Scientists Encounter ‘Mysterious Creature’ While Exploring Shipwreck And It Kept Them In Shock

without a doubt the depths of the ocean are both mesmerizing and terrifying while the surface sparkles beautifully in the sun we know very little about what lies below just ask these scientists who discovered something incredible and never before seen while exploring a shipwreck needless to say they felt stunned no questions asked shipwrecks are incredible of course as children when most of us thought about shipwrecks we thought of sunken pirate ships filled with forgotten gold while few wrecks of buried treasure they do often contain incredible surprises most recently a team of scientists encountered an enormous mystery creature inside a shipwreck that's right in fact the animal was so strange that the group who discovered it from ocean x's research vessel the ocean explorer studied the footage for a year before releasing it to the public during an expedition in the red sea the team of the ocean explorer they caught the creature multiple times on radar finally after missing a few times they captured the mystery creature on camera while exploring the pelle shipwreck nearly 2800 feet below the surface if you're thinking of a terrifying shark with massive jaws think again as you can see in the hair-raising photo above the discovered looks more like a squid in fact the zoologist and squid expert mike the kiney said that it is indeed a squid just not one he's seen before many online have wondered if it's a giant squid archetooth these ducks however bikini says it's not a giant squid instead it looks more like a purple back flying squid just much larger in fact bikini believes that they may have discovered a new giant form of the purple back flying squid this could mean that there are giant versions of many different squids not just one after studying the video for months ocean x fakini and his partner is studying the squid ocean x science program lee maddie rodriguez have decided to release the video online rodriguez says that the squid is likely much larger than a human hence the mystery creature label she was among the first to see the creature swim past the bow of the pellet in 2020 rodriguez says the encounter changed her life forever i was frozen in absolute shock she said the scientists can take her eyes off the squid later on the crew ended up talking more about the squid than the shipwreck for now ocean x plans to continue to explore the ocean focusing on research outreach discovery and protection in addition to searching the oceans ocean x also published a large variety of videos that help viewers better understand the ocean how do species in the red sea thrive where others would die is one of the company's most popular videos on youtube ocean x hopes that by helping people know and understand the creatures of the deep like this new squid will result in people taking better care of the oceans after all it would be devastating to lose our beautiful diverse underwater world