Diver finds creature from the deep
A marine science instructor snorkelling off the Southern California coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel: the silvery carcass of a five-metre-long serpent-like oarfish.
Jasmine Santana of the Catalina Island Marine Institute needed more than 15 helpers to drag the giant sea creature to shore on Sunday.
Staffers at the institute are calling it the discovery of a lifetime.
Because oarfish dive more than 900m deep, sightings of the creatures are rare and they are largely unstudied, according to CIMI.
The obscure fish apparently died of natural causes.
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