Video of massive six-gill shark at 3,330 feet

lol

it's a big fingy majig

Deepwater Discovery

Lovely.

It also doesn't have a dorsal fin
Except one close to the tail.
All creatures great and small
Amaze and delight the eye
That sees beauty in any form
That lives on this big ball.

When something lives 3280ft

When something lives 3280ft underwater it has little use for it's eyes.

From the video page:

"This six-gill shark (Hexanchus) was filmed during a submersible dive off the northeast coast of Molokai at a depth of 1000m (3280ft). The 2 red laser dots are 6 inches apart, resulting in a length of about 18 ft for the shark.
Great ecstatic live commentary by University of Hawaii Oceanography Professor Jeff Drazen!
Many thanks to Dr. Craig Smith (University of Hawaii) and Dr. Eric Vetter for permitting release of this footage which was obtained as part of their research data set"

6 Gill Sharks

The 6 Gill shark is prehistoric. It's an amazing creature...got to see one diving off the coast of B.C. It was a female about 15 foot long...came to about 130 feet of a huge wall. Definitely an experience I'll remember for the rest of my life. They study the sharks on Horny Island in B.C, Canada but they are getting rarer to see every year...they normally live extremely deep.

Megalodon?

Wow! Is there any idea of scale? Just how big is it? Does it belong to a known species?

Or could that thing be a Megalodon? Probably not, they're supposed to have been extinct for about three million years, but..