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What would happen on the large scheme of things if Columbus, halfway across the Atlantic, rammed a huge Giant Oarfish (lets call it sick since otherwise they probably wouldn't enter those layers in the ocean) ... obvious thing happening would be some kind of mutiny with the sailors since they ran into a sea monster and they can not get back to known waters fast enough ... but otherwise?