Disaster Large underwater observatory disappears without a trace

Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without A Trace, Baffling Scientists

A large monitoring station used to gather important scientific data in the Baltic Sea has mysteriously vanished....

gizmodo.com

A large monitoring station used to gather important scientific data in the Baltic Sea has mysteriously vanished.

The underwater observatory, which had been on the seafloor since December 2016, is managed by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel and the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht (HZG). On August 21 at 8:15 p.m. local time, transmissions from the €300,000 ($330,000) station came to a sudden halt. Divers were dispatched to the site, only to find—much to their astonishment—that the entire structure was gone, save for a shredded transmission cable, according to a GEOMAR statement.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Maybe it’s the same thing that took that Japanese island months ago

Island Goes Missing off Hokkaido

The Japan Coast Guard has launched a search for something that would not ordinarily be hard to find:...

www.maritime-executive.com

 

[Neozeonian]

Deep sea thread?

Deep sea thread.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

Pod 6 was jerks.

 

[Shoggoth]

Or, you know, Cthulhu.

Doubt it

 

[Wake me up]

We need an observatory for the observatory otherwise sooner or later hydrohomies will steal it.

 

[The Great Chandler]

Pretty misleading to assume the structure is large enough to carry people, but the premise of it sounds pretty cool!

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

The way creepier story was that tagged great white shark that suddenly took a rapid thousand foot dive off the coast of Australia, only to record a temperature spike while it was doing it. Which implies it was swallowed whole by something that then immediately jetted off to the deep. They never did figure out what the deal with that one was. The probe was recovered, but no shark was attached.

 

[Jeff Wolf]

The way creepier story was that tagged great white shark that suddenly took a rapid thousand foot dive off the coast of Australia, only to record a temperature spike while it was doing it. Which implies it was swallowed whole by something that then immediately jetted off to the deep. They never did figure out what the deal with that one was. The probe was recovered, but no shark was attached.

Is this recent? A bunch of sharks are missing in South Africa and had their livers missing a week ago. The only one I found in Australia on Gizmodo is from 2014.

According to the researchers who investigated the puzzling case, it was a “colossal cannibal great white shark.”

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Now the Sealab 2021 theme plays in my head non-stop.

 

[Belvedere]

An observatory for ants??

I read that in my mind in Zoolander's voice, now what have disappeared are my sides.

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

giant squid?

(but seriously this is unsettling)

"Ah, oui. Loligo Giganticus...wiz a razor sharp bek that can tear steel as easily as I tear a crassont.."

 

[TowinKarz]

Someone stole that shit or it was mistakenly hooked and dragged off by a fishing vessel that shouldn't have been there.

Careless Fishermen are the 5:1 favorites over industrious grey-area scrappers in my book.

 

[Slimy Time]

So are we going to go with foreign interference, incompetence of those running it or Charybdis?

 

[HoneyBadgersOfOats]

It's not like it was in the deep sea, there is a good chance it was stolen. One can still hope for the Kraken though.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

There can be only explanation for this

 

[Spicy Hog]

Lame, I thought it was a huge deep sea base that was swallowed into a dark hellscape by sun starved cultists like in 6000

 

[millais]

Doesn't look like you can get 330k for that tiny mass at the local scrap dealer's shop

 

[Matthew216]

The article makes it sound like an underwater base whose disappearance was thought to be impossible.

This is their missing observatory:
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Great! Just when I was about to state this as proof of an evil underground mole men empire.

 

[Freedom Fries]

when the Ruskies don't want you to see what's going on at the bottom of the Baltic...

 

[spiritofamermaid]

Look I'm not saying that I heard some friends finding this cool new hat.

But what I am saying is that I have no idea how it happened.