A woman was attacked by a goblin shark?
The peninsula media reports about the tragedy that happened three days ago in the resort village of Ordzhonikidze. According to numerous eyewitnesses, an unknown sea creature attacked a young woman literally a few tens of meters from the coast
The underwater creature bit the victim's stomach. Summer is running out and to call these messages "another attempt to disrupt the holiday season" is simply silly.
“The tragedy broke out in the evening, when it was already getting dark on the street, but there were still people on the beach,” says an eyewitness Muscovite Dmitry. - Two girls decided to swim, swam near the shore. Suddenly one of them sank like a stone. The second managed to grab her friend by the hair and pull her out with a jerk. By some miracle, she did not let the creature drown its prey!..
In a state of shock, the girls got out of the water. The victim had a large piece of abdominal muscles and viscera pulled out near the spleen itself.
The unconscious tourist was taken to the First City Hospital of Feodosia. The girl died a few hours later. At first, doctors confirmed the shocking information. However, today the head physician Viktor Symonenko suddenly began to assert that "nothing happened."
An attack by an unknown cannibal has stirred up the resort coast. Among the versions - a crocodile, sharks, or the notorious Karadag monster escaped from the zoo. “Perhaps the wounds were caused by a monk seal, which is very rare in our country, but can grow up to three meters,” the deputy suggests. Director for Research of the Institute of Biology of the South Seas Alexander Boltachev.
Last summer, a Nile crocodile did slip out of a traveling zoo on the neighboring Sea of Azov. No such messages have been recorded this season. But it is known that the owners of several dozen fashionable estates of the Crimean South Coast keep toothy creatures, and a month ago in the center of Yalta they solemnly opened a large "crocodile".
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Not everything is so simple and with the optimistic statement that "there were no cases of shark attacks in the Black Sea."
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In the last December 2010 broadcasts, Russian TV crews gave birth to unprecedented news. On the traverse of Sevastopol, the fishermen caught a "goblin"!
This is the name of a monster shark with a long beak-shaped muzzle and ugly jaws pushed forward. The skin of this creature is translucent, and blood vessels show through it. The largest known specimen of the "goblin" reached a length of 3.8 meters and weighed 210 kilograms.
Following its Moscow colleagues, the shark topic became a hit on the central Ukrainian channel 1 + 1 and the newspaper Fakty, the largest national newspaper in Ukraine.
Until now, it was believed that such a deep-sea shark lives in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan, although even there it is very rare. How the "goblin" ended up in the Black Sea, where the salinity of the water is different, is not clear. For Crimea, the capture of a shark has become a serious emergency. An informational ban was imposed on the topic, which only fueled interest in the monster …
High ranks of the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency Situations seized the booty, the fishermen were forbidden to communicate with the press under the threat of serious administrative repression.
Scientists have put forward a version that the caught specimen of a goblin shark, not the largest for its species, ended up in the waters of the Black Sea thanks to rich lovers of exotic fauna.
- Perhaps they were taking it for a private aquarium. Many yachts come to Sevastopol and, most likely, she fell overboard, - said Yulia Korneichuk, a researcher at the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas. - Recently, mainly due to human activity, there has been a huge number of such “migrants”. Many species find themselves in an unnatural habitat for themselves and live …
After two weeks of waiting, the Ukrainian authorities issued a categorical denial about the capture of a "mutant shark" near Sevastopol and expressed their "bewilderment at the continuous appearance of publications on this topic."
The deputy for scientific work of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Alexander Boltachev, was instructed to personally refute. Through the government news agency UNIAN, he authoritatively stated that the monster shark in Crimea is a “duck”.
- This fish was not caught in the Black Sea! Because in the Black Sea, such trawls are not used now. These are typical bottom trawls that are used in the Russian Far East, the deputy loudly argued. director.
In fact, exactly the same “prohibited” bottom trawls are actively used today throughout the Azov-Black Sea basin.
In addition, for some reason the scientist clarified that this shark "is not dangerous, because, firstly, it lives at great depths, and secondly, it does not reach large sizes."
The serpent returns
… The terrible jaws of the "goblin" guest are quite capable of ripping out the guts of a tourist from the village of Ordzhonikidze. Although local residents claim that their own Karadag monster took the next victim.
Near the village and the elite resort of Koktebel is the famous natural reserve Kara-Dag: a phantasmagoric heap of coastal rocks and hundreds of underwater caves of an extinct volcano. In Soviet times, the zone was closed - special forces of the Navy were based here and tested secret equipment.
Naturally, all the disappearances of people in such a zone were also classified as "secret." But there is a description of the beginning of the twentieth century, made by another eyewitness, the famous writer Vsevolod Ivanov: "It was up to 30 meters in length and as thick as the tabletop of a writing table, if it was turned sideways, and the head, the size of the arms span, resembled a snake one."
In August 1921, the Feodosia city newspaper reported on the next coming of the "sea reptile", urging to remain calm and not to lose vigilance. The snake was unsuccessfully caught by a detachment of Red Army men and Cheka employees. Koktebel resident Maximilian Voloshin told his guest Mikhail Bulgakov about the incident. It is believed that it was this story that inspired Mikhail Afanasyevich the plot of the story "Fatal Eggs".
New photos of the 90s, which supposedly depict the Karadag monster, are kept by the former director of the reserve, Peter Semenkov, and research assistant Vladimir Maltsev. Alas, for some reason, scientists refuse to provide pictures and discuss the topic: they say, the topic is completely not scientific.
At the same time, the dolphins were thrown away, which someone “chopped off” their bellies with one bite. The width of the bite along the arc recorded by the inspection protocol was almost a meter! Representatives of the Ukrainian and Russian academies of sciences went to the scene. But in the refrigerator of the reserve, unknown persons turned off the light and the dolphin carcasses rotted …
The storm washes away all traces
Perhaps this is a coincidence, but the next morning, after the current attack of an unknown monster, an incredible storm broke out in the Eastern Crimea. The waves roared ashore and carried away everything that stood in their way into the sea.
With such a storm, any attempts to pursue the sea cannibal were ruled out.
According to official data, three people, including a child, died on the coast between Feodosia and Sudak. The fate of eight more people is unknown, their relatives turned to the police for help in their search.
The strongest storm raged near Kara-Dag in the village of Novy Svet. The riot of nature seemed to mix with human madness. The windbreaks were knocked down, dragged under the water, but the holidaymakers with some maniacal persistence climbed into the sea, the excitement of which was four points.
In fact, they went for a swim, realizing that they might die. The beach had to be blocked with a chain.
Meanwhile, reports of disappearances at sea continue to flow. The Crimean headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations declares the simultaneous disappearance of a 26-year-old Muscovite and a young resident of the Kiev region: both guys dived into the storm and did not swim out. They are looking for. Yesterday in Gurzuf, another Russian died in a 5-point storm. A 44-year-old man went swimming and was unable to return to the rocky shore on his own. In front of the entire beach, it was smashed against boulders. The rescue sailors with the help of a rope pulled the body to the shore.
On Saturday in Yalta, the 12th International Television Forum "Together" began its work. By tradition, the forum participants laid flowers at the monument to the Lady with the Dog on the embankment. Although it is several hundred meters from here to the surf line, the waves rose so high that the spray covered guests and spectators at the monument.
The only one who dared to swim in the stormy sea was the actor Alexander Mikhailov. The waves hit the star of the Soviet hit film Love and Doves on the beach pebbles. He admits that he did not die by a miracle.