A few years back me and some buddies were sailing a yacht on passage to Cape Town from Europe and one evening about dusk when we were about 2 Nm off the coast of Angola trailing a lure something bit on the line, so we reeled it in to find the wierdest sea creature I have seen to date, none of us had any idea what it was, it didn't appear to have visable gils like a normal fish to stick your fingers it so my friend had a hard time removing the hook from it's mouth, it had a mutha of a set of razor shape teeth and eyes that glowed like the bioluminence you see in the waters at night.
He had to squeeze the creature so tight by the neck for fear of it slithering out of his hands that it's right eye popped out and was hanging by the socket, he got out the hook and recieved a nice wound on his finger from the shape teeth, no luck popping the eye back in and he tossed it into the sea where it belonged...... We never took a photo, stupid but at the time we weren't thinking to look for a camera and i've always wondered what kind of creature it was!!! I recently found a book lurkers of the deep that shows some similar looking creatures, this is the closest looking one to what I saw.
I think they are called dragonfish!
My question is, is it normal for deep sea fish/creatures (200 - 1000 metre dwellers) to come up to the surface like that in the evenings, maybe to feed on the bioluminence and has anyone else seen any wierd looking s**t in the sea like this???
He had to squeeze the creature so tight by the neck for fear of it slithering out of his hands that it's right eye popped out and was hanging by the socket, he got out the hook and recieved a nice wound on his finger from the shape teeth, no luck popping the eye back in and he tossed it into the sea where it belonged...... We never took a photo, stupid but at the time we weren't thinking to look for a camera and i've always wondered what kind of creature it was!!! I recently found a book lurkers of the deep that shows some similar looking creatures, this is the closest looking one to what I saw.
I think they are called dragonfish!
My question is, is it normal for deep sea fish/creatures (200 - 1000 metre dwellers) to come up to the surface like that in the evenings, maybe to feed on the bioluminence and has anyone else seen any wierd looking s**t in the sea like this???
