Sydney sea monsters sighted?

have filmed and captured giant sea creatures,

like sea spiders the size of dinner plates and jelly fish

with 18 feet tentacles,

REUTERS News Wire is reporting Feb. 19th.

"Gigantism is very common in Antarctic waters.

We have collected huge worms, giant crustaceans

and sea spiders the size of dinner plates,"

 Australian scientist Martin Riddle,

voyage leader on the research ship Aurora Australis,

said on Tuesday,  "Some of the video footage we have collected is really stunning --

 it's amazing to be able to navigate undersea mountains and valleys

and actually see what the animals look like in their undisturbed state,"

Riddle said.

"In some places every inch of the sea floor is covered in life.

In other places we can see deep scars and gouges where icebergs

 scour the sea floor as they pass by,"   Riddle continued.

The three ships, the Aurora Australis, France's L'Astrolabe

and Japan's Umitaka Maru docked in Hoabrt on Australia's southern island

state of Tasmania, with their decks full of an array of sealife including

unknown species of sea creatures collected near the eastern Antarctic land mass.

Some creatures, which were retrieved from between 200 - 1,400 meters below the surface, weighed up to 30 kg (65 pounds), while some 25 percent of the sealife chronicled was previous unknown.

Sea spiders the size of dinner plates,  I AM NOT going swimming in the Antarctic Ocean now, thanks for ruining it for me!

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