Oarfish

[airjonathan1]

arnt aorafish in the deep sea?

[Useless2112]

We'll always love you Whitney Oarfish.

[XOXOKatyPerry]

R.I.P.

[PhreezingPoint]

Catch it clone it release it

[thezxialon]

:I know now why it's so hard to see them.

[paigebasketcase]

why does it look invisible?......

[Hx470]

that looks like a giant version of a knifefish or sumthin

[raysfan1970]

This was filmed in the Tongue of the Ocean, better know as the TOTO, off the east coast of Andros Island, Bahamas. Why would I know this ? Because I was on the island at the time it was filmed and know the divers in the video.

[HowToCashFast]

What's my dick doing there?

[kruptstar]

FAKE! Blahahahahahaha, actually i dont care, ore fish are dumb. if they were smart thered be more of them...Kstar out

[robloxfan459]

@kruptstar Well there is alot, but since they only surface every once in a while we hardly see'em.

[PolarFoxlet]

Reminds me of a stretched Paramecium somehow. O.o

[IsraphelMC]

You probably thought that oarfish was alive.Nope.It's just Chuck Testa

[Argroh]

WARNING

A HUGE BATTLESHIP

PEACE DESTROYER

IS APPROACHING FAST

[OdysseyCheerBadass]

such a beautiful animal

[DarkWingedHunter]

it is an Iku Nagae a person from Touhou

[ninmachine109]

god the ocean is awsesome

[MegaSnake1000]

oarfisk can actully get to like 56 feet... i think thats the world record

[TheDmowat]

I knew I should've broken up that massive jobby before I flushed it...

[TheDmowat]

I knew I should've broken up that massive jobby before I flushed it...

[MrFuZz67]

@ValforWing yeah it does

[ValforWing]

it looks just like the dragon king from okami

[icedupwolf]

ITS MILOTIC!!

[MrDakotaWood]

@icedupwolf Milotic, like all of the pokemon is based of a real or mythical animal. Milotic would have been designed using this as inspiration

[cosmosboy]

Milotic??? 

[HomebrandMusic01]

Get that bitch an oarfish. Bitches love oarfish

[muhammadnaimmohdnasi]

the fish only go to surface when it's time to die.....

[cbk0verk1ll]

dude that shit is almost invisible. that is its camo to hide from other predators. It just stay put verticaly until a small fishy passes by for OmNomNom and then back to being camo stick

[j3fr135]

@cbk0verk1ll it has no teeth but still true

[WitchNiaMoon]

Iku!!! yay. touhou.

[ratapicha]

fantastic amazing video... details can't be better.. congrats

[gsrules34]

i watches an Iku video and what is this?

[TaliaTxT]

@gsrules34 haha pretty much same here. i read something about it on a discription of a swr song and now i'm here

[mctabla]

Where was this video of an oar fish taken?

[Bandersnatch41]

What kind of oarfish is it? Because there are sevral differnt kinds living in the deep ocean.

[TheGamesforreal]

i saw 1 in real life, i mistook it for a sea dragon, ran (swum) for my life and later some1 told me it was an oarfish *FACEPALM*

[AshillaBeige]

@TheGamesforreal Hahaha I'd be scared too. Sucks that you couldn't examine it then, I guess. They're kinda cute in a weird way lol

[TheGamesforreal]

@AshillaBeige yeah, i would have loved to have a better look now.... in a way, you can say this is a "real" dragon.... people just call it oarfish.... but i still think it should have been called deep oar dragon or something...

[WireMosasaur]

The sea surface is one of the most vulnerable and exposed places for a fish to be. If a large fish "gets scared from the noise" of the anyway geologically active sea floor, it makes no sense for its instinct to be to go to the surface.

If an animal flees its usual habitat out of "disaster distress" I'd think it has to do with human drilling, human or natural pollution like an algae bloom/mud/anoxia.

That is of course assuming the oarfish would never go to the surface just because it wants to.

[dltanner99]

Cryptozoology novel about two boys who find something strange on the beach one night see video book trailer

[bertiefrom30]

Do you get coupons with it?

[sexbagelsk8er]

gyrados?

[Infinite8blue]

the pokemon milotic is base of this fish

[Scabin11]

q loko cara !!

[Flyingspud247]

I would guess that it swims vertically so it can see it's prey silhoutted against the surface.

[SuperEasytiger]

you can get more dive stories on the myscubastory site. Type myscubastory into google and its the first one i think

[predigga]

Sry, I just have blue screen ;)

[zarrurer12]

its amazing how these fish are practicly invisible in the water even with their silvery colours. plus their a beautiful fish to <3

[zzzIdividedbyzerozzz]

Time to use the masterball!

