{"id":1079,"date":"2010-12-10T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T16:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2010-12-10T12:57:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T16:57:39","slug":"why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-the-oarfish-of-the-ocean-depths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/why-i-dont-go-in-the-water-the-oarfish-of-the-ocean-depths\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don&#8217;t go in the water: the Oarfish of the ocean depths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen a bunch [where bunch = 2] of news about dead  oarfish lately, so I wanted to show you what a living one looks like. This past March, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/ur\/ocur\/lsunews\/MediaCenter\/News\/2010\/03\/item12521.html\">LSU scientist Mark Benfield released a video<\/a> showing a live oarfish in its habitat, which is apparently underwater and NOT on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/dont-go-on-the-beach-malibu-oarfish\/\">a beach<\/a> or in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/why-i-dont-go-in-the-water\/\"> iced-filled trough<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The awesomely named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serpentproject.com\/\">Serpent Project<\/a> &#8212; a painfully labored acronym &#8220;Scientific and Environmental ROV Partnership using Existing iNdustrial Technology&#8221; lets scientists use ROVs run by oil and gas companies in the gulf. The fossil fuel industry in the Gulf of Mexico didn&#8217;t quite have the best spring and summer, <em>evah<\/em>!, so  it is understandable that this didn&#8217;t get much press. Also, its about a long, disgusting fish monster. <\/p>\n<p>Still, someone took Dr. Mark&#8217;s video and set it to Holst&#8217;s Neptune the Mystic, which is as appropriate as it is satisfying. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AWfIRzJDjnc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>These guys can grow up to 56 feet long, which is frighteningly impressive. <\/p>\n<p>Also, Dr. Mark also captured footage of a ginormous pulsating jellyfish that ought to put the fear of Cthulhu into you, if nothing else does. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/why-i-dont-go-into-the-water-jellyfish-with-both-medusa-and-gigantica-in-the-latin-names-should-be-avoided-on-principle\/\">Next post<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen a bunch [where bunch = 2] of news about dead oarfish lately, so I wanted to show you what a living one looks like. This past March, LSU scientist Mark Benfield released a video showing a live oarfish in its habitat, which is apparently underwater and NOT on a beach or in iced-filled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115,18,8],"tags":[130,69],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-go-in-the-water","category-science-fandom","category-sciencegeek-porn","tag-oarfish","tag-why-i-dont-go-in-the-water","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-hp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}