Real pictures, fake story

These pictures are being sent around the internet with the follow subject and intro:

Found At Seaside After TSUNAMI . . .
If you notice, a lot of these critters come from way deep down
Hard to imagine the (non-volcanic) forces that pushed 'em to the surface

Here's what one of my favorite myth debunking sites says about them:

Origins: It seems like any unusual or remarkable photographs connected with oceanic phenomena are being attributed to the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, and this collection of pictures is more of the same.

Although they are genuine images of some rather strange deep-sea creatures, these photographs have nothing to do with the Indian Ocean tsunami. They date from mid-2003 and were taken as part of the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Australian-New Zealand research expedition conducted in May-June 2003 to explore deep sea habitats and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea. These photographs can be viewed on Australia's National Oceans Office web site.

Even though the source isn't correct, they are still pretty damn cool pictures!

EDIT: Pictures removed for sake of loading time. You can still find them all HERE

Haven't posted in a while....

Basically it's becuase blogger.com loads pages so slowly during peak hours. Whenever I go to update this blog, it takes 30 seconds + per click. I know that I used to be able to deal with that kind of wait, but I've had broad band for too long to put up with that kind of delay. I'll give it a few more tries, but if it continues to waste my time I'll probably delete this blog.