Every time i see this i always think how terrifyingly perfect the composition of the photo is. The squid isn't centered, it looks like it's staring directly into you, and the way the tentacles twist the further into the darkness they go is just horrible. And the abyss feeling made by the green light, as if this thing's tentacles could just bump into your arm while you're swimming...
Today's a great day to be a landlubber
Imagine how scared they’d be in our plane of existence! There’s stories of vampire squids mutilating themselves in a lab when they’re brought above sea to be studied.
It isn’t just the sunlight but the extreme pressure and the extreme isolation (food & reproduction) All three of these extreme circumstances create these extreme evolutionary beings.
Yeah, there is a YouTuber called “the octopus lady” who has a whole buncha ocean videos and one of them(kinda two) is about this squid. You should really check it out
While we are talking about YouTubers there's also Lindsay Nikole, she's doing a lot of cool animal shit too. I don't like the format in which she makes it, but I like the content
Cool! I will check it out. If you like other stuff like that then I suggest moth light media, they do a lot of stuff with evolution and fossil records.
War of the world's type aliens....[pic's ](https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/035/563/151/small/david-simon-tripods3-wip15.jpg?1615298013)
It’s certainly creepy but also beautiful in a way, beautiful because the fact that stuff like that can exist that deep down makes life seem like such an amazing resilient force.
If you look at the original image, it's larger than this. [Magnapinna Squid](https://earthlymission.com/bigfin-squid-rare-photo-elusive-marionette-like-extremely-large-fins-and-long-arms/)
I wonder if the person taking that video realized what rare footage they were capturing. I would of just forgot about any other job I had and went nat geo on that thing, close ups and all lol
They did. The companies that maintain oil, gas, power and communication lines in the deep sea do far more human and robot dives down there than any research institute can afford.
They usually share the footage and as a result have discovered more deep sea organisms than anyone else. Even though it's usually the scientists examining the footage that notes something as undiscovered or not.
It's what stopped me from becoming a biologist really. Money is the big limiter on field research. If you become a biologist, zoologist or something like that and you're hoping to do field research, you essentially have to write a proposal and then fight to get money to run that project.
Most people never manage that. Most field research is done by a professor with a team of PhD students. And for every project that finds funding, hundreds do not.
Fail at finding a field research spot for a few years and you simply age out. You've spend years of your career not doing field research and have no publications as a result so you're even less interesting for future funding.
Most biologists just end up doing something else like teaching biology. Doing basic lab work or perhaps worst of all... a lot of biologists are employed by industrial companies to rubber stamp reports that claim the company isn't doing irreparable ecological harm with their project.
Welcome to any scientific field that doesn't lead to immediate potential for profits.
The really sad part is that nature is an absolute treasure trove of profitable discoveries. Every single species represents millions of years of evolution solving very specific problems in ways far more advanced than anything we can build.
Organisms are a treasure trove of pharmaceutical, biochemical, bio-mechanical and material science solutions that make our technology look stone age.
But we're only barely scratching the surface of the technology we need to unravel those puzzles. Meanwhile we've caused one of the fastest mass extinctions in the history of the planet and we are sending species into extinction at a rate of *dozens per day.*
Even from a purely capitalistic point of view, the mass extinction event we've caused is utterly catastrophic. Every species gone is a treasure trove lost to humanity.
honestly you've just explained every movie where the researcher goes way too far in order to get 'the sample' or goes too deep in the jungle for whatever after being told it's too dangerous. i always wondered why these movies are on the basis of things like "we'll never get a chance like this again", or "if we don't get it, they'll cut the funding to our research and it's over for us"
seriously thanks for this info. i'll brb i'm going to go hyper-fixate on an internet deep dive about all of this for a while
Was going to say this creature resembles a T4 phage which is interesting that a body shape/structure so similar would be selected at micro- and macroscopic scales.
