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Diver encounters ghostly transparent sea creature [Video]
Unbelievable footage exhibits the second a diver encounters a ghostly eel-like creature that’s nearly completely clear.
Consultants are divided over the weird seabeast noticed by Amy Wainman, 36, off Simon’s City close to Cape City in South Africa.
In Amy’s footage, the creature is seen undulating via the water, its clear physique seemingly devoid of any organs.
The diver mentioned the ‘superb, magical’ creature was not like something she’d ever seen.
Unbelievable footage exhibits the second Amy Wainman, 36, encounters a ghostly eel-like creature with an nearly fully clear physique off the coast of Cape City in South Africa’s Western Cape
‘After I first noticed it, it nearly appeared like some floating plastic,’ she mentioned. ‘However then it began swimming. It was like a dancing, clear ribbon.
‘I had no thought what it was, I had by no means even seen an image of 1 earlier than.’
Some specialists have recommended that the footage exhibits an eel larva.
Bradley Stevens, a retired marine science professor, previously of the College of Maryland Japanese Shore, mentioned it appeared to be on the finish of its larval stage.
He mentioned: ‘Its measurement and placement counsel that it’s nearing the tip of its migration from the mid-oceanic spawning grounds, and can quickly turn out to be a normal-shaped juvenile eel.’
‘After I first noticed it, it nearly appeared like some floating plastic,’ she mentioned. ‘However then it began swimming. It was like a dancing, clear ribbon’
Diver Amy mentioned the ‘superb, magical’ creature was not like something she’d ever seen
In Amy’s footage, the creature is seen undulating via the water, its clear physique seemingly devoid of any organs
However Kevin Kocot, an affiliate professor at The College of Alabama specialising in invertebrate zoology, believes it’s really a ‘very uncommon’ kind of jelly.
He mentioned: ‘Some child eels have larvae known as leptocephalus larvae that look superficially very related.
‘However in the event you look intently, they’ve a head and mouth at one finish whereas this animal’s mouth is in the course of the physique.
‘It is a cestum veneris, a really uncommon comb jelly or ctenophore.
‘Most comb jellies are more-or-less rounded in form and swim with ‘combs’ – rows of cilia – however this species (and one different within the household) swims by undulating muscle mass like a ribbon.’
‘I had no thought what it was, I had by no means even seen an image of 1 earlier than,’ mentioned Amy (pictured). Some specialists have recommended that the footage exhibits an eel larva
Dr Kocot mentioned that the creature, higher generally known as a Venus girdle, survives on a food plan of ‘numerous planktonic animals like little crustaceans and barbeque’.
He mentioned: ‘This one appears to be like prefer it has a mouth filled with meals, however I can’t make out what it’s bought from the video.’
He added that they’re protected to the touch, although to not eat, and that they reproduce by laying many tiny eggs.
For Amy, who lives in Cape City, the expertise was one a sort.
‘It was the primary and final time I’ve ever seen one,’ she mentioned.
‘It was one thing very particular to see; I’ve snorkelled everywhere in the world so it was nice to see one thing so cool in my hometown. I hope I’ll see one once more sometime.
‘It was an uncommon day of snorkelling as we really noticed a number of several types of comb jellies that we had by no means seen and haven’t seen since.’
Supply: Mail On-line
