# I love deep ocean life. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484 "2008-10-25T05:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484/1 "2008-10-25T05:46:37Z")
[This is the most interesting picture of Hatchetfish I’ve ever seen.](http://www.wolaver.org/animals/Hatchetfish.jpg) Hatchetfish are just kind of interesting from the side, [in the usual view](http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/islands01/log/sep23/media/hatchet_fish.html), but the head-on perspective from my first link is so much more interesting. [More fascinating mesopelagic and deep pelagic sea life,](http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/midwater.html) including [Dragonfish](http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/dragonfish.JPG) and the [Bathysaurus](http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/Bathysaurus1.jpg) and more very interesting pictures. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484/2 "2008-10-25T06:11:13Z")
Very appropriate for Halloween. You had to know this was coming. [http://www.marianatrench.com/mariana\_trench-biology\_001.htm](http://www.marianatrench.com/mariana_trench-biology_001.htm) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484/3 "2008-10-25T07:05:35Z")
[Something new](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ZJXFzSjdA) every day. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484/4 "2008-10-25T07:12:02Z")
Funny you should mention it, I’ve been a [little obsessed](http://flickr.com/photos/winonacookie/2756260834/) with deep ocean fish lately myself. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484/5 "2008-10-25T07:18:54Z")
boom de yada boom de yada (The ocean creeps me out, actually. Sometimes, when I’m in the ocean, I think about what lurks underneath, and I try not to extend my legs too far down.) ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484/6 "2008-10-25T17:02:43Z")
I love vampire squids. Beautiful animal. Majestic. But [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ZQH2Uzpew) gives me chills. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484/7 "2008-10-25T17:15:20Z")
Why is it the deeper you go, the uglier things get? Hmm, I think that statement might apply to a lot of things actually. ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484/8 "2008-10-25T17:16:56Z")
…And I just came across [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_rFoD1oE6U). Eerie and haunting and heart-achingly beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484/9 "2008-10-26T04:13:08Z")
Maybe you love deep ocean life, me, I’ll never sleep again. That is the stuff of nightmare. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484/10 "2008-10-26T10:28:01Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > [Something new](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ZJXFzSjdA) every day. That’s a very cool video. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2008, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-deep-ocean-life/469484/11 "2008-10-26T11:00:12Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > [This is the most interesting picture of Hatchetfish I’ve ever seen.](http://www.wolaver.org/animals/Hatchetfish.jpg) Dear lord, they look like tormented souls ins some mad and twisted vision of purgatory! :eek: Brilliant picture.