[MedatonOrtano]

@pokethings27: The ground doesn't shake before an earthquake. It shakes during an earthquake. If it shook before an earthquake, it wouldn't be able to sustain the pressure upon the plates that it takes to produce an earthquake.

[letiic]

this fish.. is invisible..? 0____o

[aishaayre]

camouflaging pokemon...

[1337one1]

i bet that fish is thinking WTF

[BleachRulz100]

Where the hell is the fish?

[MegaRcdrifter]

please can you get the fish closer:C

[mMAmericanSpiritMm]

Active camouflage!!!

[BChimi25]

Oarfish was in the Thai history.. we believe that they're some sort of God. I don't know if i'm right.. coz i can't really remember.

[carloslee045]

i just remembered i did a report on the oarfish in the 2nd grade. these things are crazy.

[bon14789]

that's the legendary pokemon!

[TheDrapocalypse]

@bon14789 Or it could be the Pokemon Milotic. If you look up Milotic and this type of fish, you will see that they are quite similar

[omfgNstfu]

Wow, @ pokethings27 I heard of that too!

[thefury187]

these things can grow up to 56 ft long

[jesusfish305]

wow, so eerie and beautiful...

[FUdirtbag]

i would've grabbed it to see if it would swim me to atlantis.

[rotjesenmatjes]

''Gotta catch all!''

[Minon157]

wow mini gayrados

[gitarmats]

Excellent camoflague! Incredible animal!

[theofficialMISFIT]

wow. it blends perfectly in.

[mikuloverstardust]

the face looks like E.T.

[ItzDatFooTony]

i think i see a string at :19 and :31? maybee cool video though

[scaremenga]

@ItzDatFooTony I think those ventral fins, used for sensing it's surroundings.. Gourami's have them. Just a guess.

[bjnboy]

This fish may have electrical properties. At least one account, from researchers in New Zealand, describes the oarfish as giving off "electric shocks" when touched.

[SilverGoldfish555]

oh wow, look at how well it blends in with the watery background! perfect protection!!!

[prodme01]

odd way of swimming for a fish unless your a seahorse ,,,,,,which obviously this isnt and for those who carnt see much its swimming as if stood on its tail

[wtfmaker2596]

this is a pokemon most worth catching :D

[Darkcho7]

@wtfmaker2596 lol..yeah if you cant capture it with a pokeball just masterball it haha

[MrRayquazaking]

@wtfmaker2596 *Wild Gyrados appears*

[bobochan91]

@wtfmaker2596 use pikachu to catch it!

[randomdude581]

@wtfmaker2596 A wild gyrados appeared!

[herocactus]

@wtfmaker2596 is it wrong that that is the first thing I thought when I heard about these fish?

[XAwesomeRockerDudeX]

@wtfmaker2596 you know theres a theory that milotic is based on this , search it on google and look at the pics

[magerboy]

@wtfmaker2596 Milotic is actually based on the Oarfish

[KutscherRolf]

@magerboy milotic is based on a mermaid...Huntail or Gorebyss would be the better oarfish^^

[Zellig]

@wtfmaker2596 Lol Gyradose has teeth oarfish dont

[ShutTheDown]

@Zellig youre right, this is a milotic

[xxkatyperryxx1]

@wtfmaker2596 its not a pokemon

[juslookin3]

Wow, really nice to see a live one in the ocean, unmolested.

[sparmley]

Even though I'm a Marine Scientists I admit I know little about this fish. That being said I'll trust the scientific articles I've read stating they come to the surface when sick or dying over your theory that these fish are forecasting seismic events more accurately (and months before) leading scientists.

Just a little advice on being a good human; it is never good manners to tell someone they are, "totally wrong."

[hardcoresolider]

i wish i could touch it once in mylive

[linguadopdb]

no 3000meters ander de see

[pokethings27]

FYI "flugel76" you probably didn't even know that. So I wouldn't act smart by telling me not to do that if I were you. Any more corrections flugel76? Or should I say it like this?:

In the text above, have you remarked any other errors? And by the way, I did type it fast.

I know this stuff because I use my brain.

[Allidile]

@ apo115: You have to use depth charges to get it 1000 meters under the sea. It's one of the hardest fish to catch.

[pokethings27]

accutally, for those who think that oarfish only come up to the surface when they are sick or about to die, no offense, but your totally wrong. Yes they will come up for that, but mostly, oarfish come to the surface to signal danger. According to Google, Yahoo and books, alot of oarfish started coming up in November 2009. A little after that, there where the earthquakes in HAITI, CHILI and all those other place. They come up because they feel the ground shaking and they get scared from the noise

[Gloc998]

wha... thats cool!!! like catfishes Wreaking their tanks before an eathquake!

