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Oarfish in Oceanside

Ateo - 10-20-2013 at 08:53 AM

Friday after a surf with my daughter in Oceanside we came across this:










[Edited on 10-20-2013 by Ateo]

fandango - 10-20-2013 at 09:11 AM

Cool that you were there to see it. Just a few days after the large oarfish was found at Catalina.

I found a strange eel on the beach at Ensenada bay. I took a photo to Ivan who is a very experienced fisherman and he had seen it on the beach earlier that day. He said it was a deep ocean eel and his theory is that there was a disturbance on the ocean floor that caused this eel to come up, along with some very coarse sand that was on the beach.

Ateo - 10-20-2013 at 09:23 AM

Yeah, it was cool to be able to be there to see it. A fisherman friend alerted me to it, saying he's been fishing for 40 years and had no idea what it was.

durrelllrobert - 10-20-2013 at 09:26 AM

This finding was on the 6:00 news in San Diego yesterday.
CBS News
The also interviewed a lady from NOAA that was there to retrieve the carcass and she said they would cut it into thin crosswise slabs for study.

woody with a view - 10-20-2013 at 09:30 AM

how about sashimi?:light:

ncampion - 10-20-2013 at 10:02 AM

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Originally posted by woody with a view
how about sashimi?:light:



Doesn't look fresh enough for my taste.

landyacht318 - 10-20-2013 at 10:45 AM

The Japanese noticed that after these start beaching themselves, a large earthquake happens in the not too distant future.

This is the second one found in a week, the other off Catalina

Happened just before March 2011, the 9.0 that gave us ***ushima.

That recent 6.4 in the SOC might have just increased the stress on the fault further north.

Ateo - 10-20-2013 at 11:29 AM

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Originally posted by durrelllrobert
This finding was on the 6:00 news in San Diego yesterday.
CBS News
The also interviewed a lady from NOAA that was there to retrieve the carcass and she said they would cut it into thin crosswise slabs for study.


Yeah, my Mom texted me saying she saw it on Fox News as well. Yes, she's a republican.........

Pescador - 10-20-2013 at 12:26 PM

We had two show up in the shallows at San Marcos Island. We took one to the mine where they took pics and everything. It was fresh and they tried filleting it. Everyone said it tasted a lot like fish flavored Jello.

BajaRat - 10-20-2013 at 01:07 PM

Ateo, is that you in the red and white shorts ? :biggrin:

Ateo - 10-20-2013 at 01:45 PM

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Originally posted by BajaRat
Ateo, is that you in the red and white shorts ? :biggrin:


You got me. :lol::lol::lol:

BajaRat - 10-20-2013 at 02:28 PM

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Originally posted by Ateo
Quote:
Originally posted by BajaRat
Ateo, is that you in the red and white shorts ? :biggrin:


You got me. :lol::lol::lol:


:spingrin:

durrelllrobert - 10-20-2013 at 03:27 PM

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Originally posted by Ateo
Quote:
Originally posted by durrelllrobert
This finding was on the 6:00 news in San Diego yesterday.
CBS News
The also interviewed a lady from NOAA that was there to retrieve the carcass and she said they would cut it into thin crosswise slabs for study.


Yeah, my Mom texted me saying she saw it on Fox News as well. Yes, she's a republican.........
God bless her (sorry bout that) and there are some libs that watch FOX

liknbaja127 - 10-20-2013 at 06:42 PM

Ateo, good for your mom!Wild looking fish!