Divers come upon a mysterious Oarfish off the coast of Taiwan with unidentified wounds

According to a video that has gone viral on Instagram, divers off Taiwan discovered a big oarfish with strange holes in its body. The oarfish is a mythological species that is said to predict earthquakes.

The divers can be seen swimming around a silver fish that is floating close to the surface of the ocean off the coast of Ruifang in the footage.

A diver even made contact with the fabled sea serpent, sometimes referred to as the “earthquake fish.”

The oarfish was around six and a half feet long, which is amazing but not as large as they can become, according to the divers. With a length of up to 56 feet, oarfish are the world’s longest bony fish.

Sadly, it’s possible that the oarfish’s presence in shallow waters was a symptom of its bad condition.

In his years of scuba diving, diving teacher Wang Cheng-Ru, who had never seen an oarfish before, speculated that it must have been dying since it moved towards shallower waters.

 

Additionally, the fish had odd circular holes all over its body that scientists believe were made by a cookie-cutter shark. The latter may be perplexing, but this little predator is infamous for gnawing off portions of flesh from big fish, whales, and even nuclear submarines.

Some locals think that oarfish, which reside between 656 and 3,200 feet below the ocean’s surface, are a warning of an impending earthquake, therefore their appearance at the surface may possibly have been bad news for us.

According to Japanese mythology, the skinny fish will purposefully climb to the surface and beach themselves before to a strong earthquake.

Due to the fact that hundreds of these alleged sea-based seismographs had washed up on shore in the two years before to the accident, this anxiety grew following the earthquake and tsunami that hit Fukushima in 2011.

Experts disagree, claiming that there is no proof of a connection between oarfish and earthquakes.

Hiroyuki Motomura, a professor of ichthyology at Kagoshima University, said: “There is no scientific evidence of a connection, so I don’t think people need to worry.” I think the reason these fish are often discovered dead when they are found is because they have a tendency to climb to the surface when their physical state is bad.