Posted on 05/13/2010 5:16:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
STOCKHOLM (AP) - First he thought it was a piece of plastic floating near the shoreline. When he got closer, 73-year-old Kurt Ove Eriksson realized the 12-foot (3.65-meter) serpent-like object was a rare creature from the depths of the ocean.
Marine biologists later determined Eriksson had found a Giant Oarfish — the world's largest bony fish — last seen in Swedish waters about 130 years ago.
"It was very long and shiny," Eriksson told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "It also had whiskers, even though it looked like they had been broken off. And a strange light-pink dorsal fin."
A retired engineer and avid fisherman, Eriksson made the unusual discovery Saturday on his way to his boathouse in Bovallstrand, on Sweden's west coast.
"I've been fishing around here since 1957 and I've never seen anything like it," he said. "But I've seen enough fish to know that it was a deep-water fish."
Eriksson handed over the dead fish to The House of the Sea, an aquarium in the nearby town of Lysekil, where marine expert Roger Jansson said it's being kept pending a decision on what to do with it.
Jansson said the Giant Oarfish can grow up to 36 feet (11 meters), and is believed to live in deep waters. He said the last recorded discovery in Sweden was in 1879.
Sightings of the fish are believed to have inspired tales of sea serpents.
Ugly motha! (I mean the fish, of course. The guy looks pretty normal.)
Looks big enough to cut down the tallest tree in the forest.
NI.
That’s a lotta pickled herring!......gonna tale a looooong jar.............
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We can't call it a "PADDLE FISH" because that name's been used.....
News sure is full of weird stuff of late.
Even Jupiter (Zeus) was demoted (lost a stripe).
What’s next? Will Saturn lose a ring?.............
Reminds me of Clutch Cargo, and his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot. It sucked, though.
Luke 21:11
There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
giant herrings hardly qualify as “great signs.” Now if it were a giant red herring, it might mean something. Wait, that would mean it didn’t mean something...
I was reading an article about some of the fish they are bringing up now in the deep water nets. Seems they are chasing different types of fish now and are going into the really deep areas to catch them, they are bringing up all sorts of cool stuff not normally seen in the nets.
... and in the end of days there shall be a great red herring to fool the people and suspend their thoughts from the American Idol, for a time and times and half a time...............
Eventually someone will tie it to Globulll Warming............
These may indeed be the endtimes, but by that measuring rod every time is. This propensity to burp a bible quote for every little headline is a bit much.
C'mon. When is a time in human history when there weren't "great earthquakes (ring of fire, Japan/California/etc), famines and pestilences in various places (Africa/Mideast/etc), and fearful events and great signs from heaven? (hurricanes/tornadoes/comets/meteors/eclipses)"
Unobservant me didn’t even notice I was talking red herrings with “Red Badger” - cool!
...and behold! a Red Badger shall lead them!.................
Acts 2 (New International Version)
14Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. 15These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! 16No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17” ‘In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
18Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
19I will show wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
20The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
21And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved.’[c]
I use the following as my yard stick for determining between natural phenomena and the coming apocolypse:
"Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!...Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...The dead rising from the grave!...Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"
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