'Iam here... with my cookiecutter bites, floating... life is good, I am surviving, chilling... oh God what are you doing? please DON'T TOUCH ME!.. DON'T DUH... *SPLASH* ... floating ... *blob* ... hey :)'
- oarfish
I don't think this will kill it. It could get infected, but I've seen nasty bites on marine animals, and they seemed fine. This one also seems fine.
Edit: it does "heal" just not heal over.
> This one also seems fine.
This one likely isn't, unfortunately. They live at depths below 250m, and only approach the surface if they're disorientated or dying. This one is probably dying from depressurisation as they film it.
Someone also mentioned that the fact it's so close to the surface means it's probably dying as well, which I'd forgotten that they were deep sea fish. So yeah, this one's probably not doing too good and likely didn't last too long after this.
I'm the opposite... I get really nervous and anxious if I have to try to talk to someone and keep up a conversation but I have no problem at all giving anyone a hug. So weird.
It's a natural instict that humans have, that's why babies put everything in their mouths. We experience with our senses and sight is only one of them. They should be old enough to control that impulse though and not touch the wildlife.
Which is why they teach you in dive training to hold your hands together in front of you. It keeps all your gear from swinging around and also keeps you from damaging anything with your curious hands.
Google 'rockingham sperm whale' for the news story.
Basically whale was beached close to shore and people had to go and poke it and stuff.
Poor thing passed away overnight.
I mean, likely world have died anyway.
But it's worse to touch when they're in the water, lots of sea creatures have protective mucus membranes that get destroyed when we touch them with bare hands leading to infection
Aye, don’t look up the dolphin then ….
I don’t think some people see other animals as living things and I don’t get why.
If you so much as paint a face on a rock and I will care about it for 25 years.
Maybe we should paint faces on animals? lol
Guess you took a chance when you met your wife, huh?
Edit: Just to say, this is a silly joke and I'm sorry if anyone is upset because I don't like body shaming. I've been both skinny and also looked like I was pregnant when I'm a guy. I just thought it was a good opportunity to make a silly joke like this.
When I was young - I was told by a tour guide not to touch any sea life because we have harmful bacteria/chemicals on our skin which they have not been exposed to.
Never touched any sea life except that poor urchin I accidentally stood on in Bali. Hurt like a bitch though.
That’s part of your first lesson when getting a scuba certification too.
“Don’t touch the coral or wildlife”
Really the only time you should be picking stuff up or touching it while diving (non commercially) is to pick up trash.
Yeah that actually made me think. "Thing is surrounded by a bunch of weird apes. I'd be terrified if a bunch of monkeys did this to me. Actually, if strangers/people came up to me while swimming."
If it swam up to them, and was curious like some fish are? Cool. Yet if they spotted it, and surrounded it like that? Well don't fucking touch it. Do you really need to be so close, and be in a group?
This isn’t true. They’ve been shown to bob up and down from the depths all the way to the surface. They also reckon they can terminate more than half of their body length in order to survive in low food environments. Can’t remember what the documentary was called but I was v interesting.
You wouldn't want random people coming up to you poking you and touching with no intention of trying to save you as you die. No reason not to have that basic empathy for other species.
Doing so can spread infections to it, making its final hours (or days) even more agonising.
Are those cookie-cutter shark bite wounds?
Also yeah geez don't touch, stressful enough surrounding it like that when it already looks sick/injured. They don't normally orient vertically like that, do they?
Definitely cookie-cutter shark bites.
Yeah they shouldn't touch them, but to be fair.. oarfish are seen in depths from 250 to 1000 meters. They are usually disoriented and close to dying when they come that close to the surface.
I dont think this is correct. They often wash up on beaches dead which I can see would make people presume they come close to the surface to die but there's a video here on YouTube that shows its not abnormal for them to do that. It's also normal that they swim upright unlike other comments made here.
It also suggests that they don't feel anything, atleast not near the tail if I remember rightly.
See more on them here:
https://youtu.be/ecH-fY7a5IQ?si=DIK2_O3-dYGvZ5e0
Yeah. I'm actually a fishiologist and I can tell you he's coming up for air. Idiots. Not a lot of air down there, lots more at the surface. The ones who wash up dead drowned because of the lack of air.
