Bizarre deep sea shark shocks fisherman: ‘stuff of nightmares’

A gruesome-looking uncommon shark noticed in Australia is reeling in terrified Fb customers.
Fb / Trapman Bermagui

Is that this dastardly, alien-looking creature truly a uncommon, deep-sea shark?

You higher be-reef it.

An Australian fisherman posted a photograph of the beast of the deep blue — one described because the “stuff of nightmares” by commenters — after reeling it in from 2,133 ft beneath the floor, Newsweek reported.

Believing he’d noticed a deep-sea roughskin shark, Sydney fisherman Trapman Bermagui posted a snap of the ocean lurker on Fb Monday, and the picture has since viral. The weird discover sparked replies of sheer concern — and a few humor — towards the bug-eyed, listless creature from the abyss.

“The deep sea is one other planet,” one consumer wrote.”

“Solely [a] mom may love that,” commented one other.

This fishing group is in debate over what kind of uncommon shark a fisherman in Australia lately reeled in.

Smithsonian Tropical Analysis In

However what precisely was Bermagui’s eerie catch of the day? Specialists are chomping on the bit to seek out out.

It might be a roughskin dogfish shark, recognized additionally as Centroscymnus owstoni, based on Dean Grubbs, an affiliate analysis director at Florida State College’s Coastal and Marine Laboratory.

“In my deep-sea analysis, we now have caught fairly just a few of them within the Gulf of Mexico and within the Bahamas,” he advised Newsweek. “They're within the household Somniosidae, the sleeper sharks, the identical household of the Greenland shark, however clearly a a lot smaller species.”

Grubbs added that he incessantly finds the dogfish at depths between 2,400 and three,800 ft. Bermagui, too, chimed in, saying the sharks are “widespread in depths better than 600 meters” in his a part of the world.

“We catch them within the wintertime normally,” the Aussie fisherman mentioned.

One knowledgeable believes the creature to be a deep-water kitefin shark, formally the Dalatias licha.

“Appears to be like to me like a deep-water kitefin shark, that are recognized within the waters off Australia,” mentioned Christopher Lowe, director of California State College at Lengthy Seaside’s Shark Lab. “Nevertheless, we uncover new species of deep-water shark on a regular basis, and lots of look similar to one another.”