Massive Unidentified Sea Monster caught on Oil-Rig Cam

[WillParkinson]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=193_1379475235

I've no idea what it is, or even if it was a real thing, but I admit, I watched the whole video and it was pretty neat.

[frogmarch]

1. Deepstaria reticulum

It's a big jellyfish.

http://deepseanews.com/2012/05/solving-the-mystery-of-the-placental-jellyfish/

[Marrah_G]

3. Jinx!

[Callmecrazy]

6. That video does not exist. nt

[Marrah_G]

2. Deepstaria enigmatica

http://deepseanews.com/2012/05/solving-the-mystery-of-the-placental-jellyfish/

[Callmecrazy]

7. I said...

THAT VIDEO DOES NOT EXIST

[kestrel91316]

9. Your name suits you. It's an excellent and legitimate video.

[Callmecrazy]

10. Sorry friend...

But on the deepseanews.com website it keeps telling me that video does not exist. I did see the one the OP posted and it looks to me like a blob of oil or something. If it's alive, it's pretty cool. Never seen anything like it before.

[kestrel91316]

12. It's not a blob of oil. It's a giant jellyfish, and THIS sort of thing is why I don't like to go in

the ocean.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. The YouTube one that no longer exists was just a copy of the one in the OP

There's a still from it further down - you can see it's the one from the OP ('Dive number 135 04-25-12').

[Arkansas Granny]

4. That beats anything I've ever helt, felt, smelt or stepped in.

Amazing footage. It reminds me of the old movie "The Blob".

[libodem]

5. What. The. Hell?

OMG!

[Callmecrazy]

8. It's a bird...nt

[eShirl]

11. undulating silk sheet monster, with marshmallow chunks

[theHandpuppet]

13. Wow -- that was amazing

Is there any way to estimate the size of that animal?

Hmmm... I wonder what it eats.

[Sunlei]

14. Jellyfish!! that's a cool camera- thanks for post!

wish we had a real science cam to travel around at those depths

[defacto7]

15. It's a whale placenta caught in the current

umbilical chord and all.

[BlueJazz]

17. Looks like "Montrika, Giant Shrimp of the Sea" I saw it once in a very classy Japanese film.