This Is The Deadliest Creature in The Ocean

hey 42 here okay now i know what you're thinking it's obvious what the most terrifying creature in the water is it's the great white shark everyone knows that but things aren't quite that clear-cut as we're about to find out in 1963 clinton haynes was scuba diving in the deep and ancient nelson lakes new zealand in search of a lost propeller he descended 30 meters into the inky blackness searching by torchlight for any sign of his prize a glint of reflected light from metal perhaps or an unusual shape on the lake bed what he found instead was something much much worse a large dark shape uncoiled from the shadows and began to move rapidly towards him haynes drew his knife as four more shapes appeared out of the darkness making the beeline straight for him he had no idea what the creatures were but he knew instinctively that he had just dropped several links down the food chain in a breathless flurry of bubbles he dropped his torch and fled for the surface where his wife was waiting for him in their dinghy as he raced upwards one of the black shapes seized his flipper in its jaws glancing down haynes caught a glimpse of a gigantic snake-like creature about two meters long thrashing below horrified he struggled with all his might to escape its clutches knowing at any moment the animal's nightmarish pals would reach him and together drag him to his death breaking the surface he screamed for his wife to help seeing her husband grappling with a curling monstrosity she reacted instantly lunged forward and with adrenaline fuelled superhuman strength hauled him out of the water the creature fled back beneath the waves and having risen from the depths too quickly haynes passed out from decompression sickness but he was alive and safe but just what manner of creature had haunted him these were no snakes neither were they a manifestation of the tanifa from maori mythology said to eat men whole and carry their wives into the depths it was a group of lungfin eel one of the largest eel species in the world looking like the product of an ill-advised night of passion between a snake and a slug lungfin eels are powerful swimmers that would be more than capable of drowning a fully grown man haynes had a very lucky escape these eels are so badass that they only breed once lest they take over the world just before they shuffle off this mortal coil they make a final journey thousands of kilometers from new zealand to tonga here the female lays up to 20 million eggs which once fertilized hatch into alien-like transparent lava called leptocephalus over the next 15 months these larvae drift on ocean currents back to new zealand where they slowly transform into transparent glass seals and finally lung thin heels now the first image that comes to mind when i talk about terrors of the deep is probably the looming silhouette of a great white shark but look stop getting ahead of yourself there are plenty of other foul beasties out there just as deserving of the accolade as scariest monster from the deep and some of the sneakiest have even managed to disguise themselves as our friends killer whales the aptly named wolves of the sea are typically considered to be friendly to humans probably because those bizarre seaworld types love nothing more than riding around on their backs and launching into the air off their noses but in reality these animals are frankly lethal killer whales are in fact not really whales at all but are instead the largest member of the dolphin family known for their incredible intelligence unparalleled hunting ability and insatiable punch on for sado masochism okay so i don't exactly have a source on that last one but come on they're basically just big dolphins in [ __ ] suits killer whales or orcas as they're also known named for orcus the roman god of death and the underworld naturally are well known for toying with their prey giving whatever hapless creature happens to be on the menu just enough of a head start to believe it has a chance at life before casually tearing it to shreds and gulping down the bones they've even been known to use half dead prey as a makeshift ball in the world's most odious game of water polo propelling half dead seals some 20 meters into the air just for the hell of it they hunt pretty much anything that's stupid enough to get in their way enormous man-eating leopard seals no problem spawn of satan great white sharks easy peasy entire pods of humpback whales yep i'll eat the kids first the name killer whale is actually a shortened form of killer of whales because that's exactly what they do they swim around in formation slaughtering sperm huntback grey finn and any other whales they come across they even eat other dolphins because what better way of remaining the most feared member of the dolphin family than by indiscriminately slaughtering the competition in shores they have what you might call a resume of terror they can grow to be eight meters long and weigh in at five and a half thousand kilos they are hyper hyper-intelligent and have evolved extremely complex and efficient team-based hunting methods that employ special forces tactics like flushing flanking and ambushing they have complex social structures which they use to teach their young their species ancient and sophisticated murder techniques and they possess an understanding of physics that would make a phd student blush allowing them to generate waves designed to knock seals off ice floes and into the salivating mouths of their pals but somehow because they can do backflips in water parks and majestically leap over rock walls to freedom we consider them little more than friendly oversized ocean dogs even though tilly arguably the most infamous captive killer whale ever is known to have violently murdered free human beings at sea world parks two of which were his trainers although it must be said keeping killer