gov.au]

Re:Oops...

[levin]

Another page [practicalf...ping.co.uk] that outlines the hoax, figured I'd post it for the hell of it.

Looks like this is a hoax..

[ctid]

Snopes debunks this story [snopes.com] But that's not going to stop me using it to recommend one of my favourite books: A Fish Caught in Time: The Hunt for the Coelacanth, by Samantha Weinberger [amazon.co.uk]. I couldn't put it down and I had to blink back a tear at one point. Not bad for a factual book.

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[ArsenneLupin]

(e.g. a short wave that's very long)

Is that something like a secure Windows system ;-)?

I guess you mean a shallow wave that's very long, or a low-amplitude wave that's very long.

Re:Oops...

[TFGeditor]

If you are close to shore (hence shallow) they wouldn't be "deep sea" creatures.

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[mobby_6kl]

>Editors are supposed to double check stories and at the very least look for reputable cross-references ....

No they're not, from the /. FAQ:

How do you verify the accuracy of Slashdot stories?
We don't. You do. :) If something seems outrageous, we might look for some corroboration, but as a rule, we regard this as the responsibility of the submitter and the audience. This is why it's important to read comments. You might find something that refutes, or supports, the story in the main.

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[Joao]

I guess nobody stoped to think about this one. Tsunamis don't afect the deep sea. At deep sea, a tsunami is only a few centimeters tall (but several kilometers in lengh). You can be on a boat, or diving in the water, and you won't even notice it.