BBC news reports "Scuba divers off the Californian city of San Diego are being menaced by large numbers of jumbo squid."Evidentally, the five-foot long jumbo flying squid do not generally affect swimmers because they remain deeper in the water. However, many have been washing up on the beach in San Diego, and affecting scuba divers.
Diver and amateur underwater cameraman Roger Uzun said he swam with a group of squid for about 20 minutes.
They seemed curious about him, he said, and appeared to be touching him and his wetsuit with their tentacles to see if he was edible.
"As soon as we went underwater and turned on the video lights, there they were. They would ram into you, they kept hitting the back of my head," he told AP.
Listen to the informative and sometimes funny interview the BBC held with John Hyde of the US National Marine Fisheries Service:
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