While exploring off the West Florida Escarpment in the Gulf of Mexico, we had a ghostly encounter with a bigfin squid (Magnapinna sp.). Observations of bigfin squid are pretty unusual; roughly a dozen sightings have been confirmed worldwide. So, when we captured an adult bigfin squid during the Windows to the Deep 2021 expedition, it was quite an exciting moment.

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Video courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, Windows to the Deep 2021.

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