Watch Japanese Divers Swim with Giant Squid in A First of Its Kind Footage

Rare footage shows a giant squid coming face to face with Japanese divers. These divers were able to get very close to a rare giant squid just off the coast of Japan. The divers were Yosuke Tanaka and his wife, Miki. The couple was out swimming when they encountered the rarely-seen abysmal giant.

10 Two Japanese scuba divers came face to face with a very rare giant squid and got some amazing footage of the creature

After only 30 minutes of swimming, Yosuke Tanaka, a scuba diving instructor, and his wife Miki was scuba diving in Japan when they came face to face with a huge sea creature: an 8-foot giant squid. Divers are usually scared when they see a rare giant squid, but they get a great video of it. “We swam together and took pictures. I was so happy that the squid was within my reach, but... It was so big that I started to feel scared,” Miki said.

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9 Yosuke Tanaka and his wife Miki were scuba diving in a bay on Japan’s west coast when they came face to face with a giant squid that was 8-foot-long

The beautiful sea creature was seen on the surface of the water near the Nekozaki Peninsula in the city of Toyooka in the Hyogo Prefecture of western Japan. The squid, which can grow up to 13 meters long, was floating in the water off Toyooka City’s coast, according to Yosuke’s underwater camera footage.

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8 Yosuke shared this encounter on his blog- Takeno Diving

Yosuke wrote about the encounter on his blog, Takeno Diving. He said that a ferryman friend of his had first told him about the creature. The ferryman called him and told him that there was a strange big squid and asked if he would like to go see it. The animal was swimming near the water’s surface in an area where there was a lot of seaweed. Tanaka stated that “It’s very rare to see them alive.”

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7 Yosuke was really excited and terrified at the same time

Yosuke took a video of the giant squid swimming just below the surface of the water with its long tentacles stretched out behind it. Yosuke said, “I was so excited, and I felt terrified because it had very thick arms—if I was caught, I would not be able to escape.”

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