Deep Water, Gulf of Mexico — There is something lurking in the water!
Scientist working on the Journey into Midnight mission funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorded a giant squid about 100 miles off the coast of New Orleans.
A robotic camera located the 10-12 foot long creature at a depth of 759 meters (2,490 feet.)
At one point one of its tentacles reaches out and hugs the camera, Yikes!
This is the only the second time a giant squid has been seen and the first time in U.S. waters.
The first giant squid was recorded off the coast of Japan in 2012.
Scientist Nathan Robinson said seeing something like this makes “You feel very alive!”
“It’s not some exotic creature found thousands of miles away in some unknown deep. It’s our animal,” another expedition scientist,
Sonke Johnsen said, “And I think that’s what we as explorers do — we point a finger down into the deep and say this is here, this is amazing and it’s beautiful and it’s something we should care about.”
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