Freakiest creatures of the deep hooked by Russian deep-sea fisherman

Roman Fedorstov has definitely cornered the market on freaky sea creatures.

The Russian deep-sea fisherman has netted a massive social media following with his photos of wacky, weird and wonderful underwater critters. Frankly, many of them are terrifying.

Like this.

‪here such a smiling sea creature. Enjoy! Такое вот милое морское создание‬

A photo posted by roman_fedortsov (@roman_fedortsov) on Jan 8, 2017 at 3:41pm PST

And this.

for those who are worried about the halibut. two eyes, all right. Все нормально у палтуса. Два глаза:)

A photo posted by roman_fedortsov (@roman_fedortsov) on Jan 2, 2017 at 2:13am PST

And then there’s this otherworldly creature.

For those who like a Chimaera, here too it). Enjoy! Caught in Mauritania fishing zone. Красивая? На сон грядущий! По просьбе;) #фото_с_борта_судна

A photo posted by roman_fedortsov (@roman_fedortsov) on Dec 27, 2016 at 11:31am PST

Fedortsov is based in Murmansk, which is a port city in Russia’s far north at the Barents Sea, is usually trawling for foodstuffs, but sometimes things other than say, cod, swim into his nets.

His reports on Instagram, where he has 125,000 followers, and Twitter, where he has another 100,000 or so, were recently picked up by Science Alert. Because, well, so so weird.

#акула #shark #fish #sea #рыба #улов #fishing #рыбалка #промысел #лов #страннаярыба #изглубины #нечто

A photo posted by roman_fedortsov (@roman_fedortsov) on Nov 1, 2016 at 9:06am PDT

Are you looking at me?

friendly. angler. дружелюбный морской черт. #фото_с_борта_судна pic.twitter.com/JLvd3TmbZ5

— Роман Федорцов (@rfedortsov) January 8, 2017

Wake up! pic.twitter.com/3ZwQRrjxkr

— Роман Федорцов (@rfedortsov) January 4, 2017

Some are just beautiful. Others, the stuff of fantasy films. More are nightmare material.

I’m on the vessel 🚢… this is a Engraulis pic.twitter.com/3vOGretZZU

— Роман Федорцов (@rfedortsov) January 6, 2017

Happy New Year, friends! Flying fish. Caught in
in Morocco’s fishing zone. С Новым Годом! Летучая рыба. Попалась в Атлантике, зона Марокко pic.twitter.com/kwBa4W4s5m

— Роман Федорцов (@rfedortsov) December 31, 2016

This is one rabbit hole, or rather deep sea dive, you’ll have trouble coming up for air.

Photos Roman Fedorstov