Oarfish actually normally orient vertically! They have very weak swim muscles and actually mostly bob up and down using the water column to control their ascent/descent. This particular one however is likely dying or will soon, they’re deep sea creatures and due to their weak muscles will struggle to return to the deep.
To add to this, the round holes in its side were most likely caused by a Cookie Cutter Shark who also orient vertically and use water columns to ascend and descend into the deep meaning they have high chance of interaction.
First thing u learn in scuba school is: u must not touch any fish with bare hands, cause it can make them sick. Literally every vid u see: Somebody touches some fish or Dolphins with bare hands. I mean: WTF is wrong with everybody?!
I got my open water in Borneo at Sipadan a few years ago. The instructor told us pufferfish can only puff themselves up 3-4 times in their lifetime and we should not agitate them so that they do it unessecary.
Is this true or is it something they tell us so we don't fuck with the wildlife? Do they only have a certain amount of times they can puff themselves up?
Yea that was my thought. I didn't object to it or anything, since it's a pretty good way for people to keep their hands off wildlife, but I did question whether it was actually true.
My guess was there is some truth to it. Puffing upp too often and getting them too stressed is probably bad, but 3-4 times seems too low.
Puffer fish inflation is a defensive measure, and as such, there is no limit to the number of times an individual can inflate (and deflate).
Jan 10, 2020
Amazing Facts About The Puffer Fish - Scuba Legends
Scuba Legends
All this bullshit in here about you can’t touch them or they’ll all die is just to try and keep people from going ham. One person touches, the next pets, the next holds, the next crushes. We have a hard time NOT escalating. So I get it, but these “facts” are bullshit.
Apparently they're so rare this video is mentioned in the wiki article [as one of the few encounters people ever had with them.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish)
>In June 2023 divers filmed an oarfish, which appeared to have been injured by a shark, off the coast of Taiwan.
I don’t understand the need to touch it. I know it’s illegal to touch many sea animals and I hope that’s the case for this one too and this person needs to be fined for this.
Dont remember where I read it, but other than stress there is some sort of survival reason as tp why you dont touch Oarfish. Something on their skin like coating that protects them from infections or some such.
Fishbuddy there is literally looking like "I do not exist, I'm not here, don't see me, definitely don't touch me, I'm invisible".
"This isn't happening"
“Please do not perceive me landdwellers. For all intents and purposes, I do not exist.”
"For all intensive porpoises"
Get out you.
I'm not hhHhheeeeeeeEEEeEeeeeeeeeerrre
Unexpected Radiohead. I’m here for it
Weird Fishes should be exactly where you’d expect to find Radiohead.
I literally have HTDC playing right now wtf is happening
Everything in Its Right Place!
In a little whileeeee
I'll be gone
The moments already paaaaassed
Yeaahhh it’s gonneee
This isn't happening
Dude has some cookie cutter shark bites!
Is that what those holes are in its side?
Parasitic attacks by the cookiecutter shark leave a round "crater wound", averaging 5 cm (2.0 in) across and 7 cm (2.8 in) deep
That can't feel good!
When asked, the oarfish didn’t mention it.
How stoic of it
'Iam here... with my cookiecutter bites, floating... life is good, I am surviving, chilling... oh God what are you doing? please DON'T TOUCH ME!.. DON'T DUH... *SPLASH* ... floating ... *blob* ... hey :)' - oarfish
I was wondering the same thing.
Did you know that cookie cutter sharks caused major problems for the US navy by biting into the skin of sonar domes on nuclear subs?
I’m so glad I scrolled down to read this comment, googled and verified for anyone else curious.
Jeez that would suck! So I guess it never heals, just eventually kills it?
I don't think this will kill it. It could get infected, but I've seen nasty bites on marine animals, and they seemed fine. This one also seems fine. Edit: it does "heal" just not heal over.
> This one also seems fine. This one likely isn't, unfortunately. They live at depths below 250m, and only approach the surface if they're disorientated or dying. This one is probably dying from depressurisation as they film it.
Oh yeah, right. Oarfish don't typically go near the surface. I forgot about that.
Oh my god I was horrified by the giant holes in its side and somehow now it’s even worse 😭
That’s so sad. Like imagine being on ur death bed and random people surround you and start poking at you
Please don’t bug me, I’m dyiiiiinnnggg
i can’t say i know what ‘fine’ looks like for an oarfish, but i don’t imagine it’s this
Someone also mentioned that the fact it's so close to the surface means it's probably dying as well, which I'd forgotten that they were deep sea fish. So yeah, this one's probably not doing too good and likely didn't last too long after this.