whales in captivity is known to have serious adverse effects on their mental well-being and by doing so you're kind of asking for it plus there have been no recorded fatal attacks by killer whales on humans in the wild then again maybe that's because they're too intelligent to get caught whilst killer whales may be giving mankind a wide berth the same can't be said for sperm whales which are perhaps the embodiment of the ocean's vengeance upon mankind whilst most of the time their docile creatures sperm whales can rapidly turn into 12 meters and almost 60 000 kilos of cetacean destruction sperm whales are the largest animal with teeth on the planet each of their 50 odd teeth measures up to 20 centimeters in length and weighs as much as a kilo what do they use these gigantic teeth for doing battle with the ungodly colossal squid for the most part but they don't just have to rely on a set of gnashes that ronaldinho would be proud of to take down their prey they also make use of an integrated sound cannon so powerful it produces the loudest sound of any animal on earth at 230 decibels it's louder than a jet engine so loud in fact it can blow your eardrums to smithereens or even if you're stupid enough to get in close vibrate you to death sperm whales also have the largest brain of any living animal including your own by the way as 8 000 cubic centimeters sperm whale brains are on average five times larger than ours with a far more complex cerebral cortex indicating they can feel a range of emotions from empathy and joy to love and even vengeance they're also exceptionally strong a gentle flick from the tail of a juvenile can instantly kill a man and the strength of a fully grown sperm whale's flukes are so respected by whalers they refer to it as the hand of god probably because if one hits their boat they will all be off to meet him in 1820 a massive sperm whale attacked the whaling ship essex ramming her repeatedly until she began to sink only eight of the 21 crew members survived the shipwreck another famous sperm whale mocha dick was an old albino ball of remarkable size and strength he was said to have killed 30 men and was covered in scar tissue and puncture wounds from harpoons mocha dick would often charge whalers directly taking them head-on to distract them from the females in his pod he endured hundreds of encounters like this saving countless of his kind and blasting small boats to splinters with his thundering flukes if whaler legends are to be believed when mocha dick was struck with a harpoon he would single out the man responsible and personally send him to hell fitting revenge considering we used to massacre 5000 of his kind per year to turn them into candles when he was finally brought down in 1838 the whalers found 19 harpoons embedded in his enormous body these two stories the sinking of the essex and trail of destruction left by the white whale mocha dick are thought to have inspired herman melville's 1851 novel moby dick and when i say fought to have it isn't like old hermann tried overly hard to cover his tracks mucker dick moby dick i'd have failed him for plagiarism in a heartbeat but massive god forsaken whales aren't the only towers of the deep there are also a whole bunch of strange unclassifiable oddities that are horrifying revolting and dangerous in equal measure there are flesh-eating amphipods that consume any organic matter they come across and have been known to chow down on the legs of unwary swimmers there are sea spiders with unsettlingly lung legs that can grow up to 70 centimeters across and and command with a straw-like proboscis that allows them to suck the insides out of unwary prey then there are zombie worms that emerge from the decaying bones of whales like living veins and vampire squid from hell that is their real name they aren't actually all that terrifying but for some reason they have a name like a 1950s b movie there's the goblin shark a frankly disturbing deep sea monster with a lung snout and catapulting jaws that it uses to devour prey whole oh and don't forget the kandiroo a small parasitic catfish that will according to some swim up your urethra and eat your penis from the inside out that's right gents you don't have to visit a bangkok brothel for a parasite to eat your genitals colossal and giant squid arch nemesis of mocha dick and friends are examples of the zoological phenomenon of abyssal gigantism which is the tendency for deep sea invertebrates to grow to the size of godzilla villains the colossal squid a monstrous kraken-like creature is the bigger of the two and is in fact the heaviest living invertebrate species it can reach lengths of more than 10 meters can weigh as much as 700 kilograms and sports the largest eyes of any animal almost 30 centimeters across all are better to scare the out of you with colossal and giant squid are very rarely seen near the surface and much of what we know about them comes from the half-digested remains found in the bellies of sperm whales both species are living proof that the further down you go the more awful things get speaking of the oceanic abyss go down as far as 3 500 meters you might be unfortunate enough to come face to face with baffy asaurus ferox otherwise known as the deep sea lizard fish undoubtedly one of the ugliest creatures to ever inflict itself on planet earth with a snake-like head and vacant soulless eyes its dozens of needle-like teeth appear to have been expertly designed by satan to keep prey held in a vice-like grip that only tightens the more the victim struggles pretty terrifying right but what's that i hear you say no ugly fish or overweight squid could possibly be as terrifying as the great white shark the most perfect killing machine imaginable outside of a ridley scott film well don't be too hasty because whilst a cone snail is admittedly only small like the legendary beast that waits in the cave of