Possible Megalodon in Mariana trench

The deepest portion of the Pacific Ocean, the Challenger Deep, is located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific.

Recently, Japanese researchers have conducted an interesting experiment in the Suruga Bay, not far from the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the World Ocean.

The researchers put a container with some smelly bait on the bay bottom. A special video camera was attached to the wall of the container. The researchers peered into monitors to see what would happen with the container and the bait.

The smell of the bait attracted a shoal of deep-water sharks. But then the researchers saw something incredible that left them speechless. Suddenly the sharks scattered in all directions and researchers saw an incredibly huge monster on the screens of their monitors.


The giant slowly soared before the video camera at a depth of about 1.5 kilometers. The length of the sea Goliath was over 60 meters (more than 180 feet). It was not clear what the giant was in fact.

Researchers failed to answer the question, just made conjectures concerning what the creature may be. They said that might be a sleeping shark, the largest shark . Even now people know just few facts about these sharks.

They have been hiding in the dark ocean deeps for millions of years. People have never seen live sleeping sharks as well as giant squids. Only once, in 1964, a bulk of a dead sleeping shark was cast ashore in Indonesia; it was just a very young shark judging by its size of 26 meters. ..PRAVDA 9/20/03

"Scientists still do not know what they saw, registered and filmed and not a single frame has been released. If it was a giant shark Megalodon is a good candidate, even though this monster is thought to have died out 170 million years ago; see our features Megalodon the Monster Shark and New Evidence for Megalodon.
If it was a classical sea serpent it´s easy to understand why the Japanese scientist´s are cautious and would like to analyze the video footage very careful before releasing it to the world."

wow, this is interesting.

Wow thats really cool i would like to see some screen shots and maybe they will go more into this. What was your source for this

damn..thats fucken Hectec. Imagine that, a fucken 180ft Shark lurking around......must be wiping out the Giant Squid Pop.

godzilla?

I demand pics

Pics and a source!

I would also like to see some pics of this. Deep sea creatures always interested me.

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holy shit

WTF, it makes you wonder what else is down there.

lol turns out its just a greenland shark at first I was like wtf

lol turns out its just a greenland shark at first I was like wtf

hahaha PWNT ninja.

You got me going there for a bit....

Who knows thou there could be a giant shark somewhere. I keep hearing theres a 60ft Tiger Shark swimming around the Hawaiian Islands....

theres been over 30 ft Great Whites caught in the past
thats enough shark for me considering I live in one of the 3 favoured countries they surround

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lol thats one of them harmless deep sea sharks, they barely have teeth
Whale sharks are the same thing

damn sharks freak me out, I'm going to Hawaii in March and some canadian just lost three fingers and some of his thight to a shark in maui, fuck that ocean, I'm staying on the beach

I absolutely love sharks, I have a weird thing about them
studied them all my life but still cant go swimming in the ocean, or maybe thats why
I hate to see them killed but I fear them like nothing else
let them have the ocean, we have enough
you go from being top of the food chain to the bottom just by jumping in the water

fuckin sharks are scary. i read a book that had to do with that same fuckin thing called MEG. it would make a good movie probably.

fuckin sharks are scary. i read a book that had to do with that same fuckin thing called MEG. it would make a good movie probably.

lmfao

man you really dont wanna see the movie they made a few years back about the megladon

seriously the worst peice of shit ive ver seen

damn sharks freak me out, I'm going to Hawaii in March and some canadian just lost three fingers and some of his thight to a shark in maui, fuck that ocean, I'm staying on the beach

which island in hawaii are u going to?

Nah you dont have to worry about Sharks, they wont bother you. Just dont go swimming alone or go swimming in murky water, and also dont go in the water if you have open cuts(even thou salt water is actually good for healings minor cuts), If u do have cuts and want to swim just dont go too far out. Stay in the range of 0-6ft of water.

Trust me i know, i live on Maui. I see a lot of Sharks all the time when im surfing, they never seem to bother, but they do freak me out a bit.

Damn, If i saw one in the water anywhere near me I would shit my pants
good advise though

I'm staying on the beach in honalulu, i've been before, I got a good story for ya about the last time i was there too.

1. I caught an 80lb blue Marlin, fuckin awesome, best fish I ever caught

2. A boat got swamped by an 800 pound tuna and the skippers mate swam 18 miles home and left everybody else there treading water because he was scared the wounded fish attached to the boat would attract sharks

I'm a praire boy, that shit scares me

holy shit

uh hu

Wow, I wanna see a video of him!

This proves one thing, Scientist are wrong about evolution. If this colossal giant was supposed to be extinct wouldn't it have evolved by now over the course of 170 million years. And if this one is alive that means there are more down there.

damn..thats fucken Hectec. Imagine that, a fucken 180ft Shark lurking around......must be wiping out the Giant Squid Pop.

Sperm whales are already doing a fine job of that, and they actually exist. :p

This proves one thing, Scientist are wrong about evolution. If this colossal giant was supposed to be extinct wouldn't it have evolved by now over the course of 170 million years. And if this one is alive that means there are more down there.

Whoah whoah whoah there buddy, slow down. First of all, there is no evidence that this thing is alive today. The video posted was a greenland shark, not a megalodon, and the article in the original post has no source given and is written in an unprofessional manner, which basically means it has no credibility.

Secondly, even if there was a giant megalodon shark swimming around down there, that wouldn't disprove evolution in the slightest...in fact, the only thing your post proves is that you don't understand evolution (why is it that the most vocal opponents of evolution are always those with the poorest understanding of it?). If an organism is well adapted to it's environment, and it's environment doesn't undergo any drastic changes (the deep sea is probably one of the most static environments on earth), there is little selective pressure to drive evolution. Creatures that exist relatively unchanged over millions of years, often called "living fossils", are nothing new to science and are certainly not a problem for the theory of evolution. The coelacanth, the horseshoe crab, the tuatara, and numerous other creatures exist today relatively unchanged over millions of years, and have been well documented by science for years, yet the theory of evolution still stands.

Thats a shark you wouldn't catch me hunting

Sperm whales are already doing a fine job of that, and they actually exist. :p



Whoah whoah whoah there buddy, slow down. First of all, there is no evidence that this thing is alive today. The video posted was a greenland shark, not a megalodon, and the article in the original post has no source given and is written in an unprofessional manner, which basically means it has no credibility.

Secondly, even if there was a giant megalodon shark swimming around down there, that wouldn't disprove evolution in the slightest...in fact, the only thing your post proves is that you don't understand evolution (why is it that the most vocal opponents of evolution are always those with the poorest understanding of it?). If an organism is well adapted to it's environment, and it's environment doesn't undergo any drastic changes (the deep sea is probably one of the most static environments on earth), there is little selective pressure to drive evolution. Creatures that exist relatively unchanged over millions of years, often called "living fossils", are nothing new to science and are certainly not a problem for the theory of evolution. The coelacanth, the horseshoe crab, the tuatara, and numerous other creatures exist today relatively unchanged over millions of years, and have been well documented by science for years, yet the theory of evolution still stands.


I take it you like science

Cool stuff. This make me think of the Metalocalypse episode Deathwater were they record an album in the Mariana Trench. Brutal music for the fEESH! Feesh dont gots no good medal to listens too :dinamo:

wow that's.... wow

I remember seeing a special on the Discovery Channel a few years ago about the oceans and how much of them are still unexplored and how little is really known. One of the most interesting parts was from someone who studied whale calls and found all sorts of sounds from completely unknown animals. Some of them sounded pretty interesting.