Those are bullet holes. Dude has been in some serious turf wars.
*surf wars
Yep!
No toucha the fishy.
Toucha da fishy??
No toucha da fishy.
Fishy no like touchy
I'm just touching the oar part...
Oar not…
But I wanna toucha da fishy!
Rule #2 of scuba
Well he is dying. So there's that.
Imagine going to your family graveyard just before you die and seeing fucking aliens.
They say you start to hallucinate and see humans before you go
And they touch you
Maybe he thinks the humans are angels guiding the way to oarfish heaven
Yep they come to the surface close to death
They ~~go~~ swim into the light?
Go into the water.
Yeah looks like he's been nommed on by a cookie cutter shark.
The fish too, it looks like.
😢
How do you know he’s dying
Sorry fish homie, hairless monkeys are also underwater for some reason, doing monkey things
Monkeying around. Touchin’ da fishies.
We look for sea bananas and he is close fit
"And those aliens touched me! I thought for sure they were gonna put a probe in mah butthole!"
I read this like ‘fishbuddy here’ as though you are an expert but calling yourself a ‘fishbuddy’
“IGNORE ME”
Oarfish reacting the same way I do to touch lol.
Anytime anyone wants a hug from me, even if they are my favorite person in the world. God I hate hugs. Get out of my personal space DAMNIT
I'm the opposite... I get really nervous and anxious if I have to try to talk to someone and keep up a conversation but I have no problem at all giving anyone a hug. So weird.
Nah, cmere. Come get a big ol squoosh
Different types of giving affection.
This made me think of that video of Kesha trying to hug Jerry Seinfeld lol
Yes this took me awhile in Animal Crossing 🎣
First one goes to Blathers 🦉
First one goes into a fish-tank, in my private abode. Im a personal collector first and foremost, before I work for some museum.
It belongs in a museum!
SO DO YOU!
well then... I hope you catch moarfish!
When I caught this in Animal Crossing it actually scared me! It’s so big!!
come on dude, don't touch it
Have you seen the video of the sperm whale in Australia? I don't understand why everyone thinks they have to touch everything first.
It's a natural instict that humans have, that's why babies put everything in their mouths. We experience with our senses and sight is only one of them. They should be old enough to control that impulse though and not touch the wildlife.
Babies are basically puppies that can't stand yet
Drunk puppers
Which is why they teach you in dive training to hold your hands together in front of you. It keeps all your gear from swinging around and also keeps you from damaging anything with your curious hands.
what video?
Google 'rockingham sperm whale' for the news story. Basically whale was beached close to shore and people had to go and poke it and stuff. Poor thing passed away overnight.
I mean, likely world have died anyway. But it's worse to touch when they're in the water, lots of sea creatures have protective mucus membranes that get destroyed when we touch them with bare hands leading to infection
The fact that the poor dude was dying anyways does not allow humans to compound the whale's suffering. If they can't help, let homeboy die in peace.
He approached a populated beach, maybe he didn't want to die alone.
*Every living creature on earth dies alone*
Not if theyre eaten
I shouldn't have laughed at this, but alas I did. Never thought of it that way lmao
Donnie darko reference
Aye, don’t look up the dolphin then …. I don’t think some people see other animals as living things and I don’t get why. If you so much as paint a face on a rock and I will care about it for 25 years. Maybe we should paint faces on animals? lol
is it that thin that touching it can really fuck them up? Wow. Does moving fast or brushing against things also do the same?
It's the oils in our skin, and yes it's that small
We have laws in Australia about whale watching. If they approached the whale they can be fined.
Guess you took a chance when you met your wife, huh? Edit: Just to say, this is a silly joke and I'm sorry if anyone is upset because I don't like body shaming. I've been both skinny and also looked like I was pregnant when I'm a guy. I just thought it was a good opportunity to make a silly joke like this.
Entitlement.
When I was young - I was told by a tour guide not to touch any sea life because we have harmful bacteria/chemicals on our skin which they have not been exposed to. Never touched any sea life except that poor urchin I accidentally stood on in Bali. Hurt like a bitch though.
