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Every year hundreds of people - bathers, scuba divers, poachers, fishermen - disappear without a trace in the waters of the Caspian Sea.
What happens to them is a complete mystery. There are no witnesses.
True, sometimes waves carry terribly disfigured corpses or their fragments ashore, as if shredded in a gigantic meat grinder …
Fishermen in the Caspian Sea. Illustrative photo
What kind of terrible attack is destroying the unfortunate? Some argue that the sharks are to blame. In the summer of 1998, a detained poacher who miraculously survived told one of the authors of this book the following:
- It happened not far from Fort Shevchenko. My friend and I went out to sea at Our favorite spearfishing spot. At about 10 o'clock in the morning we reached it and dropped anchor. My partner stayed in the boat, and I put on my scuba gear, took my gun and went into the depths. Less than five minutes later, I saw the giant body of a beluga a few meters away.
I thought: here's the booty! There will be thirty kilograms of selected caviar in her belly. But to shoot her, alas, is reckless. Too big. The fish is more than five meters long, and generally weighs more than a ton. It's like trying to harpoon a whale. The eye sees, but the tooth doesn’t.
I swam farther away from the fish, and my tail would hit me inadvertently. And the beluga has such that it can easily smash our boat into chips. She never attacks a person, it is dangerous only for its dimensions.
Calmed down - let him go home. I swim further - nothing deserving of attention. Only small silvery mullets fly past the mask. And suddenly I saw a healthy cigar-shaped body rushing straight at me from the haze of the depths. What is it?! Shark! And her intentions are clearly not good. At first, fear gripped the whole body, I do not remember how I shot her in the head. And she didn't even react. "That's it, the end!" - I realized. And suddenly I felt a jolt and severe pain in my back. I don't remember what happened next.
Then the partner said that he saw everything from the boat. The monster grabbed my legs and pushed me to the surface. By some miracle, I wriggled out of her jaws. A friend grabbed my hands, pulled me into the boat, started the engine and rushed to the shore. At the hospital, my bleeding wounds were stitched up and I was given a blood transfusion. I miraculously survived, but, you see, my right leg was amputated to the knee.
It is curious that the poachers were not believed then. We thought they were trying to evoke sympathy in order to avoid punishment.
You can still catch huge belugas in the Caspian. Can they attack people? Usually the beluga feeds on fish, but there are cases when even white seals (cubs) of a seal were found in the stomachs of the Caspian beluga.
Scuba for a snack
But a tragic incident that happened soon changed the point of view of even staunch skeptics. The corpse of an amateur of easy money was delivered to the morgue. The corpse, or rather, what was left of it, was caught in the fruit drink and identified. It turned out to be a hunter for black caviar, more than once involved in poaching.
The appearance of the body was terrible. Flattened face, torn to the bone flesh. Traces of many teeth were visible on the torso. How strong the jaws of the attacking creature were, could be judged by the inconceivably warped scuba gear.
The strongest steel of the air cylinders of the French company "Beuchat" is crumpled like a paper cup and bitten off! The wetsuit is in tatters. The autopsy pathologist concluded that the diver had been attacked by a large sea creature. Most likely a shark.
A creature unknown to science?
Shark? If a similar tragedy happened to a person, say, in the Pacific Ocean, there would be no doubt - this is her teeth business. But sharks are not found in the Caspian! Where do they come from here? In the distant past, they undoubtedly lived in the waters of this sea. Vacationers often find the teeth of predators in the coastal sand.
But these remains must be millions of years old. Did some of the creatures manage to survive to this day? Hardly. But then, perhaps, a monster not yet known to science lives in a giant closed sea? The answer can only be given by special scientific searches.
The legendary Cousteau team, who arrived in Russia in July 1998 to shoot a new film, tried to uncover this secret. The French ship "Alciona" (robbed in Astrakhan by local nightingales-robbers for more than 15 thousand dollars) plowed the waters of the Caspian Sea for a long time …
But so far the deadly predator remains unknown, and it is better for all vacationers in the Caspian to exercise extra caution. Any oversight can cost your life.
In 2012, the remains of an unknown creature were found in Dagestan on the shores of the Caspian Sea. At first glance, one could say that this is a mammal, it had long hair on the remains of the skin, and the skeleton looks like the skeleton of a leopard or leopard. But a leopard or leopard does not have such long hair. This plot, apparently, did not receive a continuation and the mystery of the creature remained.
Could it be … Runanshah?
The Iranians call Runanshah a mysterious inhabitant of the Caspian Sea, a half-man-half-mermaid (the word "Runanshah" means "the lord of the waters"). Researcher Jafarov from the Research Institute of Biology at the Russian Academy of Sciences claims that at the age of fifteen he himself saw Runanshah off the coast of Lankaran during night fishing.
This humanoid creature swam among the school of fish and controlled the movement of the school with waves of hand. Frightened by the cry of a teenager, the creature dived and disappeared. Later, Jafarov, according to him, again met with this amazing creature.
Runanshah lives in the water, but sometimes he is seen lying on the shore. He looks like a man of medium height, dense build, with a pale, bluish-silver skin color and green hair like algae.
Runanshah's face, although it looks like a human, still has some differences - for example, there are no ears and chin, a large and humped nose, eyes are large and round. The arms end with only four fingers, between which the membrane is stretched. The legs are shorter than that of a human and end with something like fins.
According to Samed Jafarov, in addition to the stories of numerous eyewitnesses, there is even a photograph taken from the board of the Baku fishing trawler (the captain of the vessel Gafar Hasanov managed to photograph Runanshah sailing in a parallel course). Iranian experts do not question the existence of the "lord of the waters" at all, for them he is as real a creature as, say, a sturgeon or a Caspian seal.
The Iranians also believe that the more frequent occurrence of Runanshah is associated with two reasons: the pollution of the Caspian water by intensive oil production and the "awakened" underwater volcanoes of the Caspian Sea - after all, the mermaid man loves clean water …
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