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One more thing: it's all fun and games until you suck a whale into the input pipe! But seriously, if you pump up nutrient-rich soup from the deep, in a few years your pipe is going to be so clogged up with marine critters that your flow rate is going to tend towards zero...

Not to mention it'll be damn traumatic for anyone who digs out some of the deep sea's scarier denizens from those pipes...

Here's a better picture of the stone crab on a black background. Just a little bigger and it would make one awesome wallpaper.

http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/images/creature_f eatures/hr/stonecrab.jpg

All hail Spiky Ubercrab!

Sorry, Yum!

:P

it is not called a Crabtacular spikeouchamus, or "Spiky Ubercrab", it's actual name is a Stone Crab ( Neolithodes sp.)

Pictures

Here is where the pictures are really from.

Sweet! That one crab-like thing is awesome.

I hereby name it the Crabtacular spikeouchamus, or "Spiky Ubercrab"!

I never had a favorite animal before, but now I do. It's red, hard, and just plain intimidating. Almost like a Sauron of the seas. Sweeeeeeet!

Here are where the pictures originally came from. As the above poster said the story is not true, but the sealife is real.

here are some pages pictures taken from norfanz, the last major survey of deep aquatic life

as reported here of course

those are some weird looking animals

Oh no, something else to worry about. The first photo page states Coffinfishes are flabby bottom-dwelling fishes -- I better start exercising!

Came across the site about a month ago. I was looking up the report on mapping of sea canyons south of Australia. The head of my Geology Dept was on the trip trip and he also got airtime on our ABC Science TV show Catalyst.

The recent story of the unidentified "sea blubber" washed up on the Peruvian coast was a opportunity to show my kids the NorfANZ site. The coffin fish got the award for "freakiest fish".

That's nothing. Check this out...

"When the squid is hanging at a 45 angle, all the light organs aim down and produce just enough light to cancel out the silhouette of the squid against the weak light from the surface above. They can even adjust the lights for different depths or time of day."

Scroll down for the picture of a Jewel Squid.

Is it just me, or does the Anemone Hermit Crab shown in the second picture on this page look rather like an immature form of the Alien Face Hugger? Obviously H. R. Giger is a Tasmanian marine biologist in his spare time...

Take a look at this friendly little sample and ask yourself where H.R.Giger really got his inspiration for our friends, the aliens, in the Aliens movies series.

I know I've seen him somewhere... Isn't PHOTO 10 a spokesman for SCO?

I want to die in my sleep, like my dear old great-grandad... not like all the screaming wusses in the car he hit!

black-lip rattail that is Guillon?

Incredible! Finally, an authentic photograph of Cowboy Neal!