‘Huge’ creature shocks people on prawning trip, Canada video shows. ‘That’s a kraken’
A shrimping trip in Canada took an unexpected turn when a massive sea creature surfaced, video shows.
Brooke Sattar of Port Alberni and her family placed prawn traps off the coast of Vancouver Island in late December, she told CTV on Dec. 30. The family later went back to retrieve a trap.
“When we first started pulling the trap up, it was super heavy so we just thought it was a pretty full prawn trap,” Sattar told Global News.
As the trap surfaced, a massive orange octopus came, too. The octopus had its tentacles wrapped around the trap, clinging to the sides and top, a TIkTok video shared by Sattar on Dec. 28 shows.
“That’s so huge!” someone exclaimed in the video.
“Pretty sure that’s a kraken,” one user commented on the video. The creature, however, is likely a giant Pacific octopus, CTV reported.
“I’ve never seen one this big,” another shocked voice said in the video. The octopus was around 8 feet long, Sattar told CTV.
“I want to eat it, but I don’t know how to get it off,” someone else said in the video.
The octopus held onto the trap for two or three minutes, Sattar told Global News. “Then it just let go and swam away,” she said.
The video stunned many viewers. “That would scare me more than a shark,” one TikTok user commented.
“We do not eat the kraken, sir,” another person wrote responding to the video.
Another user wrote, “we cannot forget… highly intelligent danger sea spider is not to be messed with.”
Sattar told CTV the experience was “super cool. … I always love sharing the beauty of Vancouver Island and all these experiences that not everyone gets to experience.”
Vancouver Island is about 75 miles west of Vancouver. Port Alberni is on the southern half of the island along its longest inlet.
This story was originally published January 3, 2023 at 3:01 PM with the headline "‘Huge’ creature shocks people on prawning trip, Canada video shows. ‘That’s a kraken’."
