The Kraken (creature of the deep)

[Jacobcc]

I made this thread because i love things to do with sea creatures, my all time favorite sea creature is called a Kraken. It has been romoured to have dwelled off the coasts of Norway and Iceland. The sheer size and fearsome appearance attributed to the beasts have made them common ocean-dwelling monsters in various fictional works. The legend may actually have originated from sightings of real giant squid that are estimated to grow to 13 metres (46 feet) in length, including the tentacles. These creatures normally live at great depths, but have been sighted at the surface and reportedly have "attacked" small ships.

there are many different paintings explaining how the creature looks, but nothing fears me more than the one below:

Probably no legendary sea monster was as horrifying as the Kraken. According to stories this huge, many armed, creature could reach as high as the top of a sailing ship's main mast. A kraken would attack a ship by wrapping their arms around the hull and capsizing it. The crew would drown or be eaten by the monster, what do you think?...

 

[TheDuplexDuo]

I'm afraid I cannot see the picture. You want a good sea creature eh? Ever hear of the ''Cuttlefish''?

BEST. FISH. EVER​

 

[Crimson King]

Look up "carcharodon megalodon." A 53 foot great white shark that actually existed is a bit more impressive than a creature that probably didn't.

Seriously, prehistoric sea creatures were scary.

 

[Jacobcc]

I have resized the image, it now fits the screen so that you can view. Your thoughts about the Kraken?..This picture actually scares me, seeing this creature could be dwelling out there somewhere!? Just think a beast like that living in the bottom of bitter cold sea water. It makes me wonder why i should actually go out to sea!..

 

[Crimson King]

It doesn't exist nor could it. The megalodon's diet was close to 1400 lbs a day just to sustain it's size. The seas, in prehistoric times, were much more abundantly filled than they are now, also they were warmer. The size of that Kraken would be astronomical and no creature would be able to sustain that size for long. Giant squids exist in excess of 100 feet, but they are VERY, VERY few and far between and I don't think any have been spotted.

 

[Eor]

There is a possibility of large, underwater creatures still being undiscovered. Not to the size of the Kraken in your picture (or, probably, the Megalodon), but the Megamouth Shark was only discovered in 1976, which is surprising considering their size. While I have no real respect for Cryptozoology, there are a few things in there that could possibly exist in the ocean. Something like the Kraken could not, because if it was aggressive enough to attack ships, it would have been discovered by now.

But there is always the famous Bloop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop).

 

[Crimson King]

The Megamouth shark is a bad example, Eor. It's a filter feeder, meaning plankton can keep it's size up, whereas things like the megalodon, a personal favorite of mine, was a savage carnivore, an apex predator. Sadly, the large creatures that MIGHT exist will have to live off a diet of mostly plankton and the like. The one thing that really interests me is the possibility of something being in Loch Ness. Though it's highly unlikely, the Loch IS quite deep and has a pretty good food supply.

Edit: Really cool how the sunken city of R'lyeh (fictional) is located off the southwest coast of South America too. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" - "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming" Lovecraft, though probably insane, maintained he was a descendant of Cthulhu, but most took it as eccentricity. I give it no real merit, but it's still cool to me.

 

[Vinnie275]

It was rumored to be seen in northern Europe but actually exists in the Mediterranean.

It also goes by the names Leviathan and Rahab.

 

[tmw_redcell]

He is real! The Loch Ness Monster's book was right!

I think it is possible that there could be a few extremely large species that we don't know about in the ocean. I mean, if it's only mildly crazy to believe that something big could be in Loch ness then something that beig being in the ocean is downright reasonable.

I love the picture in the first post though, I've wanted to use it as a book cover or something for a long time. But an animal that big has probably never existed on Earth. But like, you know how there are people who have disorders that make them huge, maybe a giant squid could get a similar disorder, and live long enough to reign the seas for a while.

 

[Eor]

I just meant something the size of a megaldon, not something like it that will ram a ship or attack New York.

I actually really like Cryptozoology, though I don't know why. I don't respect most of the people who think it's true, though some of it I really hope for. Like those mongolian death worms. The Gobi desert is not supervised, so it is possible for there to be those things living there. Not likely at all, and I don't think there are, but it'd be cool if there were. Same with giant sea creatures. I would love if we found some 400 foot leviathan underwater, but I'm not holding out for it.

I wouldn't believe anything could live in Loch Ness, mainly because we would have had some form of evidence by now. A washed up corpse, or something of that sort. If there was a relict population there of something large, we would most likely know.

 

[Osco316]

Look up "carcharodon megalodon." A 53 foot great white shark that actually existed is a bit more impressive than a creature that probably didn't.