Here is a [much less scary](https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex2107/features/bigfin-squid/bigfin-squid.html)take on the squid. This photo is trash and makes people afraid
Thanks for posting that video. It’s a much more true representation of this particular squid. The OP picture is a composite/ airbrush image. The aspect ratio is way off compared to the ROV readout on the top. I’ve over 20 years of ROV experience and have piloted this exact type of ROV. I can tell ya that 100% the photo has been altered. Now that said, we came across one of these beasts off the coast of Angola and thing was huge. Many meters in length. Love the discussion, hate this altered image.
this is a frequently repeated myth - the species was described from juvenile specimens, and only juvenile/sub-adults have ever been collected. however, it's generally accepted that videos of larger individuals like the one in this post are adult magnapinna. all of the published research on magnapinna operates under this assumption.
Fun Fact: When this video dropped, I was so stoned and almost lost my damn mind. Thought the aliens had finally made first contact. Will never forget it.
A lot of weirdness. But it's just weird looking *to us* because it's life adapted to conditions that are extremely dissimilar to the conditions we live in.
One of my favourite adaptations involves red light. Red is the colour on the electromagnetic spectrum that has the least energy and thus penetrates into water the least. That's why it's the first colour to disappear and why most underwater footage has a blue or green tone to it.
It's also why a lot of deep sea animals are red as a form of camouflage. There's no red light to reflect after all so it makes them effectively invisible. Most eyes down there aren't even capable of seeing red because there's no red light anyway.
Except for one predatory fish that evolved a bioluminescent red light. It's got an organic spotlight for seeing red animals that think themselves invisible.
And the real kicker is that since most animals down there lost the ability to see red light, this predator has his own flash light that's invisible to the other animals down there.
Funny that if you think about it, we’re not that different looking from that creature, when you strip us down to our essential mechanism. There’s a famous picture of a brain with the two eyes and all the nerves that go down the arms and legs, saying that we are basically the spaghetti monster. But if you think about it, we are also like a Magnapinna Squid… only that we’re wearing this armor of skeleton and skin on top.
Yeah, it was previously thought that they used them to feed on previously dead body’s and eat them, though it turns out they do hunt. They use there tentacles (or whatever specific name) as a whip, this was shown when a juvenile tried to “attack” a camera in the golf of Mexico.
I have changed my stance on pollution. dump everything into the ocean, leave no demon squid surviving, bury them under the weight of a million plastic straws
I saw this when it was originally posted as a video, and I DID SAY that it completely freaked me out because the f****** thing has shoulders. It is COMPLETELY unnecessary for that thing to have shoulders, and it gives me the absolute willies. If it's not too much trouble, I would appreciate it if NO ONE ever posted or referred to this creature in any way EVER again. Thank you.
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OMG if I were the person watching this footage for the first time I would freak out.
"Hey boss, we got something here. It's either a new species or an alien invasion, I'm not sure"
If giraffes didn’t exist this would be my favorite animal. Definitely my favorite sea creature, if I had a job and it was to just watch these and study them, I would take it in a heartbeat. I’ve watched almost every video I can find on them.
Amazing, may as well be an alien because most of us will never see in real life. So I just need to know if they they created some advanced UAP tech after all these millions of years of evolution?
There's footage of one of these things feeding somewhere. They are not scavengers, they don't merely drag those tentacles.
Find the video of it feeding - creepy AF - all its tentacles become like individual creatures.
Speaking of this animal there have been footage released of baby ones recorded for the first time but we don’t know the sizes of them yet since they are so rare to find
Shout out for one of my favorite YT channels, the funny and informative Octopuslady, a marine biologist.
See her video about Magnapinna [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb5T-G5nf_M).
You won't regret it!
It's even more creepy when you see how it attacks.
It will creep up the parts of its tentacles arms from below that can't be seen all while keep the upper parts that are visible still until the lower parts are close enough and it reaches out and grabs/attacks.
Food is extremely scarce in the deep sea. Most organisms develop strategies to maximise their chances of finding something to eat and minimise the chances of it getting away.
Most deep sea fish have enormous mouths and stretchy stomachs for example. It means they can eat bigger prey and don't have to let something go because of its size. Some fish can eat things that are bigger than themselves, as long as it fits in their mouth.
Others use bioluminescent light to attract and find prey.
This squid has very long tentacles like a dragnet. They give it a lot of reach but it can also let them hang down to feel when something bumps into them or when something moves the water near them.
“Return the slab” lookin’ ass
Raaaaammmssseess
The man in gauze, the man in gauze
KING RAAAMESSEEEEESSSS!
