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.

Finding Nemo

[Anonymous Coward]

One of those fish looks like the one in Finding Nemo. The one with the glowing light.

Re:Oops...

[TelcusFreshbreeze]

Good call
Snopes should be the first port of call for anything like this

Re:Misplaced priorities?

[Anonymous Coward]

YOU ARE DENSE

Re:Oops...

[Anonymous Coward]

Bull!

Editors are supposed to double check stories and at the very least look for reputable cross-references before blindly accepting a story and calling it news. This isn't an honest error, it is sheer incompetence.

This is yellow journalism, plain and simple. Even your high school newspaper has higher standards than this.

Two Possibilities

[Rie Beam]

Lesse - if the page is in Russian, but got approved, there are two possibilities:

1) Mike doesn't know Russian, and approved it on summary and purty pictures alone.

OR

2) Mike knows Russian, and is just gullible.

Either way, it says something kinda depressing about the state of /. nowadays.

Does anyone else here watch the Discovery Channel

[logicnazi]

Those aren't particularly weird fish. They may be weird and some of them are fish but this certainly doesn't make them weird fish.

Alot of the things in the water look pretty damn strange but I recognized alot of these animals from science shows and not even ones about deep water fish. While I can't comment about all of them several looked to be the type one might find in fairly shallow water.

So in response to those who said a Tsunami could bring up these fish I have to disagree, it certainly could stir up fish which live close to shore and even throw them on to land. While it isn't going to stir up fish from the deep ocean my guess is that these are all just fish that live near land but people normally don't notice.

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[Tim C]

Just because they tell you they're going to do it doesn't make it right. They don't check grammar, spelling or factual correctness, they have no business calling themselves editors. "Submission vettors" perhaps.

Re:Oops...

[Anonymous Coward]

Those of us who aren't anal retentive buttwads knew what he meant anyway. Dork.

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[letxa2000]

Do you know what a truly thorough documentary expaining both sides to the story is? It's academic work.

And you know what a completely one-sided and biased "documentary" is, like the stuff spewed by Moore? It's called propaganda.