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Bizarre Deep Sea Fish Dredged Up By Tsunami

Posted by michael on from the look-what-the-cat-dragged-in dept.

spankfish writes "The following page features numerous great pictures of bizarre and creepy deep-sea creatures which have been dredged up by the recent tsunami and presented by normal divers. Fascinating stuff! The page is in Russian, but it's all about the pictures." Update: 01/15 18:02 GMT by J : As those of you who read the comments have already realized, this is an urban legend.

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  1. Re:Oops... by TelcusFreshbreeze · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good call
    Snopes should be the first port of call for anything like this

  2. Re:Oops... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bull!

    Editors are supposed to double check stories and at the very least look for reputable cross-references before blindly accepting a story and calling it news. This isn't an honest error, it is sheer incompetence.

    This is yellow journalism, plain and simple. Even your high school newspaper has higher standards than this.

  3. Two Possibilities by Rie+Beam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lesse - if the page is in Russian, but got approved, there are two possibilities:

    1) Mike doesn't know Russian, and approved it on summary and purty pictures alone.

    OR

    2) Mike knows Russian, and is just gullible.

    Either way, it says something kinda depressing about the state of /. nowadays.