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Rescue workers on Japan's North Pacific coast are finding deepsea creatures tossed up from thousands of feet below the ocean's surface by the tsunami and washed up onto the shore. They're a fascinating sight, and my thanks to EB contributor Paul Darlaston for providing them.
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David Olive is a business and current affairs columnist at the Star, which he joined in 2001 after stints at the Globe and Mail, National Post and Financial Post.
"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
- George Bernard Shaw
David, you always post images of the most enthralling creatures, but this group of deep sea critters are hypnotically freakish. How am I to sleep tonight with those peculiar ghoulish eyes and snouts bedevilling my psyche? Oy.
Posted by: MLC | 04/16/2011 at 01:24 AM
There's an AD. for some restaurant chain currently running on TV. A group of gentlemen with mid-European accents are looking down into catch baskets on the dock - new baskets are brought - the buyer keeps shaking his head - then they all stop at one - and in inquisitory tone the buyer says "what's that?" and the fishing boat captain says hopefully "fish?" - and then the Ad. cuts to a restaurant where they ONLY serve fresh caught cod.
I will always wonder - which one of the fish above is in that basket?
Posted by: Wascally Wabbit | 04/16/2011 at 07:01 AM
Fascinating creatures, but they have nothing to do with the Japanese tsunami. This page from 2005 [http://spiralbound.net/blog/2005/08/23/fish-supposedly-washed-up-by-asian-tsunami] was written to debunk the claim that they were linked to the Indonesian tsunami...
Posted by: Damon | 04/17/2011 at 09:45 AM
I am going to get right to the important question. Can we eat them? :)
Posted by: R_DESFOR | 04/18/2011 at 10:21 PM