The Deep Sea

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Robbo-92** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:12 pm

The ocean is wonderful yet terrifying at the same time, as the current news story with the Titan sun has shown, granted that sounds like it’s more due to poor planning of everything, but it’s genuinely terrifying how people are just stuck somewhere in the ocean, they might never even be found. Going to give that site a read at some point, looks very interesting.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Moggy** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:13 pm

Knoyleo wrote:Black swallower

Ahh, I see you've met my wife.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Victor Mildew** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:15 pm

Moggy wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:Black swallower

Ahh, I see you've met my wife.

I choose this guy's deep sea diving wife.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Qikz** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 5:35 pm

This is really fascinating. It's a page about the first people to have ever dived to the lowest known point in earths oceans. The Challenger Deep in the Mariana trench.

https://education.nationalgeographic.or ... don-walsh/

This was also from a few years ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48230157

James Cameron has even been down there.

To give you an idea of the pressure, this is how the BBC described it.

"It can withstand the crushing pressure found at the bottom of the ocean: 1,000 bars, which is the equivalent of 50 jumbo jets piled on top of a person."

There's also a long article about the first run with sound extracts from an interview as well https://spectrum.ieee.org/don-walsh-des ... oggle-gdpr

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Curls** » Fri Jun 23, 2023 1:16 am

Any of you into scooba diving? O know it's not the deep sea but I do enjoy my diving to 40m :-)

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **floydfreak** » Sun Jun 25, 2023 10:58 pm

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Preezy** » Mon Jun 26, 2023 7:14 am

It's a cool site but where can I sign the guestbook? 2/10

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Green Gecko** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 4:52 am

Knoyleo wrote:Some of these names are just bullying.

Faceless fish
Sea pig
Dumbo octopus
Flabby whalefish
Zombie worm
Headless chicken fish
Black swallower
Blob fish
Orange roughy
Terrible claw lobster

I noticed some of these too; it was like either someone half arsed the whole thing, or as if they were just wandering through the environment similar to a game like Subnautica, and saying stuff like, "the four eyed penguin shark" or "the wobbly starfish lobster". Or when you just don't know the name of a creature in a game like Zelda, so it's "the wob wob things" or "the fat rock armadillos". None of these are personal examples as of course I know the names of all Zelda enemies...

If you didn't know better they would sound completely made up :lol:

Come to think of it, it sounds reasonable exactly because what else do you think of in the moment to describe something that has never been seen or even conceived of before?

I dunno, it's just some kind of horned snail fish. An undead butterfly shark.

Someone should make a deep sea creature name generator.

Edit: I just got interested in this and here are some fun examples of actual etymological roots:

Crocodile = Pebble Worm

Hippopotamus = River Horse

Penguin = White Head

Albatross = Water Wheel Trough Sea Eagle

Ostrich = Big Sparrow

Muskrat = It Is Red

Tiger = Sharp Object

Leopard = Lion Panther

Python = Rot

Anaconda = Elephant Killer

Panda = Cane Eating Cat Bear

Bonus facts: platypuses were previously known as Duck Moles, and walruses Sea Cows.

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Outrunner** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:44 am

Green Gecko wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:Some of these names are just bullying.
Panda = Cane Eating Cat Bear

I found out recently that the Red Panda was actually given the name "panda" before the Giant Panda and not the other way round like I assumed. Given it's appearance this one makes sense

PostRe: The Deep Sea by **Oblomov Boblomov** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 9:15 am

The deep sea sounds cool until you realise it's just a bunch of barely conscious lifeforms with a bad case of the munchies fumbling around in the dark looking for something to hump and/or fight. The 18-30 lifestyle is a long way behind me, thankyouverymuch.

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