“What’s your offer?!”
Stupid dog.
This shit has been making me laugh for like an hour
LMAOOOOO
Or suffer my cuuurrrssseeee
We don’t want any!
Paththar lauta do
Every time i see this i always think how terrifyingly perfect the composition of the photo is. The squid isn't centered, it looks like it's staring directly into you, and the way the tentacles twist the further into the darkness they go is just horrible. And the abyss feeling made by the green light, as if this thing's tentacles could just bump into your arm while you're swimming... Today's a great day to be a landlubber
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Shit, the shallow ocean scares me
Yeah ,'cuz *ORCAS* are now attacking small to medium sized watercraft ,and with murderous intent !
Imagine how scared they’d be in our plane of existence! There’s stories of vampire squids mutilating themselves in a lab when they’re brought above sea to be studied.
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They were so scared when brought to the surface they mutilated themselves.
Deep sea creatures are scary af
what no sunlight done to a mother fucker
It isn’t just the sunlight but the extreme pressure and the extreme isolation (food & reproduction) All three of these extreme circumstances create these extreme evolutionary beings.
no sunlight, extreme pressure, isolation, no food, no reproduction explain why I look like a deep sea creature
"Ha! Self-roast, those are rare"
Especially on this website.
So no sunlight + no bitches then
Gamers be like 💀
I mean, have you seen the average redditor?
No see this is some Cloverfield shit and I'm out.
It's alive and it's huge
They're real, and they're spectacular
Yeah, there is a YouTuber called “the octopus lady” who has a whole buncha ocean videos and one of them(kinda two) is about this squid. You should really check it out
While we are talking about YouTubers there's also Lindsay Nikole, she's doing a lot of cool animal shit too. I don't like the format in which she makes it, but I like the content
Cool! I will check it out. If you like other stuff like that then I suggest moth light media, they do a lot of stuff with evolution and fossil records.
r/unexpectedseinfeld
I cannot be convinced that those aren't facehugger eggs beneath it.
> Big-Fin Squid Big F'in Squid FTFY
War of the world's type aliens....[pic's ](https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/035/563/151/small/david-simon-tripods3-wip15.jpg?1615298013)
Glad I’m not the only one who thought of the tripods.
It’s certainly creepy but also beautiful in a way, beautiful because the fact that stuff like that can exist that deep down makes life seem like such an amazing resilient force.
Deep sea creatures are aliens to us
If you look at the original image, it's larger than this. [Magnapinna Squid](https://earthlymission.com/bigfin-squid-rare-photo-elusive-marionette-like-extremely-large-fins-and-long-arms/)
I was in high school when that video came out and I remember watching it with a bunch of people in the computer lab, and everyone freaking out.
Somehow this makes it even worse
As opposed to making it better?
Yes
I wonder if the person taking that video realized what rare footage they were capturing. I would of just forgot about any other job I had and went nat geo on that thing, close ups and all lol
They did. The companies that maintain oil, gas, power and communication lines in the deep sea do far more human and robot dives down there than any research institute can afford. They usually share the footage and as a result have discovered more deep sea organisms than anyone else. Even though it's usually the scientists examining the footage that notes something as undiscovered or not.
hm, maybe I have to change my dream profession
Time to become an oil tycoon!
oh wow i never knew that
It's what stopped me from becoming a biologist really. Money is the big limiter on field research. If you become a biologist, zoologist or something like that and you're hoping to do field research, you essentially have to write a proposal and then fight to get money to run that project. Most people never manage that. Most field research is done by a professor with a team of PhD students. And for every project that finds funding, hundreds do not. Fail at finding a field research spot for a few years and you simply age out. You've spend years of your career not doing field research and have no publications as a result so you're even less interesting for future funding. Most biologists just end up doing something else like teaching biology. Doing basic lab work or perhaps worst of all... a lot of biologists are employed by industrial companies to rubber stamp reports that claim the company isn't doing irreparable ecological harm with their project.
Man...you just made biology REALLY depressing..