[dragongal87]

so cool.. :D

[flugel76]

@pokethings27

Don't try to act all smart and educated when you don't even know the difference between "your" and "you're"....

[pureefficient]

@pokethings27

and then they die?

[pokethings27]

@pureefficient honestly im not sure. i know they come up if they know they're going to die but i don't know if they die of sickness. i guess it depends how sick they acctually are..?

[coolsalvadorian]

@pokethings27 It's Chile no chili

[mttg1215]

@coolsalvadorian Oarfish Chili anyone?

[Diarmollini]

@pokethings27 'According to Google, Yahoo and books' - LMAO!!! Well if it's in Google, Yahoo AND books it must be true! Fab turn of phrase! Tell me - which books exactly? Real sciencey ones or all the ones on the sections on the Trivial Pursuit board?!

[toolhead22]

@Diarmollini lol, I was going to write something similiar, seems pointless now hehe

[ivanmontelongo]

@pokethings27 Are you sure you don't mean Chile?

[deatheclipse123]

@ivanmontelongo lol, he said CHILI XD

[SSBBXDSSBM]

@pokethings27 u should be right..... these fish would be helping us :D sadly....they usually die when they come up to the surface as ppl say but u are mostly right cuz as apo115 said, they live about 1000 meters up and earthquakes rumbles everywhere in the ground so i think u could hear the earth rumble better when u are lower in the see which is closer to deep ground.

[A7exandersca7es]

@pokethings27 what books?

[SOONIDODJCORTEZ]

your right bro but i see the oarfish more like a god like you said they came up to signal danger

[IKeiichiroI]

@pokethings27 Just like the snakes !

[joemcbobinite]

@pokethings27 thats a kool lil fact n all, but anyone of those deep sea freaks could do the same thing, the japanese frill dragon shark or w.e the hell its called i forget, that one that was floatin all dead like in japan (i think japan) and its got them pretty frills on its gills think they said it was a shark. but yea those come up to die as well. so who knows maybe their pretty lil asses get scared and do that to.but frill shark > oarfish in looks sorry oarfish u ugly!

[slimithy12]

@pokethings27 it's funny you say that cos in thailand they are thought of as spirital creature with the power to pridict the future, so i guess the far eastern knew exactly what they were long before modern science did.

[pokethings27]

@slimithy12 kewl nice 2 no

[QuantumCarl]

@pokethings27 I imagine it's like weather loach, they feel a barometric pressure and breach.

[pokethings27]

@QuantumCarl ya probably

[Austin76711]

@pokethings27 That is very interesting I mean I know thare alot of sighting during that time but I never knew it was because of that.

[TheGirlgamer87]

@pokethings27 there also beautiful :)

[carzorthade]

@pokethings27

[citation needed]

[killapound]

@pokethings27 now thats one of the most smartest things ive ever seen some one say on youtube

[FonikiFysalida]

@pokethings27 Hmmm actually you are wrong. They were washed ashore not coming up to the surface.Japanese believed that Regalecus glesne is a messenger from god of the sea and they will tell them about the fore coming quakes.But this is folklore.

They only come to the surface when they are sick or dying or being larvae/juvenile.

[zachieb321]

@pokethings27 Is that scientifically accurate? Or are you just speculating?

[death5089]

@pokethings27 yahoo, google, and books are not sources. There are search engines and possible sources.

[Bluebelle9289]

@death5089

Search engines and books are sources. A lot of people use them to write reports. In school you're required to cite the sites you've visited and books you've read so they can check to see if your report is legit and accurate and not copied.

[sonic911]

@death5089 ...books are sources bro

[HollyhockSamurai]

@pokethings27

It's interesting to me how finding something in literature makes something that much more interesting. Truth be told I encountered your statement before the whole "sick and about to die" thing, while playing Touhou Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. I really enjoy ZUN's use of mythology and lore in the influence of his characters, Iku Nagae noted for her clothing being influenced by the fishe's appearance, and even warns of a very terrible earthquake to come in her dialogue with Reimu.

[aLilBitOEverything]

@pokethings27 Oh, That is not good. I saw one last Saturday at Santa Cruz Island, CA. I'll be uploading a vid of it soon.

[MultiEpoch]

@pokethings27 in scientific words. they approach the surface when adverse conditions are present, intinsic or extrinsic. so yes they were right in saying the ascend when troubled. its just the 'lost in translation' when layman try to read peer-reviewed articles.

