A short excerpt from the book "Forbidden Archeology" by Michael Baigent will reveal the mystery about the mysterious deep-sea inhabitants of the oceans. Absolutely unthinkable creatures are hiding in the thickness of the world's oceans. And who knows how dangerous they are …
In 1972, the American anti-submarine ship Stein left its base in San Diego on combat duty along the coast of South America. Shortly after he crossed the equator, his underwater tracking equipment mysteriously failed, and all efforts to fix it failed.
Forced to prematurely end her watch, the Stein returned to drydock for repairs at the naval base in Long Beach. The cause of the breakdown was quickly revealed there.
The huge dome of the sonar, protruding under the bottom of the ship, was severely damaged as a result of an attack by some giant sea creature, leaving hundreds of traces of sharp, with cavities of teeth, up to an inch in length. Scientists-experts studied the data and in the end, apparently reluctantly, admitted the obvious: that the damage was caused by some "extremely large" creature "hitherto unknown to science."
No one knows what can swim in the depths of the megalith
In the 1960s and 1970s, a small American deep-sea craft, Alvin, was used in a research program to study unusual life forms in the depths of the ocean, especially those around the vents on the ocean floor. The pilots of this multipurpose vehicle have long been accustomed to strange creatures and unexpected appearances, because each dive took place on the verge of knowledge and technology. But even they were not immune to shock.
During one dive to a depth of thousands of feet, the constant pilot McCamis, as usual, watched from his porthole when, out of nowhere, a huge deep-sea creature swept in front of him, completely suddenly and swiftly, and quickly disappeared into pitch darkness. For all his experience, McCamis was shocked and dumbfounded. He reported seeing "a monster or something … at least forty or fifty feet." What it was - and remains a mystery.
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Scientists aboard another deep-sea craft, Dipstar-4000, saw a similar monster in the late 1960s. They were 4,000 feet deep and were setting up instruments at the bottom of a sea trench in the San Diego area when they discovered a giant fish, about forty feet long, of an unknown species floating directly on them. “The eyes were as big as soup bowls,” the pilot said.
I must admit that there are monsters in the seas. And it is not always necessary to invent unknown species to explain their existence. Skeptics will point out that monsters are well known - like a whale or a whale shark; even a great white shark moving at high speed can appear larger and scarier than it really is.
There is a widespread belief that in the conditions of the growing technical equipment of fishing and military vessels, as well as the presence of special ships engaged in the scientific research of the seas, no unknown animal, even of a small size, could go unnoticed. However, this is nothing more than the self-confidence of a person who believes in the omnipotence of technology. Unknown large sea creatures were actually found.
In 1976, on a US research vessel operating off the coast of Hawaii, anchor was raised and found that a large and completely unknown shark about fifteen feet in length was entangled in it. This shark not only turned out to be a representative of a new species, but also - to the amazement of biologists - a representative of a new family and genus.
Due to its giant mouth - more than four feet wide - it was quickly dubbed the "bigmouth" shark (Megachasma pelagios).
Pelagic largemouth shark
Bigmouth was not like any other shark. Its head was large and thick compared to its torso, and its mouth had a luminescent shell and 256 rows of tiny teeth. She ate plankton by filtering the water. This is a slow-moving and shy fish that is unlikely to pose a threat to humans. And yet it is surprising that she was first seen only 40 years ago.
In 1990, a slightly larger live largemouth shark was caught and released back into the ocean with two small sensors implanted under the skin to learn more about its behavior. These sensors made it possible to know that the shark moved daily in the sea, following the plankton: at night it rose to a depth of about fifty feet, during the day it dived to a depth of 500 feet or more. This is one of the reasons why she managed to avoid human contact for so long.
By 1995, seven specimens of this shark had been caught, the longest of which was seventeen feet (5.1 meters); it is believed that larger sharks of this family may exist.
Based on the book "Forbidden Archeology" by Michael Baigent