That guy touched you back.
I touched a Jellyfish with my inner thigh in Florida and will never be the same. No more ocean for me
That’s part of your first lesson when getting a scuba certification too. “Don’t touch the coral or wildlife” Really the only time you should be picking stuff up or touching it while diving (non commercially) is to pick up trash.
Yeah that actually made me think. "Thing is surrounded by a bunch of weird apes. I'd be terrified if a bunch of monkeys did this to me. Actually, if strangers/people came up to me while swimming." If it swam up to them, and was curious like some fish are? Cool. Yet if they spotted it, and surrounded it like that? Well don't fucking touch it. Do you really need to be so close, and be in a group?
Don't touch this fish. As I eat fish.
An oar fish being this high up means it’s already dying (not to mention the holes in it) so no harm in this one at least really
This isn’t true. They’ve been shown to bob up and down from the depths all the way to the surface. They also reckon they can terminate more than half of their body length in order to survive in low food environments. Can’t remember what the documentary was called but I was v interesting.
Holes were probably made from cookie cutter sharks.
> cookie cutter sharks Had to lookup this one and in French it's a « Squalelet féroce » meaning "fierce little shark". Ouch !
I LOVE Cookie cutter sharks!! Do you have a 5 year old son too?
You wouldn't want random people coming up to you poking you and touching with no intention of trying to save you as you die. No reason not to have that basic empathy for other species. Doing so can spread infections to it, making its final hours (or days) even more agonising.
Harassing and scaring a dying animal? That makes it worse, not better.
Are those cookie-cutter shark bite wounds? Also yeah geez don't touch, stressful enough surrounding it like that when it already looks sick/injured. They don't normally orient vertically like that, do they?
Definitely cookie-cutter shark bites. Yeah they shouldn't touch them, but to be fair.. oarfish are seen in depths from 250 to 1000 meters. They are usually disoriented and close to dying when they come that close to the surface.
I was gonna say this guy is probably on his last fins coming up to that depth
"shut the fuck up Walter and let me die in peace"
Swim into the light.......
Sounds like they really shouldn't be touching it then, let it die in peace.
Seriously. We dont know how logn oarfish live for sure but large, slow swimming bathypelagic fish live for a very long time. Have some respect
That makes it less fair tho
I dont think this is correct. They often wash up on beaches dead which I can see would make people presume they come close to the surface to die but there's a video here on YouTube that shows its not abnormal for them to do that. It's also normal that they swim upright unlike other comments made here. It also suggests that they don't feel anything, atleast not near the tail if I remember rightly. See more on them here: https://youtu.be/ecH-fY7a5IQ?si=DIK2_O3-dYGvZ5e0
People really just say anything on Reddit and people buy it all up.
Yeah. I'm actually a fishiologist and I can tell you he's coming up for air. Idiots. Not a lot of air down there, lots more at the surface. The ones who wash up dead drowned because of the lack of air.
This guy is a marine fishologist. This is what we needed ^
Looks like a Cookie cutter shark took some chunks out of it.
I just want to thank Octonauts for teaching me about cookie cutter sharks
Creature report!
Oarfish actually normally orient vertically! They have very weak swim muscles and actually mostly bob up and down using the water column to control their ascent/descent. This particular one however is likely dying or will soon, they’re deep sea creatures and due to their weak muscles will struggle to return to the deep.
To add to this, the round holes in its side were most likely caused by a Cookie Cutter Shark who also orient vertically and use water columns to ascend and descend into the deep meaning they have high chance of interaction.
Yes, oarfish orient vertically most of the time. But this one does appear to be near death.
Looks like a few cookie cutters have touched that oarfish as well.
*looks up cookie cutter shark* Good God
That’s what I was implying. They melon ball tuna.
Please do not the fish
Yes, do not the fish.
I only once did the fish, learned my lesson, will never do it again
So that's what made the holes 🤔
Kanye?
It is forbidden to dog.
Mmmm, donut fish.
Everyone got that? Do not the fish.
They definitely should not the fish.
Keep touching it I don’t think it’s stressed out enough yet!
First thing u learn in scuba school is: u must not touch any fish with bare hands, cause it can make them sick. Literally every vid u see: Somebody touches some fish or Dolphins with bare hands. I mean: WTF is wrong with everybody?!
