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Judi Lynn

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Wed Feb 17, 2016, 09:20 PM Feb 2016

Scuba Diver Experience Fish Tornado under Sea in Mexico

Scuba Diver Experience Fish Tornado under Sea in Mexico

By Zou Luxiao (People's Daily Online) 06:19, February 18, 2016



Mexican photographer Luis Javier Sandoval captured the amazing moment when a female scuba diver encountered a school of fish at 60 feet under the sea level in Cabo Pulmo National Park in Mexico. The fish gather and twist, like a tornado formed undersea.







http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0218/c90000-9018062.html

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Scuba Diver Experience Fish Tornado under Sea in Mexico (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2016 OP
Such "Tornadoes" are believe to be the basis for the Loch Ness Monster. happyslug Feb 2016 #1
 

happyslug

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1. Such "Tornadoes" are believe to be the basis for the Loch Ness Monster.
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 10:39 PM
Feb 2016

Such "Tornadoes" occur in large lakes, like Loch Ness and from the surface looks like one huge creature. People seeing such a "Tornado" but NOT understanding it is made up of 10s of thousands of fish, see it as one huge creature.

These "Tornadoes" are the product of High polarity (Fish swimming in one direction, which can be in a circle) and high Density (a lot of fish right next to each other NOT spread out). You almost get a scale monster affect (just like most "sighting" of Nessie report).

Such fish "Tornadoes" would explain the many reports of the Loch Ness Monster but why you can find one when they use sonar (Nessie only exists as long as a fish "Tornadoes" exists, then "disappear" as the fish Tornado breaks up).

The cause of the "Fish Tornadoes" is probably a predator fish (or fishes) appears and smaller fish then group up together into large and larger schools of fish till you have a "Fish Tornado". These do not last to long for the need to stay together forces the fish to swim faster and faster and slower fish are spun away from the center at increasing numbers till the "Fish Tornadoes" breaks up as to many fish are spun away from the "Fish Tornado". You have reports of Loch Ness type monsters in other lakes, including man made lakes, and the best explanation is these large "Fish Tornadoes" happening is such large lakes.

Most believers in the Loch Ness Monster do NOT like the above theory, but it is the best explanations for the known facts. Facts that include reports of large monsters in Loch Ness, and when searched no monster has ever been found (and Loch Ness itself is to small to hold a large number of such monsters, large enough in number to reproduce and the way from Loch Ness to the sea is to shadow in depth to support any large sea monster traveling up it to Loch Ness.

More on "Raystown Ray" the reported monster in the man made lake of Raystown In Pennsylvania:

http://www.raystownray.com/

http://blog.pennlive.com/wildaboutpa/2015/06/raystown_ray_seen_as_pennsylva.html

Please note the infamous photo of the Loch Ness Monster with its head above water is fake.

Here is the hoax photo:



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

You can tell it is a fake by looking at the wave patterns around the "Monster", they go in all directions equally, like something put in the water and then someone stepped back and took the photo. If this was real, you would see a V pattern behind the "Monster" as the "Monster" moved through the water, a V pattern you see on any duck or boat going through the water.

Raystown Ray has a better photo, but at 13 1/2 square miles (compared to 23 Square mile for Loch Ness, and Loch Ness is also considered to small for a population of such monsters) considered to small to hold onto a variable population of LARGE Sea Monsters.



My comment is looks like a stag, i.e a tree sticking out of the water. Raystown Lake has a lot of stags and other dead trees and if you are far enough away easy to mistake for something else. Raystown lake is in a valley in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania, it has two steep hillside as the result of Raystown River cutting down the mountains over millions of years. Loch Ness is actually in part of the original Appalachian Mountains which reformed when the Atlantic Ocean opened up separating Europe from North America. The Highlands of Scotland are the European remains of the Appalachian Mountains and have a very similar topography for that reason (steep hillsides but eroded over 10s of millions of years).

Side note: The Appalachian Mountains first formed when Europe ran into North American about 480 millions years ago, but are believed to have been completely eroded when the Super Continent of Pangaea started to break up about 175 million years ago. How the mountains reforms is presently unknown for present theory holds mountains are formed when continent hits each other (The Alps, the Caucasus and Himalayas mountains are of this type) or when a continent overrides a ocean basin (The Western Mountains of North and South America AND the mountains of Japan, Eastern Siberia, Korea, Philippines, the East Indies etc). None of these explain the return of the Appalachian Mountains for in that case the Continents went in different directions not into each other. Thus the Highlands of Scotland and the Mountains in Arkansas the Oklahoma were part of one large mountain chain 175 million years ago, but separated by the Atlantic and the Mississippi River valley.

Please Note the Adirondack Mountains in Up State New York are for political reasons (and all practical modern reasons) are considered part of the Appalachian Mountains, but geologically they are not. Unlike the Appalachian Mountains the Adirondack are actually growing and has been doing so for the last 10 million years.

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

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

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

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

Thus Raystown Lake and Loch Ness are in similar geological areas but by geography thousands of miles away. That also tells you how long these mountains have been subject to erosion. Thus you can expect similar effect given the similar geology, thus the reports of "Raystown Ray" and the "Loch Ness Monster" occurring.

Just a comment that these "Fish Tornadoes" occur more often then we think and can explain a lot of things people have claim to see below the surface of any body of water.

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