#53 - The Ocean: Creatures of the Deep

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ASSAP

For more info on ASSAP and their events check out their official website - 

http://www.assap.ac.uk/

The Kraken

'The Kraken' poem by Alfred Tennyson, was read from the Kraken Wikipedia page - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken

and here is the image from Google Earth that we discuss - 



Colossal Squid

image of one that was caught near New Zealand -


short video clip we watched on show of the autopsy news report - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvG0geE-nIA&index=5&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

and the full highlights of the autopsy video mentioned on the show -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drwwoJ8TAJc&index=4&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

plus plenty of info on the Wikipedia page - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_squid

Giant Squid

Squid In Toyoma Bay, Japan at the end of 2015 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZXJHuvL6s&index=6&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

The underwater footage that we watched of the giant squid can be viewed here -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35192154

Deep Sea Gigantism

Again, most of the information I got for this was from Wikipedia - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_gigantism

Milky Sea

Again, Wiki is was my friend this week -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_seas_effect

Mermaids

The art piece 'Nerina', by Juan Cabana, thought by many for a while to be evidence of Mermaids -

The 3 fake videos we watched originally from the Animal Planet specials, 

'Mermaids: The Body Found', and 'Mermaids: The New Evidence'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shKt4FPjCeo&index=8&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r9spHIe--E&index=9&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ZqPKZIlKA&index=10&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

The mermaid Skeleton video with Professor Dimitrov, another fake - 

more info here of the skeleton fakes - 

http://www.snopes.com/photos/supernatural/mermaidskeleton.asp

Cave Paintings 

The 3 pictures of cave paintings found in Africa that we look at on the show -

Also here is a short video that explains more about the Aquatic Ape Theory -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRR2Wsit1lw

Part of your world...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXKlJuO07eM&index=7&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

The Bloop / Julia

All of the sounds played in The Bloop section are from here, 

The Bloop, Julia, Slow Down, The Train -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds

Weird Fishes

Macropinna Microstoma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHCGFnvjPkQ&index=11&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

Bigfin Squid

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/this-rare-sighting-of-a-bigfin-squid-will-haunt-your-nightma?utm_term=.fu8oZ6jgPn#.laKzB3pM4r

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8xXnVkOGsA&index=12&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

Giant Oarfish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2g4Nwdxco&index=13&list=PLJ7-CbLn6EiTjGpuFZ4yk1KpxXgdVQWTQ

Blobfish

Goblin Shark

Recommendations

books -

The Wake, Scott Snyder & Sean Gordon Murphy
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Jules Verne
Moby Dick, Herman Melville

films - 
...not sure if we would recommend all of them, but we mentioned the following, (plus Splash).
Jaws
Deep Blue Sea
Open Water
The Abyss
The Little Mermaid
Splash