Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The legendary Oarfish

After the emotion of the birth of a brand new volcanic island we have here another amazing history of extremely rare and unexpected sea encounters. Michael Kanzler a fisher from Isla San Marco in Mexico was driving his boat home this Jamuary when suddenly spotted these two huge fishes swimming like sea-snakes on the surface of the sea

The long experienced fisher recognized them as a couple of "Oarfish" a rarely seen specie of fishes which lives in the deep of the ocean. Those "sea-monsters" are the longest bony fishes in the world, reaching the length of 11 metres and have the strange habit of lingering at the surface when sick or dying

He tried to push the fish back into water but everything was useless, the two Oarfish had defintely decided to find their death on the rocks.

You can find all the story and many other pictures in this Forum
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 25, 2009 at 12:50 AM

    that is a huge fish

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  2. AnonymousOctober 26, 2009 at 4:04 AM

    I WANT ONE

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  3. AnonymousMay 4, 2010 at 8:22 AM

    Aaawww I love oarfish
    It's a shame most of the time we see them are when they're dying.

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  4. pharmacySeptember 20, 2011 at 3:34 PM

    Looks like a fish from the dinosaur era, really cool looking fish.

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  5. viagra onlineFebruary 21, 2012 at 9:34 PM

    Oarfishes ar the the main source of almost all sea tales! I can't believe that you saw 2 at the same time!

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