Although it is extremely speculative, might we imagine that the Russian (and for a time Soviet) authorities are aware of some kind subaquatic species and presence? Lake Vostok is the largest of more than 145 subglacial lakes most of them several kilometers longthat have been discovered under Antarctica in past decades. While the reasons for this are perhaps legitimate, even noble enough, and while the scientific work, for the most part, is equally legitimate and very much worthwhile, such secrecy simply plays into the hands of those who would prefer to muddy the waters of history. Description Organism 46-B was an enormous 33ft (10m) long, 14-tentacled squid-like creature which lived in Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake located under two miles of ice beneath Vostok Station in the Antarctic. We encountered Organism 46-B on our first day. Although male octopuses have been known to rip off their own arm that serves as their sex organ and give it to the female. Welcome to Episode 109: Lake Vostok & Organism 46-B! The project to probe the Great. After all, it wouldnt be the first time that shadowy governments of the world have stated one set of intentions and then discreetly carried out another. Tragically my colleague and lifelong friend was killed this way. The story has been picked up and spread across conspiracy sites and headlines (mostly tabloid papers/sites like the Daily Express from the UK). You may not republish the article in its entirety. . The story seems to combine the abilities of all the different octopuses and squids (some octopuses do actually release paralytic toxins along with mucus from their ink sac). A partial skeleton of the "La Brea woman" was found in 1914. [citation needed] The Russian team plans to eventually lower a probe into the lake to collect water samples and sediments from the bottom. [40] The lake is under complete darkness, under 355bar (5,150psi) of pressure, and expected to be rich in oxygen, so there is speculation that any organisms inhabiting the lake could have evolved in a manner unique to this environment. To investigate do research and retrieve possible life not seen since the prehistoric era like Hairy crabs, jellyfish and starfish, realistic expectations but for 5 days the Russian research team had entered the 4000meter drilled borehole and not made radio contact.eventually the team emerged with reported casualties bit no exciting discoveries or so the Russians had told the world and suspiciously sealed the borehole.Dr Anton Padalecki ok so Apparently Dr Anton Padalecki was the lead Russian researcher sent on the dangerous expedition 4000 meters below the Artic Vostok Research station to Lake Vostok and had Apparently returned empty handed not even one hairy crab according to the Russians. The Russian government has denied all knowledge of these claims. If this crude oil seeps upward via fractures, conduits, or porous sedimentary rock layers, it may pool up at the surface. The creature disabled the radio during the attack, cutting off the researchers contact with the outside world. Unlike its distant cousin, it is roughly the size of a colossal squid, with 14 arms and abilities similar to several other species in the Cephalopoda class. I was reading about Organism 46b, and as stupid as it sounds, it's definitely plausible. [13] So far, the scientists have been able to identify 255 contaminant species, but also have found an unknown bacterium when they initially drilled down to the lake's surface in 2012, with no matches in any international databases, and they hope it may be a unique inhabitant of Lake Vostok. It most closely resembles a massive 10 meter (33 foot) octopus with a total of 14 arms. Organism 46-B is a terror out of a sailor's Lovecraft influenced kraken filled nightmares. We thought it was one of my colleagues swimming towards us in scuba gear. The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition has argued that this manner of drilling is a profoundly misguided step which endangers Lake Vostok and other subglacial lakes in Antarctica (which some scientists are convinced are inter-linked with Lake Vostok). Several hundred species of eukaryotic organisms also live in the water, including over 100 multicellular species. ?So today's Conspiracy theory is probably one of my all time favorites and gave me the creeps the first time I came across it, a real Hollywood horror story. [4] Kapitsa was the first to suggest the existence of a subglacial lake in the region,[5] and the subsequent research confirmed his hypothesis. According to this information, a specialized elevator was installed within the icy surface which allowed equally specialist and selected scientists to travel down to explore this previously unseen environment. For example, ice core drilling typically produces a passage only a few inches in diameter, certainly not large enough to transport a person through two miles of ice, never mind a tank capable of containing a 33-foot long aquatic creature. Also, no light penetrates that deep, making the defense mechanisms described seem unnecessary in such an environment. By the time the crew member had resumed the form of the octopus (46B) that it actually was, the biologist had been ripped to pieces by this deadly creature. One of those critical of the activity was researcher and author, Steve Quayle. Your email address will not be published. Padalkas account described his team as SCUBA divers repeatedly. It will use creative tactics to ambush its prey or to render its victims helpless before it strikes. Dr. Padalka fled the country after allegedly discovering that Russian president Vladimir Putin had plans to weaponise Organism 46-B. This was made up by the fiction author C. Michael Forsyth [1]. It could be a guardian to the entrance of some undersea subterranean realm, a guard to some other unknown secret, or simply brute labor run amok. Lake Vostok (Russian: , ozero Vostok) is the largest of Antarctica's almost 400 known subglacial lakes. The largest of these i Confiscating it for security. Another inconsistency involves the fact that the ice directly above the water in the lake is formed from lake water itself. However, Organism 46B is much more evolved. After finally trapping the creature in a tank, the surviving members of the team brought it to the surface where they claim Russian officials seized the beast and told the international press that nothing had been found. Even taken as is, Norman Osborn would likely have great interest in the story and would be out to get his own genetic samples. The lake constitutes the coldest naturally occurring conditions thus far recorded on Earth. The creature tore the stunned man apart before consuming him with its beak. We will come back to this later. Only with more grasping sucker covered arms. Before we look a little further at some of the recent claims we will remind ourselves of just why, at least officially, Lake Vostok is of interest to scientists in the first place. Homepage hero illustration: Guillaume Martinez. We have examined before the claims of the secret Nazi Base 211, a facility that housed a plethora of highly advanced technology. The environment is similar to what might potentially be found on Europa if water exists deep below its thick sheets of ice. [7] The average water temperature is calculated to be around 3C (27F); it remains liquid below the normal freezing point because of high pressure from the weight of the ice above it. Organism 46-B is said to be an enormous 33ft-long, 14-tentacled squid-like aquatic creature which lived in Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake located under two miles of ice beneath Vostok Station in the Antarctic. At that point, the drill was to be stopped and extracted from the bore hole. ", Later, while diving in the lake, the group was attacked, the creature releasing its venom which took hold of one of them. It is also able to paralyze prey from a distance of up to 150 feet by releasing its venom into the water. It is what the powers that be pretend it to be. As we mentioned earlier, in late-2016, numerous political and religious leaders from across the globe would converge on Antarctica. This mystery is cultivated, in part, by international powers that insist on secrecy and place the vast majority of the icy region off-limits. They returned to camp with their prize. You may republish short quotes from this articlewith a reference back to the original UFO Insight article here as the source. Dr. Anton Padalka claims to have been part of the first scientistific expedition to explore the lake. 2. Indeed, as we know from the published experiments at Lake Vostok, there most certainly is water below under the ice. Underneath Antarctica's miles of ice, you'll find approximately 400 subglacial lakes. [7] The researchers then switched to a new thermal drill head with a "clean" silicone oil fluid to drill the rest of the way. If so, it may be a pet of ancient gods who penned it in the lake for safekeeping. The assumption is that the lake has been sealed from the surface since the ice sheet was formed 15 million years ago. After finally trapping the creature in a tank, the surviving members of the team brought it to the surface where they claim Russian officials seized the beast and told the international press that nothing had been found. Some versions of Spider-Mans origin story have him bitten by a genetically engineered super-spider with the abilities of all the differing species of spider. [4][5] The continued research by Russian and British scientists[5][6] led to the final confirmation of the existence of the lake in 1993 by J. P. Ridley using ERS-1 laser altimetry. Largely because it appears to emulate the potential conditions of somewhere much further afield. The primary issues with DCI (decompression illness) stem from us having lungs and not gills, and breathing pressurized air at depth which expands as you rise. Not least due to the apparent reasons for the confiscation of the strange creature. According to Padalka, Russian authorities plan to weaponize the paralyzing venom, as well as the shapeshifting properties of Organism 46B. 01:33:42 - SKIP TO 00:17:00 TO GET TO THE STORY Welcome to Episode 109: Lake Vostok & Organism 46-B! "It shaped itself into the form of a human diver. The sheer weight and pressure around 345 bars (5,000psi) of the continental ice cap on top of Lake Vostok is estimated to contribute to the high gas concentration. There was no mention of any other special equipment like an atmospheric diving suit or bathyscaphe to deal with the pressure. The drilling team left by aircraft on 6 February 2011. Furthermore, according to these rumors, there is another continent deep below the ice. [52][53] Since then, a different team led by Scott O. Rogers has been identifying a variety of bacteria and fungi from accretion ice (not from the subglacial water layer) collected during U.S. drilling projects in the 1990s. And ones far from beneficial for humanity in the long run. The data from ERS-1 confirmed the findings from the 1973 British surveys,[20] but these new data were not published in the Journal of Glaciology until 1993. [36][43] Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus may also harbor lakes or oceans below a thick crust of ice. [4] The coalition has asserted that "it would be far preferable to join with other countries to penetrate a smaller and more isolated lake before re-examining whether penetration of Lake Vostok is environmentally defensible. Read more about how we fact-check content here. The tale of its discovery was told by a defecting Russian scientist who was present when it was discovered. This was why the drilling team realized that there was an underground lake in the first place. APs of power can be assigned to parts. Antarctic glacial ice covers the lake, roughly 4,000 meters thick. The largest of these is Lake Vostok, discovered during the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions of 1959/1964 and later confirmed by British scientists in the early 1970s. I also went with Chameleon over Color since the mechanics are clearer with the Chameleon power (including the values to check to see through the disguise). Water blast requires water be available for the Organisms siphon to squirt. Dubbed Lake Carter, the Americans have leaped upon this discovery, sending out an expedition to drill through the ice sheet and probe the mysteries of the maddeningly deep abyss Organism 46b A few extra resources If you're going to run this scenario, go ahead and listen to the "Organism 46b" episode of The Cryptid Keeper. Perhaps Organism 46-B is actually the Kraken of legend. [36][44], Researchers working at Vostok Station produced one of the world's longest ice cores in 1998. The creature designated Organism 46-B was an aquatic beast allegedly captured by a Russian scientific team near the research outpost Vostok Station. With an average depth of 432m (1,417ft), it has an estimated volume of 5,400km3 (1,300cumi),[2] making it the 6th largest lake by volume. The lake is named after Vostok Station, which in turn is named after the Vostok (), a sloop-of-war, which means "East" in Russian. A Place Of Needless Secrecy And Self-Imposed Suspicion. Andrey Kapitsa Insight Lake Vostok The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man UFO 270 Tags 1 Tweet 1 Twitter List 375 Reflections from Mars may be caused by something stranger than water . The scientists who first encountered the creature believed it released the venom into the water from an organ similar to a normal octopus ink sac. [14] Also Sergey Bulat, a Lake Vostok expert at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Gatchina, Russia, doubts that any of the cells or DNA fragments in the samples would belong to organisms that might actually exist in the lake. What should we make of such claims? There are several things about the story which make it likely to be fantasy. The creature designated Organism 46-B was an aquatic beast allegedly captured by a Russian scientific team near the research outpost Vostok Station. Weighing in at close to a ton, it is on par with the largest cephalopods ever known to live in the deep. "Senior Community 55/40 - Fully Remodeled Lake Front Home. We do not aim to prove nordisprove any of the theories, cases, or reports. It is also able to paralyse prey from a distance of up to 150 feet by releasing its venom into the water. The Lake Erie sample exhibited many signals of human habitation, while the Lake Vostok ice samples exhibited no signals of human habitation. He decided to use a specimen tank to hold it; but they would need bait..A former professional athlete, Dr. Marta Kalashnik was chosen for the task. And what's more, it can do so from 150-feet away. [75], Some environmentalist groups remain unconvinced by these arguments. Our motto always is, "you make up your own mind". Specimen 46b as the Russian scientists have labeled it, is a very different form of Cephalopod. Drilling of the core was deliberately halted roughly 100m (300ft)[45] above the suspected boundary between the ice sheet and the liquid waters of the lake. A more outlandish theory is the possibility a severed tentacle could grow back into a full creature. We take a look at a mysterious creatures that was discovered by Russian scientists. The liquid water depth over the ridge is about 200m (700ft), compared to roughly 400m (1,300ft) deep in the northern basin and 800m (2,600ft) deep in the southern. Cryptid Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. The Russian military seized the discovery on the orders of Putin, himself. [56][57] Taxonomic classifications (to genus and/or species) or identification were possible for 1,623 of the sequences. Space-based radar revealed that this subglacial body of fresh water is one of the largest lakes in the world, and one of some 140 subglacial lakes in Antarctica. This seems unlikely given the pressure caused by the ice. Organisim 46 B Killer Squid from Lake Vostok the Subglacial lake.Ok guys so just like most conspiracy theories this is going to get a little complicated so just bear with me.Lake Vostok was only discovered in 1974 after the Russian Soviet had established a research station above it in 1967.once the Russians had discovered there was a fresh water subglacial Lake some 4000 meters (2 miles) below them, they began a 30 year long drilling operation to drill to the fresh water Lake that was aptly named after the Russian research station Lake Vostok.In 2015 news articles started to circulate about a team of Russian Reasrchers who had gone missing on an expedition down to the subglacial Lake. However, once they did venture down below the surface of the Antarctic ice, they would discover something altogether deadlier. In his book Empire Beneath The Ice he would ask the blunt question What really is going on down there? He would follow this with, I dont think the Russian Patriarch Kirill is going down there to meet penguins. 46-B is similar to the Indo-Pacific Mimic Octopus and has extraordinary camouflage capabilities. And whats more, this alien presence gives orders to the religious and political leaders of our day. The only human presence on Antarctica is a collection of international scientists. However, rather than the usual 8 arms of an octopus it had a total of 14 arms. Tar pits, sometimes referred to as asphalt pits, are large asphalt deposits. Even stranger, within this inner Earth was another species, perhaps indigenous, perhaps extraterrestrial, but certainly not human. [7] Lukin has repeatedly reassured other signatory nations to the Antarctic Treaty System that the drilling will not affect the lake, arguing that on breakthrough, water will rush up the borehole, freeze, and seal the other fluids out. Another point to note is that Dr. Padalka has so far proven impossible to locate (although this may be due to his being in hiding), and the account is known from only a handful of vague sources. This resulted in an estimate that the entire volume of the lake is replaced every 13,300years its effective mean residence time.[30]. It is also believed that Organism 46-B can regrow its tentacles after having them severed. It was capped to prevent potential contamination of the samples. We watched helplessly as it used its arms to tear off its head then popped its remains in its mouth. A Deadly Octopus That Can Mimic Other Species! "[4], Lukin claims that hot-water drilling is much more dangerous for the microbiotic fauna, as it would boil the living species, and disturb the entire structure of water layers of the lake. The author does not own the rights to this content. Sequences from aerobic, anaerobic, psychrophilic, thermophilic, halophilic, alkaliphilic, acidophilic, desiccation-resistant, autotrophic, and heterotrophic organisms were present, including a number from multicellular eukaryotes.[56]. Or more to the point, in this case, its ability to change its form altogether to mimic other creatures. it wasn't long before Organism 46b. The lake has at least 22 cavities of liquid water, averaging 10 kilometers (6mi) each.[22]. It is the sixteenth one, however, that is the most intriguing, and the grimmest. What makes this lake so special is that . It was referred to and eventually cataloged as "Organism 46B". Their plan was to weaponize the venom and potentially the creature, as well. Measuring 250km (160mi) long by 50km (30mi) wide at its widest point,[1] it covers an area of 12,500km2 (4,830sqmi) making it the 16th largest lake by surface area. Knowing full well that one or two scientists would most likely die before the specimen could be secured. Considering the ancient Elder Things retreated to the oceans, perhaps Organism 46-B is one of their creations. Antarctica is a place of mystery and conspiracy. Underneath Antarctica's miles of ice, you'll find approximately 400 subglacial lakes. Underneath Antarctica's miles of ice, you'll find approximately 400 subglacial lakes. [73], The original drilling technique employed by the Russians involved the use of Freon and kerosene to lubricate the borehole and prevent it from collapsing and freezing over; 60 short tons (54t) of these chemicals have been used thus far on the ice above Lake Vostok. We publish books on both Kindle and paperback. Researchers hypothesize that the anomaly may be caused by a thinning of the Earth's crust in that location. This means that there is no space between the water and ice and thus no ice shelf to set up camp on. 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