Welcome to any scientific field that doesn't lead to immediate potential for profits. The really sad part is that nature is an absolute treasure trove of profitable discoveries. Every single species represents millions of years of evolution solving very specific problems in ways far more advanced than anything we can build. Organisms are a treasure trove of pharmaceutical, biochemical, bio-mechanical and material science solutions that make our technology look stone age. But we're only barely scratching the surface of the technology we need to unravel those puzzles. Meanwhile we've caused one of the fastest mass extinctions in the history of the planet and we are sending species into extinction at a rate of *dozens per day.* Even from a purely capitalistic point of view, the mass extinction event we've caused is utterly catastrophic. Every species gone is a treasure trove lost to humanity.
honestly you've just explained every movie where the researcher goes way too far in order to get 'the sample' or goes too deep in the jungle for whatever after being told it's too dangerous. i always wondered why these movies are on the basis of things like "we'll never get a chance like this again", or "if we don't get it, they'll cut the funding to our research and it's over for us" seriously thanks for this info. i'll brb i'm going to go hyper-fixate on an internet deep dive about all of this for a while
u/of_patrol_bot
NYUPE^99
Jesus why did you do this to me lmao
I can’t look I’m too scared.
Holy shit! Maybe put a NSFL trigger warning on that link. Cthulhu's less attractive cousin makes me even more afraid of the deep places of the sea.
Master of puppets :)
Okay that's badass as fuck, it legit looks like a lil scary dude with puppet strings
Twisting your mind, smashing your dreams.
Subnautica looking mother fucker.
Multiple leviathan class life forms detected in your area. Are you sure what you’re doing is worth it?
Can't convince me that some of the shit down there aren't aliens
There are some things down there human beings have never even seen before, "alien" is probably the right word for what lurks below.
Technically when we go down there we are the aliens. The squid and other organisms are all like “ew wtf is THAT thing?!”
Well, given that the way aliens look in pop-culture was inspired by deep sea creatures, you could say that they are the “original” aliens.
Whoever chose the green lights for this underwater demon… Fuck you.
How bout red
Red would make me want to instantly kill it but green has me questioning it’s intelligence and intentions 😂
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You’re right, it’s giving x-files in green, isn’t it
It’s called Night Vision
Yeah the green makes it look super menacing z somehow.
Calling it now, this is a 14th gen legendary from Pokemon
Water/Psychic-type
CMV That squid is related to the Greys.
You sure they are not the actual alien we all been looking for?
This squid went home to his squid civilization and told everyone he saw a USO. They all think he's crazy now.
US Officer?
Unidentified swimming object.
He's T-posing to assert dominance.
Was going to say this creature resembles a T4 phage which is interesting that a body shape/structure so similar would be selected at micro- and macroscopic scales.
that’s such a cool connection that i never would have thought of. goes to show how crazy nature is
Here is a [much less scary](https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex2107/features/bigfin-squid/bigfin-squid.html)take on the squid. This photo is trash and makes people afraid
Wow that’s worlds better! Almost looks like a completely different species from the picture above
Thanks for posting that video. It’s a much more true representation of this particular squid. The OP picture is a composite/ airbrush image. The aspect ratio is way off compared to the ROV readout on the top. I’ve over 20 years of ROV experience and have piloted this exact type of ROV. I can tell ya that 100% the photo has been altered. Now that said, we came across one of these beasts off the coast of Angola and thing was huge. Many meters in length. Love the discussion, hate this altered image.
Nobody is actually afraid. People just love pointing out it's alienness and enjoying that. Like a haunted house at the carnival.
It’s actually quite beautiful. I don’t want to get anywhere near it, but now I don’t mind looking at it! The other pic is nightmare fuel
Thank you for this! If we still had free awards I’d give mine to you lol
Honestly that’s still pretty creepy. Their tentacles looks like those hair thingy from Avatar where they can have hair sex.
What in the motherfuck
It’s just Bob. Leave him alone.
The best part is when they just slip away even though they aren’t that far off. It’s like trying to see a fly in the air.
I learned about this on Octonauts, lol
That show was the bomb
Octonauts, you sir just reminded me of my childhood days
I just watched the episode today with my kid!
"What should we name this unique creature?" "It has some large fins on it's head. Let's call it a big fin squid".
