Everybody knows that the whale is the largest animal on the Earth. But just imagine that 20 million years ago there was a fish swimming in the ocean that fed on whales! The largest fish in history of our planet was called Megalodon. It was 18 meters long and weighed about 40 tons. And one of its teeth could grow up to 19 cm!
However, if this giant survived to the present day, it would definitely have been stored in the village of Novy Port on the Gulf of Ob. A unique natural fish storage facility was built here in the middle of the 20th century - a freezer built in permafrost. It consists of ice corridors and cavities with the length of more than 1300 meters, the temperature here is constant and stays at 12C degrees below zero at any time of the year. The 'merzlotnik' (natural freezer) of Novy Port is the largest in the world and is designed to store 1700 tons of fish. And this is not the only sightseeing of the Gulf of Ob.
29 сен 2024
