'Doomsday fish' washed ashore in California, but what does that mean?

[Zorro]

If one oarfish landing on a beach is a sign of a disaster to come, how bad will it be if three wash up in quick succession?

A silvery 10-foot-long creature, the oarfish has fueled fisherman’s tales of sea serpents — and in some cultures has been a portent of natural disasters.

It’s rare to see an oarfish up close in California; only 22 have washed ashore since 1901, according to UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. But in the last three months, three of them have surfaced on Southern California beaches.

The latest was on Nov. 6, when an oarfish was discovered at Grandview Beach by Alison Laferriere, a doctoral candidate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The other two beached in La Jolla and Huntington Beach.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-11-21/doomsday-fish-washed-ashore-in-california-but-what-does-that-mean

[FoggyLake]

1. I've heard that it's a bad omen.

So, it makes sense.

[Submariner]

2. We're in the midst of the 6th extinction

An Anthropocene destruction of life planet wide.

Get used to it.

[Nigrum Cattus]

4. 100%

Advanced sonar is also driving them from the deep, as well as beaching
of Cetaceans. Overpopulation in the nail in our collective coffin, sad.

[SledDriver]

3. We just had an 80,000 year naked eye comet last month

Comets are harbingers of doom.

Mars, the bringer of war, the planet reaches a perihelic opposition in 2025 too.