A daredevil surfer is pictured tackling a giant 41 foot wave in a bid to win himself a prestigious award.

Kerby Brown took on the monster during a session at a top secret reef, and nearly didn’t live to tell the tale.

Moments after these pictures were taken, he suffered a devastating wipeout which nearly killed him.

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Thai fishermen netted a 646-pound catfish believed to have been the world’s largest freshwater fish ever caught in Thailand.

The nearly 9-foot-long Mekong giant catfish was landed May 1 by villagers in Chiang Khong, a remote district in northern Thailand, and weighed by Thai fisheries department officials, said Zeb Hogan, who leads an international project to locate and study the world’s largest freshwater fish species.

He confirmed it was the heaviest fish on record since Thailand started keeping such statistics in 1981.

The fishermen had hoped to sell the fish to environmental groups, which planned to release it to spawn upriver, but it died before it could be handed over and then was chopped up and sold in pieces to villagers as food.

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At who-sucks, there is an amazing collection of 24 bizarre real life sea monsters. The collection includes real photos of the creatures, taken by fishermen of science labs and comments for each one. Some creatures seem more alien than anything you can imagine.

Here is a selected sample of the collection.

Chimaeras are cartilaginous fish related to the sharks and rays, and are sometimes called ghost sharks or rabbitfishes. For defense, most chimaeras have a venomous spine located in front of the dorsal fin.

The Colossal Squid, sometimes called the Antarctic or Giant Cranch Squid, is believed to be the largest squid species.

Typified by large heads with large mouths and eyes, grenadiers (rattails) have slender bodies that taper greatly to a very thin caudal peduncle or tail.

Oarfish are large, greatly elongated, pelagic Lampriform fish.

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“Stolt Surf” was a chemical tanker, and on October 4th. 1977, she left Singapore on a routine voyage across the Pacific ocean to Portland, USA. Already in those days it was normal to obtain advice from a weather routing agency before such a voyage was commenced, and in this case the advice was to keep far to the north, in order to avoid the possibility of hitting a developing storm further south.

“Around October 20th. we ended up right in the middle of the strongest storm I have ever experienced in my almost 40 years at sea! Also Captain Oddenes had never seen anything like it!”

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