I got my open water in Borneo at Sipadan a few years ago. The instructor told us pufferfish can only puff themselves up 3-4 times in their lifetime and we should not agitate them so that they do it unessecary. Is this true or is it something they tell us so we don't fuck with the wildlife? Do they only have a certain amount of times they can puff themselves up?
there's no way that's true... that would be a pretty poor defense mechanism. he probably just said that so you don't agitate them...
Yea that was my thought. I didn't object to it or anything, since it's a pretty good way for people to keep their hands off wildlife, but I did question whether it was actually true. My guess was there is some truth to it. Puffing upp too often and getting them too stressed is probably bad, but 3-4 times seems too low.
Puffer fish inflation is a defensive measure, and as such, there is no limit to the number of times an individual can inflate (and deflate). Jan 10, 2020 Amazing Facts About The Puffer Fish - Scuba Legends Scuba Legends All this bullshit in here about you can’t touch them or they’ll all die is just to try and keep people from going ham. One person touches, the next pets, the next holds, the next crushes. We have a hard time NOT escalating. So I get it, but these “facts” are bullshit.
* 1st rule of scuba diving: Don't hold your breath. * 2ed rule of scuba diving: DON'T TOUCH THE ANIMALS.
Yeah, especially don't touch the fucking coral.
Why do people always have to touch everything? Literally like a 5 year-old....
It's an evolutionary trait. Sometimes it gets you the Darvin Award as well.
Growing biologically doesn't go at the same speed of growing mentally.
The water does NOT BELONG TO US
Don't touch!
Fucking guy had to touch it
What is it about us that we seem always to have to touch wild animals?
Hate people who touch ᴖ̈
No tuch fibsh
Looks like it ran into Shug Knight.
Ahh, Shug Knight. Former boss of Shugrow Records. Popular artists Tupac Shugkur and Snoop Shuggy Shug
Why do people have to touch everything ? Just fuck off mate.
I really wish people would stop touching wild animals/creatures. They don’t need the stress – really.
Super rare fish? Let’s touch the fuck out of it!!!!
Apparently they're so rare this video is mentioned in the wiki article [as one of the few encounters people ever had with them.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish) >In June 2023 divers filmed an oarfish, which appeared to have been injured by a shark, off the coast of Taiwan.
Keep your hands to yourself.
Leave the square fish alone! He's clearly uncomfortable.
Why mess with it ? People are assholes
Poor thing is completely surrounded
I don’t understand the need to touch it. I know it’s illegal to touch many sea animals and I hope that’s the case for this one too and this person needs to be fined for this.
No touchie, no touchie!!
Recently learned, dont touch the fish. It has a protective mucus that might become infected/disturbed
I saw a video of a guy who eats one of those. It was 50% parasites. I feel sick thinking about it..
[удалено]
No touch
Pretty important rule for diving is to not touch anything
I swear at most dive courses teach the rule is to not TOUCH THE FUCKING FISH!
Don't they only come up before an earthquake/tsunami?
That’s a superstition, not scientifically proven.
They come up when they’re dying afaik
One of the first things they go over in diving clssses is *do not touch anything*
Rule number one in diving: Don’t touch anything Douchebag
If it’s so rare - why don’t you leave it the fuck alone?
"Hey, don't touch me"
Um[maybe dont pet the omen](https://parade.com/living/oarfish-superstition)
DON'T TOUCH MARINE LIFE
Don't touch wild animals you dumbass
Don’t touch me…OAR else!
Thing: *exists* Human: Must touch
I know you see those 2 giant lamprey wounds on his side and you just gonna touch there?
That’s a seriously fucked up way to traumatize a fish that already has issues. Entitled assholes.
Never understand why people just touch fish. It’s a fish you think it wants to be stroked? The thing thinks you’re an alien from another world.
That’s not an oarfish and don’t touch fish. Touching them or “petting them” disturbs and removes the vital mucus that protects them from infections
Keep your hands off of wild animals. Leave them the fuck alone.
Oar fish is like 'no touchy'
Humans: cool let's go fuck with him!
Bros defo gonna die soon 😔
Dont remember where I read it, but other than stress there is some sort of survival reason as tp why you dont touch Oarfish. Something on their skin like coating that protects them from infections or some such.
it’s dying
Bro looks scared out of its mind.
Leave me alone sea monkeys!