Possible Megalodon in Mariana trench

[TheSearcher]

Yeah when I re-find it all I'll post it but it was scientific data and not tabloid like other reports have been.

The monsterquest episode on the devil fish was based on the eyewitness reports to date, and yes they did find a whale shark, but eyewitnesses to the actual "shark" say it is not a whale shark. That's just all monsterquest could find with their limited filming budget, although it was pretty suspense filled when the morons jumped into the water when they found the whale shark not knowing what it really was. What if it HAD been a meg... Would jumping in the water have been so wise? LOL.

It would be interesting indeed to find the source of that again. I did some searching and honestly didn't find anything relating to that. The 10.000 years old fossil myth has been around for a while, but there was never any evidence or it has been corrected.

[capoeiranger]

Oh wow...three years since I've left this forum and still see this thread going on with the same argument and denial over and over again. This one sounds like a broken record to me.

[GreatFenris]

Oh wow...three years since I've left this forum and still see this thread going on with the same argument and denial over and over again. This one sounds like a broken record to me.

Welcome back CR.

Must say it's an honour, you're one of the people that got me to sign up here*smiles*

[The Maloik]

if it were real,somehow or another,i think it would have made it's presence known by now!

[TheSearcher]

Oh wow...three years since I've left this forum and still see this thread going on with the same argument and denial over and over again. This one sounds like a broken record to me.

It actually was dead for a year or so, till someone necroposted. Since then we are going full steam again

[anand550]

wht ever the results would be.. the scientists should release this footage,maybe they cant understnd but ther are also other people in this world who may can solve this question.

[J.B.]

The most likely place for a giant shark to exist would be Japan's trecnhes where the Sperm whales and Giant squids fight. Best food sources there. We might not have found the shark yet, if it existed, but we'd already see evidence for it in the form of tooth marks on whales. That's how we first identified colossal and giant squids, if I recall correctly. Whale marks.

Edited October 16, 2010 by J.B.

[ShadowSot]

The most likely place for a giant shark to exist would be Japan's trecnhes where the Sperm whales and Giant squids fight. Best food sources there. We might not have found the shark yet, if it existed, but we'd already see evidence for it in the form of tooth marks on whales. That's how we first identified colossal and giant squids, if I recall correctly. Whale marks.

no, we found the remains, coupled with sightings.

wht ever the results would be.. the scientists should release this footage,maybe they cant understnd but ther are also other people in this world who may can solve this question.

Someone posted it here at some point. The original post was just a hyped up release, the shark was a sleeper shark. Not uncommon.

[Orkid]

its in youtube.. i dont know which shark it is..

[ShadowSot]

its in youtube.. i dont know which shark it is..

Sleeper shark.

I'm getting to the point where I want a parrot.

Edited October 16, 2010 by ShadowSot

[MstrMsn]

AZALIN, My ex- husband was a Navy Officer on a boomer sub they go alot deeper then you think, But the point i was making was a creature this large would take alot of food to live, and i would think it would have to come up to hunt since the creature's living that deep would not be large enough to feed some thing of this size. <!--emo&--><img src='http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='no.gif' /><!--endemo-->

And they really don't go down as far as you think. The submersables the Navy has for deep sea salvage can go deeper than the subs do. Also, the Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean. Around 7000 feet shallower than the Mariana. Our subs can't go that far, in fact, the submersables can only go down a few thousand feet, max. As for our Navy not seeing them, that's why (along with the probability they really don't exist anymore, but even if they did, our Navy wouldn't necessarily encounter one).

[American Chupacabra]

Just found this on google. The info is actually a few months old, but I can't find any mention of it on the site using search so I guess nobodies commented on it.

<b>Possible Megalodon in Mariana trench</b>

The deepest portion of the Pacific Ocean, the Challenger Deep, is located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific.

Recently, Japanese researchers have conducted an interesting experiment in the Suruga Bay, not far from the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the World Ocean.

The researchers put a container with some smelly bait on the bay bottom. A special video camera was attached to the wall of the container. The researchers peered into monitors to see what would happen with the container and the bait.

The smell of the bait attracted a shoal of deep-water sharks. But then the researchers saw something incredible that left them speechless. Suddenly the sharks scattered in all directions and researchers saw an incredibly huge monster on the screens of their monitors.

The giant slowly soared before the video camera at a depth of about 1.5 kilometers. The length of the sea Goliath was over 60 meters (more than 180 feet). It was not clear what the giant was in fact.

Researchers failed to answer the question, just made conjectures concerning what the creature may be. They said that might be a sleeping shark, the largest shark . Even now people know just few facts about these sharks.

They have been hiding in the dark ocean deeps for millions of years. People have never seen live sleeping sharks as well as giant squids. Only once, in 1964, a bulk of a dead sleeping shark was cast ashore in Indonesia; it was just a very young shark judging by its size of 26 meters. ..PRAVDA 9/20/03

"Scientists still do not know what they saw, registered and filmed and not a single frame has been released. If it was a giant shark Megalodon is a good candidate, even though this monster is thought to have died out 170 million years ago; see our features Megalodon the Monster Shark and New Evidence for Megalodon.

