{"id":273525,"date":"2017-03-02T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=273525"},"modified":"2020-10-26T02:13:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T06:13:30","slug":"horrifying-haul-russian-fisherman-pulls-terrifying-monsters-from-the-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/horrifying-haul-russian-fisherman-pulls-terrifying-monsters-from-the-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Horrifying haul: Russian fisherman pulls terrifying \u2018monsters\u2019 from the deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>\u201cTerrifying monsters\u201d? WE humans are the terrifying monsters who catch them, with now 50% fewer fishes in all oceans of the world compare to twenty years ago, destroying 200 species on Earth every day and polluting all waters\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Russian fisherman who went viral for his amazing pictures of freakish fish has returned with more incredible photos of monsters from the depths of the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer, Roman Fedortsov who works on a trawler in the Barents Sea, has built a huge following on Twitter and Instagram with his startling photographs of the unusual creatures that he catches in\u00a0the deep.<\/p>\n<p>The fish, and other strange creatures come in all manner of horrifying shapes and sizes. Some have several rows of razor sharp teeth and enormous eyes while others appear to have no eyes at all.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the fish come from the waters of the Barents sea, however, some were fished as far away as Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Fedortsov is from Murmansk Oblast \u00a0in the extreme northwest of Russia. The Murmansk region is home to the Russian nuclear fleet and boasts the only ice-free port in the arctic. He compares some of the fish he\u2019s pulled out to the terrifying White Walkers from HBO\u2019s Game of Thrones TV series.<\/p>\n<p>Several fake accounts, which are impersonating the fisherman by reposting his photos, are also gaining popularity, with one already building 19,000 followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>The fisherman does not even know the names of some of the more unusual fish that find their way into his net.<\/p>\n<p>The photos have sparked huge reaction online with many commenting on the outlandish appearance of the fish.\u00a0\u201cStraight out of alien,\u201d\u00a0one person tweeted while another said that the pictures would haunt her dreams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/379247-fish-monsters-deep-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/379247-fish-monsters-deep-sea\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: \u201cTerrifying monsters\u201d? WE humans are the terrifying monsters who catch them, with now 50% fewer fishes in all oceans of the world compare to twenty years ago, destroying 200 species on Earth every day and polluting all waters\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":280951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}