The apparently weakened animal allowed itself to be approached by a couple of divers who managed to immortalize their experience.
It’s in the box! Two Japanese divers managed to capture rare images of a 2.5-metre-long giant squid swimming off the west coast of the Japanese archipelago. An exciting experience. Yosuke Tanaka and his wife Miki, diving instructors in Toyooka, western Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture, were tipped off by a fishing tackle salesman who spotted the giant squid near the surface in a bay. They quickly set out in a boat to meet him near a rocky shore. “He was there, a giant squid,” Yosuke Tanaka told AFP. “It didn’t have the nimble movements of many fish and sea creatures,” he noted. And with good reason: “Its tentacles and fins moved very slowly”. The squid looked weak and scraps of skin appeared to be peeling off its body, the diver observed.
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A rare experience
The size of the animal and its huge eyes were striking. So much so that the fisherman says he imagined seeing him how strong a squid must have been to attack a whale. “I could see its tentacles moving. I thought it would be dangerous to get caught and carried away by this creature,” he added.
Giant squid are known to roam the waters near Japan and sometimes wash up on its shores, but it’s very rare to see them swimming in the ocean.” “It was exciting. I think there are few things that are rarer,” assured the diver. And to add: “I heard that we don’t know much about this creature. I would be happy if it helps us learn more.”