Mysterious 26-foot worm-like sea creature stuns divers

Fox News ^ | 11/14/2018 | James Rogers

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Two divers in New Zealand found themselves face-to-face with a strange 26-foot worm-like sea creature recently.

Caters reports that the hollow, wind-sock-like creature was found by friends Steve Hathaway and Andrew Buttle, who were diving off the coast of Whakaari, a stratovolcano on New Zealand’s White Island.

In the video, the pulsating and shuddering worm can be seen changing shape as it moves slowly through the water. The strange creature has been identified as a Pyrosome, a bioluminescent mass made up of hundreds of thousands of organisms that feed on plankton.

Pyrosomes are actually colonies made up of individual pyrosome clones that can grow up to 60 feet in length, according to LiveScience.

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Whoever does the video captions at Fox needs to look up ‘orb’ in the dictionary.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Like a giant electric eel?

What was the voltage need to stun?

Can the beast crank it up to kill?

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Pyrosome, a bioluminescent mass made up of hundreds of thousands of organisms that feed on plankton.

Pyrosomes are actually colonies made up of individual pyrosome clones that can grow up to 60 feet in length, according to LiveScience.

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It’s not a sea creature. It’s a lot of sea creatures.

It’s like calling a giant school of fish a “giant fish”.

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My second complaint is the use of “stuns”, which in this context means “surprised”, not incapacitate using an electrical discharge. But they do shit like that on purpose to generate clicks.

[DannyTN]

Were they stunned or stuned?

Don’t stune and dive!

[PGR88]

If it lives in the ocean, it has been on a menu in a South Chinese restaurant.

[Billthedrill]

Good thing it was New Zealand. If it had been Australia it would be chasing down the divers to eat them.

[ryderann]

“Were they stunned or stuned?”

How about stoned?

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[lepton]

It’s a lot of sea-creatures stuck to each other in a way that makes it look like one organism.

[dfwgator]

Hopefully it isn't an Alaskan Bull Worm....

[llevrok]

If it lives in the ocean, it has been on a menu in a South Chinese restaurant.

Or is thought to have aphrodisiac properties by them

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Two divers discovered a 26-foot-long ‘worm’ off the coast of New Zealand. The massive structure is actually hundreds of thousands of organisms
connected together to form a Pyrosome.

[PIF]

meet them half way “stewned”

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[PLMerite]

Looks like a giant used condom.

Was I wrong to say that?

[LYDIAONTARIO]

Looks more like a giant tapeworm

[MomwithHope]

If they hadn’t found the missing colon model I would think that was it.

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Looks like a giant used condom.