23-Foot Squid Found Off Florida Coast
Posted by Ryan on June 28th, 2011Fisherman found a 23-foot long, dead squid floating about 12 miles off the Florida coast near Port Salerno. The fisherman hauled it ashore and donated the body to the Florida Museum of Natural History.
“We pulled up… thought it was something to fish on, a pallet or something like that. We looked at it, all three of us were like ‘holy mackerel,’ ” recalled Benz.
It turned out to be a 23-foot long giant squid. It’s a rare find in our waters. The main part of the body was about 11-feet long, but with its two long tentacles, it barely fit in the 23-foot boat Benz was riding in. But he knew they had to bring it ashore.
“Nobody believes a fisherman,” said Benz. “It didn’t seem it had been dead long, the tentacles were still moving and it was sticking to you when we got it in.
[WPTV]
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June 29th, 2011 at 1:56 am
Uh oh, Andrew Mayne is in California… has anybody told him that his squid escaped yet?