kierbanog there's more to this cute critter than meets the eye no he doesn't have nasty big pointy teeth but he does possess a venom so powerful that a single drop can kill 20 men and his nickname the cigarette snail comes from the fact that you'll only have time to smoke a single cigarette once you've been injected with it which by the way happens via a harpoon-like appendage the cone snail can launch at its victims at 400 miles per hour in humans the venom causes muscle paralysis distorted vision and total respiratory failure unsurprisingly this is a snail that fears nothing except perhaps the french and gun toting snails aren't the only venomous monstrosities waiting for us out there in the water no i'm not talking about the children's entertainer on a budget cruise ship but and hydrina skistoster commonly known as the beaked sea snake which herpetologists that's experts on lizards not stds describe as cantankerous and savage this aggressive little bastard is responsible for more than half of all sea snake bites worldwide and up to 90 percent of fatalities what michael jordan was to dunking basketballs the beet sea snake is to filling hapless swimmers with lethal venom they usually hang out in india and can dive up to 100 meters so even scuba divers aren't safe they can stay underwater for five hours hunting fish and looking for people to kill they frequently get caught up in nets where unsuspecting fishermen's hands become the target of a venom injection more potent than that of a cobra or rattlesnake a single bite injects up to 9 milligrams of venom when 1.5 milligram is more than enough to kill you then there's the australian box jellyfish a gelatinous transparent tentacled orb that's responsible for an estimated 100 or more human fatalities per year equipped with powerful stingers and multiple eye clusters these lovecraftian monstrosities actively hunt down prey which is rare amongst jellyfish and just one of them packs enough venom to kill 60 humans a sting from a boxed jellyfish is said to be agonizingly painful can cause your cells to leak potassium and can cause heart failure in as little as two minutes as we've seen there's a lot of terrifying animal life waiting to eat poison drown or dismember you in the sea but of all the creatures that lurk beneath the waves only one can be the most terrifying okay yeah it's the great white shark carca the undisputed king of ocean terror and why wouldn't it be just look at this thing this is a monster so terrifying it has its own dedicated theme tune that plays the second you find yourself in deep water or so i'm told the great white shark is an ancient killing machine that has hardly evolved in millions of years after all how can you improve upon perfection it is the largest predatory fish in existence over six meters and a thousand kilograms of seal destroying evil that haunts coastal waters waiting to rip the legs off unsuspecting surfers great whites are responsible for more shark attacks and fatalities than any other shark species in the ocean here are just a few examples of the destruction these guys can cause shirley and durden were searching for scallops off the coast of australia when a six metre great white smashed into her ripping her in half whilst her terrified husband and children watched on when the frothing bloodied water cleared all that remained was her decapitated mutilated torso and by the time the emergency services showed up the shark had eaten that too omar hunger and his friend chris rheem were relaxing in the pacific ocean off the coast of the united states when an enormous great white grabbed conga propelling him out of the water like a ragdoll before dragging him back under seconds later the shark exploded back to the surface tossing conga's lacerated body aside although the two men made it to shore the terrible injuries congress sustained would soon end his life lloyd skinner was swimming in the neck deep water just off the coast of cape town when an enormous great white shark the size of a mini bus got hold of him dragging him underwater a pair of swimming goggles bobbing for lonely amongst the waves is all i was ever found of him just recently a woman was killed in maine while swimming 18 meters offshore with her daughter and a month before that a man was killed spear fishing in australia the fourth victim in the country this year great whites are incredibly adept ambush predators preferring to take their prey by surprise from below striking it up to 35 miles per hour with enough force to launch themselves clean out of the water and up to three meters into the air they have no trouble tracking down their victims either as they're able to detect a single drop of blood from up to three miles away and if you were thinking of trying to escape i'm afraid you're out of luck the great white can swim around ten times faster than a human being not even michael phelps would be in with a shout they are finely tuned killing machines so deadly they're completely self-sufficient from birth as soon as they're born they swim away from their mothers and get busy murdering things something which continues for the next 70 years of their blood-drenched lives you would be wise not to wear reflective jewelry in deep water as great white mistake this for fish scales and will make a bee well shark line directly towards you and if it does trap you in its 4000 psi of biting force apparently your best option is to manically punch it in its eyeball where it's most vulnerable so if you ever glimpse the unmistakable shadow of a great white shark beneath you in the ocean may god have mercy on your soul because it certainly won't thanks for watching you can now pre-order my brand new book sticker flag in it on amazon link in the description thank you

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Length: 22min 26sec (1346 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 07 2020