"When a trawl net that emerged from the water, I saw something big in it, very big," said Anthony Martinez, water mammal researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Researchers who are actually researching the type of food it intends to preserve the sperm whale squid which they catch and then send it to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History for further investigation.
Giant squid are rarely found intact. Researchers usually only see the remnants of his body in the belly of the animal predators such as sperm whales. It makes findings of this time is very valuable because researchers can study the animals that are more complete.
Giant squid can reach lengths of 12 meters and is usually found in deep sea, such as in the waters of Spain and New Zealand. Previously recorded just once, namely in 1954, a giant squid was found dead floating in the Mississippi Delta, is still around the Gulf of Mexico.
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