[orijuy30]

@pokethings27 oarfish don't come up to signal danger, they come up to create danger. according to google, yahoo and a lot of books, a lot of oarfish started coming up in november 2009, a little after that there where the earthquakes in HATI, CHILI and all those other places. a group of oarfish come up to the surface to perform a ritual to make the ground shake and cause an earthquake.

[beatifulbolagana]

@orijuy30 so true

[AniDex]

@orijuy30 Oarfish used Earthquake! It's super effective!

Actually, in all seriousness, I wonder if they're like earthworms (they come up from the ground when they feel the vibrations of raindrops on the earth above them). Perhaps they feel the tetonic plates shifting and come up?

[Zeruel3]

You can see why they're so hard to spot in the wild, a navy battlegroup could've passed right over that thing and enver seen it once

[WaveSliders]

Easy to see why they are also called ribbon fish.

[Air0374]

You're an idiot...they don't call it PHOTOshop for a reason...

[elinheartstristin]

@Air0374 this is a real fish. i know

[player445363]

No, thats the fin on top of its head. its really thin and shiny, like the rest of its body. Watch closely when the diver approaches it and releases a swarm of bubbles as he breath's out. you will see the fins in the cluster of bubbles. They also swim vertically. Pretty unique and amazing fish huh?

[travisdt]

it is more likely his/her beard, oarfish has lots of them

[Dimitrirulespunks]

it was a giant condom!!!!!!

[327372]

loooooooooooooooool

[xTRICKYxx]

@mafio91 the oarfish swims vertically

[mafio91]

I think the motherfuckers fished it. Cause there's a wire above his mouth the whole time. Plus fish don't stay vertical like that...

[bytemefreak]

i don't think so. the oarfish swims vertically and that "wire" you see that's part of the fish.

[apo115]

@mafio91 how can you fish it? It lives a 1000 meters under the sea. It only goes to the surface to die.

[fhk1993]

@apo115 google it :)

[tilltheendoftime155]

why do they swim upright and why is this one see throug?

[ShakaVahn]

It's not actually see-through. It's silver scales make them blend in very well into the surrounding water, giving off the impression that it's see-through.

[ilZimo]

so it's sort of sea-through...

[ericthehurdler]

i can barely see the damn thing what is it see threw?

[Trajedya84]

why didn;t he hugged it?

[CROWTHEKILLER]

Maybe he's the orygin of the Sea Serpent legend.

[Hasbo88]

they are

[WaterBendingMaster07]

@CROWTHEKILLER they r

[yulexaa]

reminds me of haku from spirited away

[krulkntrdction]

haha it does

[WaterBendingMaster07]

@yulexaa YES !!!

[AryaSravaka]

wow that s a very beautiful film :)

fightclub is awesome 2

[fishtanksandponds]

Great video of a very rarely seen species (especially a live one) they normally inhabit very deep water

Thanks for posting it..

[southerncreature]

To anyone else who is disputing the validity of this video. Simply watch the movement of the dorsal fin. This is to the left of the fish and runs from just above its eyes almost to its tail....and is moving frantically. While unusually long for most fish, this is not unlike the dorsal fin of the fresh water aba aba of the Nile River (a distant cousin of the Venezuelan Ghost Knife Fish who's anal fin moves in the same manner) This is very rare and exciting footage. Alas this fish is about to die.

[southerncreature]

To explain better my 1st comment was for tmolesky (fish are not quiet) and my 2nd comment was for revdarian (and I'd like to add that what you perceive to be strings are in fact extensions of the fish itself ....they have a series of "rays" protruding from their head).

[southerncreature]

hell no, your ears are simply not made for under water!!

[revdarian]

0:31 you can see the nylons holding this oarfish.

[keoghman96]

yea haha

[southerncreature]

Hey mate go to your local pet shop (if you live in an industrialized nation) and buy a Venezuelan (ghost) Knife Fish. Of cause you'll need to keep it in a fish tank, i.e. do not put it on the ground or some sort of dumb shit like that...it is a "fish". Then you will see many fish salt water or fresh water large or small swim, live and exist in this fashion. OR

Simply don't comment on what you don't know!!

[fenotte2003]

Where is the interest of this video, nothing to see !

[esile567]

so fascinating, I can hardly see it :)

[copdpmt]

live!!! its not even freakin moving..

[betawarrior60x]

Looks completely camouflaged.......how did they even sight one?? And it looks petrified.....

[WePrank4Fun]

Very cool, their reflective skin makes them practicaly invisible

[GabesReptileShow1992]

That thing is invisible. I don't know how they spotted it.

[TheVJUDGE]

Oarfish only come  up to the surface when they are sick

[hrmpf6]

Or dead. But that`s not optional. XD