If it was a classical sea serpent it´s easy to understand why the Japanese scientist´s are cautious and would like to analyze the video footage very careful before releasing it to the world."

<a href='http://www.cryptozoology.st/' target='_blank'>GUST</a>

Can you send me the link to the site you found that (not just "google") ? If you still can find it again. This is a really cool sighting if it's true

Edit: The link you have doesn't work...

Edited October 18, 2010 by American Chupacabra

[psyche101]

Oh wow...three years since I've left this forum and still see this thread going on with the same argument and denial over and over again. This one sounds like a broken record to me.

It has been three years?

Good to see you back old friend.

[Meg_Man]

I actually tend to think that the BBC, the San Diego Natural History Museum and practically every other source of repute knows better then you.

Megalodon's extinction is still shrouded in mystery. The exact time of its extinction is unknown. However, some Pliestocene records of Megalodon have been found and reported.

Do you realise that every single one of these claims have been refuted over and over again in this thread?

Welder seems to be an advocate of Megalodon's survival. He is wrong at this point. However, a few of his points are not as dumbfounded as you may think. Some elaboration below:

Megalodon was a coastal shark - This is a speculation. It remains to be determined that whether it was strictly coastal or loosely coastal species. Megalodon's fossils have been found in many parts of the world. Several of such places are deep in the oceans. Most notable examples are Pacific trenches and Guam. Strictly coastal animals are typically small and they do not make such long migrations.

it's very possible that it has adapted to a different food source once the larger prey in the sea began to extinguish - This argument is valid in its context. Predators do try to adapt to changing conditions around them. Whether they succeed or not is a different argument. The unstable climatic conditions since late Miocene caused significant extinctions within the marine environment. During such circumstances, Megalodon would have been going after anything which it could catch. It would also have been tempted to explore more regions for food.

The rest is open to scrutiny. And this thread already contains the answers as you pointed out.

Is this the incident you mean? The tooth was found in 1872. Even this website that supports cryptozoology admits that the experts generally agree upon time of the megalodon is 1.5 million years.

The dating of 10,000 years was done in 1959 using a method that doesn't seem to be recognized as reliable.

Here is the tooth in question -

If I remember right it was hollow as well.

That tooth was actually found to be untestable for age. Here is confirmation.

Great white distribution

Here is an unofficial distribution map of white sharks from reputed experts:

The red boundaries indicate the lurking range of white shark around the world.

The pressures in the trench would smoosh the sharks.

They would kill anything not adapted to live under such depths.

Edited December 4, 2010 by Meg_Man

[Asdead]

[UFO_Monster]

I heard the Japanese commentator using the word "kaiju" ("monster"). That is an accurate assumption, and this is monumental.

But it's four and a half years old, so why it hasn't been examined further is beyond me.

Edited February 28, 2011 by UFO_Monster

[GreatFenris]

I heard the Japanese commentator using the word "kaiju" ("monster"). That is an accurate assumption, and this is monumental.

But it's four and a half years old, so why it hasn't been examined further is beyond me.

That video has been analysed to death, in this very topic if I recall correctly.

[UFO_Monster]

That video has been analysed to death, in this very topic if I recall correctly.

Oh. What about debates not being held in UM?

[Mr.United_Nations]

Oh. What about debates not being held in UM?

It's a sleeper shark if I recall, rare though and hardly seen.

[SHaYap]

best footage of the deep sea sharks i've seen, notice the laser indicators giving a better idea of it's size

[ali smack]

I have seen that video and "the shark" is huge,

Is it possible it's a whale shark or am I been an ignorant fool?

[Clobhair-cean]

It's a sixgill shark, it says so in the video title. Not even a particularly big one at 12 feet, as they can grow up to 18 ft.

[SHaYap]

It's a sixgill shark, it says so in the video title. Not even a particularly big one at 12 feet, as they can grow up to 18 ft.

actually this one is as big as it comes :

Dr. Eric Vetter of Hawaii Pacific Univeristy was on board the submarine and said, "We're pretty much blown away. Usually we're seeing small eels, small crustaceans, shrimp, things called anthropods, but in this case we had what appeared to be a 17 feet to 18 feet, six gill shark and there was a lot of excitement in the submarine."

here

[CarbonBlack]

I'd been about to post this Japanese video from youtube that fit OP's description, bu clearly someone else has done it already, so.

That last video is awesome. What a weird looking shark.

Edited February 28, 2011 by CarbonBlack

[SHaYap]

I'd been about to post this Japanese video from youtube that fit OP's description, bu clearly someone else has done it already, so.

That last video is awesome. What a weird looking shark.

there is another one, a deep ocean frill shark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIwCH3-AlFU&feature=related

at 0.20 onwards

Edited February 28, 2011 by third_eye