How absolutely mindblowingly perfect is this? A French yacht taking place in a round-the-world sailing race was attacked by a giant squid. The perfect part? The trophy they’re going for is the Jules Verne around-the-world sailing trophy.
“The squid was pulling really hard, so we put the boat about and when we came to a stop the tentacles let go. We saw it behind the boat – and it was enormous. I have been sailing for 40 years, and I have never seen the like,” he said.
Crew member Didier Ragault, who spotted the creature through a port-hole said \”the tentacles were as thick as my arm wearing an oil-skin, and I immediately thought of the damage it could do.
“When we saw it behind the boat it must have been seven, eight or nine metres long,” he said.
(Via G’day Cobbers)