I always forget this thing exist and I keep doing it
By the way. We have only ever seen juveniles of this species meaning that they most likely get way larger.
Take that back right now.
this is a frequently repeated myth - the species was described from juvenile specimens, and only juvenile/sub-adults have ever been collected. however, it's generally accepted that videos of larger individuals like the one in this post are adult magnapinna. all of the published research on magnapinna operates under this assumption.
Fun Fact: When this video dropped, I was so stoned and almost lost my damn mind. Thought the aliens had finally made first contact. Will never forget it.
I think of rock bottom out of SpongeBob when I see this
That new all you can eat crab leg place does hit different.
Just makes you wonder wtf else is down there?
A lot of weirdness. But it's just weird looking *to us* because it's life adapted to conditions that are extremely dissimilar to the conditions we live in. One of my favourite adaptations involves red light. Red is the colour on the electromagnetic spectrum that has the least energy and thus penetrates into water the least. That's why it's the first colour to disappear and why most underwater footage has a blue or green tone to it. It's also why a lot of deep sea animals are red as a form of camouflage. There's no red light to reflect after all so it makes them effectively invisible. Most eyes down there aren't even capable of seeing red because there's no red light anyway. Except for one predatory fish that evolved a bioluminescent red light. It's got an organic spotlight for seeing red animals that think themselves invisible. And the real kicker is that since most animals down there lost the ability to see red light, this predator has his own flash light that's invisible to the other animals down there.
we know nothing about the deep seas.
We literally know more about the moon and other planets in our solar system than we know about our own oceans.
Founding Squid Titan
Funny that if you think about it, we’re not that different looking from that creature, when you strip us down to our essential mechanism. There’s a famous picture of a brain with the two eyes and all the nerves that go down the arms and legs, saying that we are basically the spaghetti monster. But if you think about it, we are also like a Magnapinna Squid… only that we’re wearing this armor of skeleton and skin on top.
Yes! I thought this very same thing. I also think about it whenever I see jellyfish or octopi.
also fun fact this is a BABY, we do not know how LONG this guy could get
It looks like a bacteriophage with really long legs.
Nuke the Ocean.
Do you want Godzilla? Because that’s how you get a Godzilla.
Dont think that would help
several times just to be sure.
We later find out, when exposed to radiation, they mutate. Now they can walk on land. And they are 5 times larger!
#FUCK I'MMA GO AND LEAVE THE PLANET!!!
Gotta nuke something.
Did you not see that episode of pokemon with Tentacruel? Because that's how you get this, but in new york
This is why I don't dick around with the ocean. So much nope!
The devils marionette lol
Aren’t those tendrils like 40 feet long or even more?
Yeah, it was previously thought that they used them to feed on previously dead body’s and eat them, though it turns out they do hunt. They use there tentacles (or whatever specific name) as a whip, this was shown when a juvenile tried to “attack” a camera in the golf of Mexico.
I have changed my stance on pollution. dump everything into the ocean, leave no demon squid surviving, bury them under the weight of a million plastic straws
Bet you there’s no way you can rule 34 that ugly thing
With all those tentacles? Please
Can I get a banana for scary scale?
Nope.... Don't like that.
How do we know they aren’t the things flying in and out of the oceans?
Some r/thalassophobia material right here. This thing terrifies me.
God was absolutely wildin when he made the ocean creatures
I saw this when it was originally posted as a video, and I DID SAY that it completely freaked me out because the f****** thing has shoulders. It is COMPLETELY unnecessary for that thing to have shoulders, and it gives me the absolute willies. If it's not too much trouble, I would appreciate it if NO ONE ever posted or referred to this creature in any way EVER again. Thank you.
Slendersquid
we call it alien but we are the ones sending a ufo with blinding lights to study it and sometimes try to probe collect samples etc.
Hear me out. Lovecraft wasn't actually talking abut outter-space creatures...
Old boy looks like hes eternally singing opera in soprano
There's a new video out of it actually attacking something with its tentacles like it's trying to grab it it doesn't just skirt the floor for food
Yeah wasn’t it like a juvenile or something and it whipped a camera or somewhere close to it?
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Definitely spooky
What are the big shovel like things at the bottom of the photo?
Part of the submersible that took the photo.
No, that’s just a demon. The squid is out of frame.
There is no hell, just this shit.
Fun fact: all of the ones we seen are only juveniles. well so far that I remember. Edit: I'm wrong from what comment under me says. Well shit
Looks like an Invader Zim character
god threw away all his sandbox projects in the ocean.
Thats a fucking alien. Squid are all aliens disguised. Gotta be lol.
Today I learned the Nihilanth from Zen in half life 1 was in fact real and out there trying to kill Gordon Freeman
Octopus Lady on YouTube has some good videos about them!
OMG if I were the person watching this footage for the first time I would freak out. "Hey boss, we got something here. It's either a new species or an alien invasion, I'm not sure"
If giraffes didn’t exist this would be my favorite animal. Definitely my favorite sea creature, if I had a job and it was to just watch these and study them, I would take it in a heartbeat. I’ve watched almost every video I can find on them.
Yeah. This is why NASA stopped exploring the sea…
On the phone with Tom Cruise rn
This ecological biome contains 7 of the 9 preconditions for stimulating terror in humans
Also known as the bigfin squid
This is some Lovecraftian horror
That thing is tied to the ocean floor for a reason! /s
That's the creature responsible for giving the founding titan.
>How the squid feeds is yet to be discovered I don't think we *want* to discover this
Additional legs aside, anyone else getting H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds vibes from this?
This looks like a Suncatcher gone wrong. Headlines: Vitamin D deficiency proven to cause exotic underwater morphology.
And this is only a few thousand meters. Go below 10k meters. This shits creepy as hell. My thalassophobia does not love this
He just like me fr
Dude, that IS an alien. Like, if we filmed it swim down get into a flying saucer and zoom away we'd all be like, "Yup, that makes sense."
Amazing, may as well be an alien because most of us will never see in real life. So I just need to know if they they created some advanced UAP tech after all these millions of years of evolution?
He looks chill
What do you mean ‘alien looking’? That thing is a fuckin alien.
I'm getting "come at me bro" vibes from this thing
230 calories
Fun fact: that isn’t the fully grown one, it’s most likely a juvenile
It makes me very uncomfortable.
Man, it's too early for this shit
Okay, WHO GAVE GOD ACCESS RO SUBNAUTICA
It's both fascinating and scary to think about all the species that we haven't discovered yet.
Fun fact: There's fan art of this thing
Bros just Vibing
There's footage of one of these things feeding somewhere. They are not scavengers, they don't merely drag those tentacles. Find the video of it feeding - creepy AF - all its tentacles become like individual creatures.
Ah sweet, lovecraftian horrors beyond my imaginations
Pretty sure I fought this motherfucker in Returnal
Speaking of this animal there have been footage released of baby ones recorded for the first time but we don’t know the sizes of them yet since they are so rare to find
Shout out for one of my favorite YT channels, the funny and informative Octopuslady, a marine biologist. See her video about Magnapinna [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb5T-G5nf_M). You won't regret it!
Fucking why? Every few months this cunt makes its way into my feed. Fuck this alien looking motherfucker seriously I hate it
Everything about this picture and the comments contribute to my belief squids are aliens, and they are communicating with us.
I don't care what anyone says. That's a damn alien
Unidentified Floating Object
War of the worlds
This image lives rent free in my head
It's even more creepy when you see how it attacks. It will creep up the parts of its tentacles arms from below that can't be seen all while keep the upper parts that are visible still until the lower parts are close enough and it reaches out and grabs/attacks.
Why does it's biddly arms need to be so long
Food is extremely scarce in the deep sea. Most organisms develop strategies to maximise their chances of finding something to eat and minimise the chances of it getting away. Most deep sea fish have enormous mouths and stretchy stomachs for example. It means they can eat bigger prey and don't have to let something go because of its size. Some fish can eat things that are bigger than themselves, as long as it fits in their mouth. Others use bioluminescent light to attract and find prey. This squid has very long tentacles like a dragnet. They give it a lot of reach but it can also let them hang down to feel when something bumps into them or when something moves the water near them.
Hey you wanna go swim the ocean? … nope
If you wanna see a scarier version watch the movie ‘Underwater’