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Terrifying moment diver comes face to face with mysterious 30 foot 'sea serpent'
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CAPE BRETT, NORTHLAND, NEW ZEALAND This is the shocking moment a diver comes face to face with a mysterious 30-foot sea serpent that’s been compared to a giant condom. Photo shows the pyrosome (Credit: Pen News/Ben Laurie)


This is the terrifying moment a diver came face-to-face with a mysterious 30-foot "sea serpent" that resembled a giant condom.

Ben Laurie, 21, encountered the bizarre creature while diving near Cape Brett on New Zealand's North Island.

Ben, from Kerikeri, New Zealand, said: "We were diving there for kingfish and we had plugged a couple, and then we were coming up from one of the dives when my friend saw this thing.

"It did look almost like a big condom. It was 10 meters long and almost half a meter wide, and it was just flowing with the tide.”

Ben, who has years of experience in the water and is an ambassador for the WildBlue dive shop, said he had seen nothing like it.

He added: "I didn't know what it was at the time, so it was quite a confusing thing.

"We get these little like plankton build-ups - they're like small stringy things but they're only like 20cm long - so I thought it was just a large one of them.

"But one of the guys touched it and said it wasn't soft at all, it was more like a cardboard sort of texture."

In fact, the creature is believed to be a pyrosome - a floating colony comprising billions of sea squirts.

It feeds by filtering microscopic plant cells out of the sea, with each squirt drawing in water from outside the pyrosome and then releasing the filtered water inside the colony.

He said: "Apparently they only come from depths of 2,000 meters, so it's quite rare for them to be up in the shallows like that.

"It must have been sick or something.

"Once it gets a bit too high, because it's got more of a softer texture, the fish seem to eat it, so that's why it stays deep."

In any case, Ben knows he was lucky to make such a unique sighting.

Ben said that a scientist told him it was “a once-in-a-lifetime rare thing to see.”
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