Oarfish Video

Ran across this video tonight and thought I would share. Claims to be the only video of a live Oarfish. (my apologies if dupe, I didnt see similar when I searched).

Oarfish Vid

Amazing video.. Thanks for the post.

That thing is huge. I hope it didn't die. I thought they said they only come to shallow water when they are ill or dying.

Yeah, looks to be sick/dieing anyway. I would expect an animal of that size to be a bit harder for a guy to control while in water anyway.

reply to post by Schleprock


The guy holding the head has a blue snorkel with an orange top. Typical with an excursion. The guy is certainly not an expert in deep sea life but can make the assumption a fish on it's side and not fighting back with that size is dieing. Sadly I agree with that dude.. The fish probably died.

[edit on 13-2-2009 by etombo]

More oarfish pics etc.

Anaconda style photo

Swimming verticle video

Guess with these others, that first one wasnt the 'only video' afterall.

The US navy was the first to capture on on video alive.
www.nmfs.noaa.gov...

I am pretty sure this is there video.
www.youtube.com...

reply to post by lordtyp0


WOW!

My dad and I came across one of those in NEWPORT beach CA back in the early 90's.

It was big, dead and stinky.

Very crazy looking - if that thing was not of the dinosaurs I'll be damned.