

I thought it would be dangerous to be grabbed hard by them and taken off somewhere.” Yosuke Tanaka told the Japan Times that he was amazed by the size of the creature. Upon reaching the squid, which is a member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda, the divers found it floating near a rocky shoreline. The couple was tipped off about the squid by a fishing equipment vendor who saw it in a bay, and they decided to investigate.

Yosuke Tanaka and his wife Miki, who operate a diving business in Toyooka city in the Hyogo region of Japan, found an eight-foot-long squid while diving off the western coast of the country. Footage from January 2023 shows two scuba divers coming face-to-face with a rare giant squid on the coast of Japan.