Seriously, prehistoric sea creatures were scary.

I think you could make a case that a lot of prehistoric creatures (including those on land) were scary.

 

[Crimson King]

I think you could make a case that a lot of prehistoric creatures (including those on land) were scary.

After reading the Meg series thus far, open water terrifies me for some reason. Just because they have pretty much a large plane to attack you from compared to the land, where the creatures there can, for the most part, only come within 360 degrees around you, not spherical.

Yes, a pack of velociraptors would be heart-attack inducing, but I think flipping overboard in the middle of the sea would be the worst case scenario.

 

[Pluvia's other account]

Everyone seems to think that Loch Ness is some sort of remote Loch far off in the hills. Heck, some people even think that we're all still painted blue, and run around getting water from wells or something.

Anyhoo, the one thing they always seem to forget to mention about Loch Ness, is all the tourist boats that sail around on it at regular internals during the day, or all the nearby tourist shops selling little Nessie teddies, or the road that drives pretty close by.

Somehow they managed to avoid all of that in this picture:

I just realised, we're so far north that even the Loch Ness is over a hundred miles south of us. There's not even a fast food restaurant or a Starbucks within 100 miles.

Gawd, that is such a depressing thought.. D:

 

[Kips]

Actually I'm scared of deep ocean. Laugh if you will but I am honestly all out AFRAID of deep ocean thanks to my irrational phobia for large sea monsters. I have consistently dreamed of being alone in a dinghy while huge sea serpents circle it.

Ironically I also love giant sea serpents. Just the sheer size, power and majesty of them overwhelm me.

 

[Undrdog]

Might as well throw this one in the pile. The reported finding of a Pleasiosaur carcass that mysteriously vanished after the local researchers claimed it to be the remains of a Basking Shark?

 

[Eor]

I have a phoebia of murky water, and I don't know why. Normally it's fine, like when I'm in a lake or something, but every now and then I'll be in the middle of a lake in the water (usually after some water sport thing) and just feel..unsafe.

The scariest moment for me in a video game is in Half Life 1, when you get to the crossbow in the cage, and it drops into the water with the sea monster inside attacking you.

 

[Weed]

The idea of unknown giant sea creatures kinda scares me, but at the same time I love it, probably the only reason I liked Pirates of the Carribean: Dead man's chest.

That Bloop thing is pretty creepy.

 

[Osco316]

After reading the Meg series thus far, open water terrifies me for some reason. Just because they have pretty much a large plane to attack you from compared to the land, where the creatures there can, for the most part, only come within 360 degrees around you, not spherical.

Yes, a pack of velociraptors would be heart-attack inducing, but I think flipping overboard in the middle of the sea would be the worst case scenario.

That makes sense.

I'd probably be scared ****less on land or on sea.

 

[Kips]

It's just this desire to see its grandiose size I guess. Things that large fascinate me, those giants of the deep. It makes you wonder how much space is down there to hold them all.

 

[Jacobcc]

It makes you wonder how much space is down there to hold them all.

It must be alot, ever heard of the expression "Endless Ocean"

 

[Zombie Lucille Ball]

The ocean itself is pretty dang freaky. There is a place in Cape Cod where when the tide is out, you can walk about 2 miles out into the sea and it's about thigh-deep. I walked about a mile out and looked all around and it's just this gulf of.... nothing...
I think it represents death... vast, unknown.

>_>
<_<

But yeah, Clash of the Titans was a great flick.

 

[Levitas]

I should be less surprised that Earthbound hasn't come up in this discussion yet.

There's a well known enemy called "the kraken" that you have to fight while travelling across the sea. It has the coolest battle music in the game.

 

[TheDuplexDuo]

It must be alot, ever heard of the expression "Endless Ocean"

The ''Endless Ocean'' isn't that endless, I completed that game in about a week. ​

 

[notftomearth7]

I think the Cracken in fokelore. However, I do believe in the concept of a sailor who saw a larger-than normal squid, flipped out, and fudged the story later to his buddies.

 

[Jacobcc]

The ''Endless Ocean'' isn't that endless, I completed that game in about a week. ​

LOL, i forgot there was a game called Endless Ocean

 

[Kips]

I would never go on a submarine, on a side note. It's too creepy with all that murky water, a sub would just be swallowed whole by a sea serpent.

 

[Jacobcc]

Check these videos out, I found them on youtube:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gCe-1LYj_4o - Toyota Loch Ness Commercial/Advert #1
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YjwOFt7_Vf4&NR=1 - Toyota Loch Ness Commercial/Advert #2

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