Deep-Sea Creature Photobombs Us While Investigating Seafloor Anomaly

2023 Webby Nominee - Social Video: Education & Discovery
On an overnight shift doing ecological surveys in the Red Sea, an #OceanX technician discovers an anomaly on the seafloor. Thinking that could either be "a rock or a wreck," the team of the ship deploys the #deepsea instruments to check it out, only to make an even more intriguing #ocean discovery than they expected: a "giant" squid of between 3-5 meters (10-16 feet).
Producer: Erika Jarvis
Editors: Nick Capezzera, Carly Tarricone
Photography: Adam Wolffbrandt, Janssen Powers, Taj Howe
Post Production Supervisor: Gabe Tanenhaus
Digital Producers: Mika Chance, Jessica Wright
Color: Running Man Post
Sound: Max Sound Recording
Music: MusicBed. Sync ID MB016UTXRYOOKBS
With thanks to Dr. Michael Vecchione of the NMFS National Systematics Laboratory and National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian.