A just heard a Swede on BNR radio, , who said that a word ( or name? ) on the submarine in Russian script ended in a character that was eliminated from the script in 1918. The boat is thought to have been sunk in 1916. He also said that the remains of twenty men had been found inside the boat that are to be repatriated. I suppose the boat is still the property of the Russian state.
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Divers encounter mysterious blob off Turkey
Lutfu Tanriover was diving off his hometown of Fethiye on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey when he and fellow divers encountered a mysterious blob drifting 72 feet below the surface.
The divers didn’t know what to think of the 13-foot wide translucent sphere that was soft and gelatinous looking. Tanriover, who shot video of what he called “The Thing,” that they felt a mixture of excitement and fear as they approached the unknown sea creature.
After the video was posted, Dr. Michael Vecchione of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History was the first to come forward with a possible identification, saying it looked like a huge squid egg mass.
And he told Deep Sea News that it’s the largest he’s ever seen.
Vecchione suspects it came from a large red flying squid called Ommastrephes bartramii, though no one has ever seen it lay eggs before. The white dots in the sphere are said to be the eggs, though the larger structures in the egg mass have not been identified.
The only other known egg mass such as this one was the one Danna Staaf and her colleagues documented for the first time in 2008. It was a Humboldt squid egg mass found in the Gulf of California, and it was between 10- and 13-feet wide, making it the largest egg mass every recorded in scientific literature, .
That 600,000 to 2 million eggs, or 10 times more than any other squid ever recorded.
Why these squid egg masses don’t wash ashore or aren’t encountered by divers more often is likely because they are usually found in deeper water and the eggs usually hatch in three days, limiting the time they could be seen.
All of which makes this a rare sighting, on two fronts.
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Lutfu Tanriover was diving off his hometown of Fethiye on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey when he and fellow divers encountered a mysterious blob drifting 72 feet below the surface.
The divers didn’t know what to think of the 13-foot wide translucent sphere that was soft and gelatinous looking. Tanriover, who shot video of what he called “The Thing,” that they felt a mixture of excitement and fear as they approached the unknown sea creature.
After the video was posted, Dr. Michael Vecchione of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History was the first to come forward with a possible identification, saying it looked like a huge squid egg mass.
And he told Deep Sea News that it’s the largest he’s ever seen.
Vecchione suspects it came from a large red flying squid called Ommastrephes bartramii, though no one has ever seen it lay eggs before. The white dots in the sphere are said to be the eggs, though the larger structures in the egg mass have not been identified.
The only other known egg mass such as this one was the one Danna Staaf and her colleagues documented for the first time in 2008. It was a Humboldt squid egg mass found in the Gulf of California, and it was between 10- and 13-feet wide, making it the largest egg mass every recorded in scientific literature, .
That 600,000 to 2 million eggs, or 10 times more than any other squid ever recorded.
Why these squid egg masses don’t wash ashore or aren’t encountered by divers more often is likely because they are usually found in deeper water and the eggs usually hatch in three days, limiting the time they could be seen.
All of which makes this a rare sighting, on two fronts.
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This panda is TOO clever?
Taipei panda Yuan Yuan 'pretends' to be pregnant
Yuan Yuan: I need to fake pregnancy just to get some fresh bamboo leaves and a cool room. What happen to the promise of 5 star hotel service when you guys lure me away from Sichuan? Can a girl get a break or what.....
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Replica spitfire pilot lands in emergency situations without wheels
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Who is honking? No passing......................
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I think that this is Air Force Brat back yard?
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If I could fly an aircraft I would do this with my boys
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Please remember to remove cat before flight
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