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Ocean sunfish Face it, I’m freaky. I look like a huge flattened fish head with a tail stuck onto it. I tip the scales at 2,200 lb (1,000 kg), and I’m as long as an adult human. As I often roam near the ocean’s surface, that diver might get an early fright on the way down— but don’t panic, I mostly eat jellyfish. Chimera fish Emeralds glinting from a treasure chest? Afraid not, sucker. You’re looking at my oversize catli

for there in the waters
lurks a gruesome gang of hideous undersea creatures. Dive in!
The quest: to find a long-lost chest of buried treasure. The
surface waters down through the darkened ocean depths.
diver descends even farther, searching for a glint of gold,
Splash! A daring deep-sea diver ventures from the sunlit
MONSTERS OF THE DEEP

but is unaware of the fate that awaits…

Viperfish I could scare that diver right out of his suit with my fearsome fangs. Maybe I’ll swim straight into him as fast as I can, impaling his flesh on my terrible teeth. My hinged jaws enable me to swallow large prey whole… but something his size may be out of my depth.

Sperm whale When that diver gets a look at all 60 ft (20 m) and 55 tons (50 tonnes) of me, he’s so gonna blubber. I can eat a ton (tonne) of fish and squids a day and still have room for dessert. Lucky for him, I don’t have a taste for humans, although I may accidentally capsize boats that get in the way of my enormous tail.

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