Real ones that is!
Not Safe For Weak Stomachs :P

http://www.who-sucks.com/animals/real-life-sea-monsters-24-bizarre-creatures-of-the-deep

scifi/fantasy are not so bizzare, after all, by comparison! hehe

You don't see any of those on the fish counter at Morrisons :lol:

Those make great reference photos for modeling some nasty sea monsters.

Thanx for the link, love it, it's even featuring my favourite colossal squid.... :)

I've been up close and personal to a couple of those when diving, the Ocean Sun fish for example, remarkable creature.
There's some really great things to see down there, and some you wouldn't want to either, thankfully they tend to stay a lot deeper than I go! [LOL].

GIll
oh I dunno when shoipping aorund GLasgow I swear I@ve seen some of 'em on two legs in there... ;)

Shawn,
aye, exactly! ;)

Ailig68,
when I was a kid, them and dinosaurs etc were always fun! :)

TheFixer
would love ot go diving! lucky sod ;)
when I was in Australia, Syndey harbour has an amazing aquarium
they had rows of pipes filled with moray eels and blue ring octopii!! gorgeous wee things actually but rather glad there's glass in front of 'em :p

Yea the blue ringed one is a particularly nasty critter, very poisonous!

I dived on the barrier reef 2 or 3 years ago, very disappointing!

Some of the best diving is the red sea in Egypt, we've [Wife] dived mostly in the Caribbean and Florida keys.

If you want to do it, go for it, it's really not that difficult and you don't need to be a good swimmer, there's virtually no swimming involved.
There is a swim test but it's easy if you do the PADI course, BSAC is a lot harder, I wouldn't have passed the BSAC swim test but I did pass the PADI one.

Health's not up to it no more bud :)
but would have loved to have.
heard the coral reefs in the Red Sea are gorgeous, glad ye hand fun! :)

saw a bit on a TV program of some nutters diving in the Corryvreckan whirlpool off Scotland, yikes! :P
they get about 10 minutes before the tide turns and they get FUBARed.
interesting how they showed bits where the vortexes have ground rocks deep into holes in the sea floor.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1426165

The best thing though is the atmosphere, the silence, the only thing you can hear is your own breathing, it's kind of surreal, hard to explain unless you've experienced it!
Going out over cliffs with 1000 Ft drop offs and getting the strangest sensation that you're going to fall [LOL], it's a strange but beautiful world down there, I love it!

Did you see this one in my gallery, that's me on the barrier reef with a Napoleon Wrasse, about 5 feet in length, big but really gentle!

*Ooooh! *nice!! :)

Hey! There's a lot of noise in that render! see, Vue sucks, that doesn't look real!!
cough ;)

yeha water must be bloody freezing up there and I know the currents are damn strong on the NE tip of Scotland. Stuff that! :p

I like this thread!  As Fixer said, it's bloody cold  here , that's why I would never swim with basking shark in Cornwall :(    :) but there are still some Whale sharks in Belize.....