Giant 18-foot oarfish found off the Catalina Island coast http://t.co/V3lJ6FnYno pic.twitter.com/XfVbVwdVpP
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) October 15, 2013
A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel: the silvery carcass of an 18-foot-long, serpent-like oarfish.
Jasmine Santana of the Catalina Island Marine Institute needed more than 15 helpers to drag the giant sea creature with eyes the size of half dollars to shore on Sunday.
Staffers at the institute are calling it the discovery of a lifetime.
“We’ve never seen a fish this big,” said Mark Waddington, senior captain of the Tole Mour, CIMI’s sail training ship. “The last oarfish we saw was three feet long.”
Source: Fox News
