Deep Sea Marine Life Pics...

[eleveneastgate]

Here (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19383)

[jsw]

Try this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19383) instead....

[eleveneastgate]

Thanks... JSW!

[stubeeef]

enjoyed that, thanks! I like that stuff.

This had to be from "Nemo"

[jsw]

Very cool pics. Some nice ones with better explanations can be found here (http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/CreatureFeature.htm).

A zip of all the pics in the post liked to above can be gotten here (http://formymac.com/MR/Fish.zip) (better to right click on link and download, as it's a zip file).

[puckhead193]

those are creepy imagine seeing those alive :eek:

[iriejedi]

While I do not give my source 100% credit - I believe the web site that monitors fake posting stated this tsunami kicked up life was a fake deal.

But as a marine fish love I was intrigued - fake or not they are cool!

Of couse my source also claimed that these were in fact released from the space ship that crashed's on board aquarium - the impact caused the Tsunami... god bless the radio!
:p

those are creepy imagine seeing those alive :eek:

[munkle]

Thanks for the link, I love stuff like that...even if some of them might be fake! :)

[srobert]

enjoyed that, thanks! I like that stuff.

This had to be from "Nemo"

Somehow, that one reminds me a lot HR Giger's creatures. O~O

Black teeth... how creepy is that.

[Mr. Anderson]

I've seen a few of those before, but it never ceases to amaze me what there is out there. Sometimes I think we need to worry a little less about finding ET and spend more time looking at our own planet....

D

[munkle]

Too true...it's unbelievable to think that we know more about what's on Mars than we do about what's in our oceans.

[Chappers]

Cool pictures and info on a world we know so little about.

[Eevee]

There is a BBC DVD series call "Blue Planet, the deep sea" and showed these creatures in action! So most are REAL!!!!

Interesting when the researchers dive all the way down pass these creatures, they found a "lake" that was much heavier than salt water. :eek:
Pretty neat!

[srobert]

Interesting when the researchers dive all the way down pass these creatures, they found a "lake" that was much heavier than salt water. :eek:
Pretty neat!

Reminds me of an old G.I.Joe episode.

[wdlove]

Weird looking sea animals. Thought that one of them has eyes that almost look human. There is still a lot of the ocean frontier to explore. Those are just animals that have learned to adapt in unfriendly environments.

[Santaduck]

i find the website itself more interesting-- a place to post images as an inspiration for artists?

[PickledSquirrel]

hmmmmm.. makes me want to address some illegal herbage and revisit BBC's Blue Planet series :D :D :D

-squirrel

[Aeolius]

...they found a "lake" that was much heavier than salt water.

A cold seep. I used one in my undersea D&D game ;)

[jefhatfield]

too cute

[Lacero]

I'm guessing we've only discovered 1% of all total sea life species and maybe 20% of all land-based life forms.

[pdpfilms]

HOLY! Those pictures are obscene!!!! I want to see more.... and more of them living! I love the fact that there's still a part of the earth untouched by humans... unfortunately not for long. Wowser. Cool pictures... coooooool cool pictures.

[MattG]

Creepy!

[jackieonasses]

HOLY! Those pictures are obscene!!!! I want to see more.... and more of them living! I love the fact that there's still a part of the earth untouched by humans... unfortunately not for long. Wowser. Cool pictures... coooooool cool pictures. Too bad almost none of them can live up here... They need pressure to keep there bodies intact.

But Mr. Anderson said it best. There are so many fascinating things- It is unbelievable.

kyle

[PlaceofDis]

I've seen a few of those before, but it never ceases to amaze me what there is out there. Sometimes I think we need to worry a little less about finding ET and spend more time looking at our own planet....

D

Very true Mr. A, and to think all that we haven't discovered on this planet, and think about the universe as a whole, and what we have yet to discover....the former is mind-boggleing in itself

anyone remember seaquest? i thought that show was cool when i was growing up, i wish there were more initiatives to explore underseas....

[parrothead]

As a marine biologist, I can tell you for certain that they are all very real. The email sent around saying they washed up in the tsunami was a hoax though. Those fish live hundreds or even thousands of feet below the surface. For them to was up in the tsunami, it would have had to have been 1000's of feet high.

There are so many incredible creatures to be found in the ocean. Even in shallow water there are creatures that look like they could be from another planet.

[Lacero]

Anybody see The Life Aquatic with Bill Murray? Some of those aquarium creatures were fake 3D computer generated fishes.

[cr2sh]

God.. those photos are so creepy. I can't imagine holding something like that, I'd be affraid it attack me, dig its way into my chest and shove its tenatacles into my brain.. HELP! HELP!

[Eevee]

Reminds me of an old G.I.Joe episode.

Flash back!! Yes I remember that G.I Joe episode. That's when both the Joes and Cobras were trying to fight the tube worms. Guess we are really old. :eek:

munkle, you're correct...we do know more about Mars than the Deep!

parrothead, you're also correct. They couldn't have been washed up in the tsunami. The pressure down there is so great that they "pop" when reached to the surface. Special high pressured equipments are needed to collect them from the deep and bring them to the surface.

One question I have about the ocean is from Finding Nemo. It's about the East Australian Current, or EAC. Does this actually exist? For instance, is it formed by the mixture of warm and cold water? Or is this just a Disney thing.

[parrothead]

One question I have about the ocean is from Finding Nemo. It's about the East Australian Current, or EAC. Does this actually exist? For instance, is it formed by the mixture of warm and cold water? Or is this just a Disney thing.


I am not positive, but I am pretty sure the EAC is real. It would be much like the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic. That runs from the Caribbean to the British Isles. I dont know how major currents like that are formed, I would have to ask my coworkers involved in oceanography about that.