A HUMAN-SIZED squid egg sac has been caught on camera by divers who had a close encounter with the gelatinous blob.
A video posted to YouTube shows divers swimming around the transparent membrane, which has a dark mass and hundreds of thousands of baby squid floating inside.
The video was shared by Ronald Raasch who was on the dive with the Norwegian research vessel REV Ocean.
It shows divers swimming around the blob and lighting it up with a torch.
Inside the egg sac you can make out lots of little eggs with baby squid inside.
The dark mass in the middle is thought to be some ink from the female squid who made the sac.
The egg was spotted as the divers visited a submerged World War II shipwreck located 650 feet off the coast of Ørstafjorden, Norway.
The blob drifted past them when they were about 55 feet below the surface.
Dozens of similar blobs have been reported over the past 30 years in areas such as Norway, Spain, France and Italy.
Scientists were initially baffled by floating membranes, which are so delicate they are difficult to sample for testing.
According to Live Science, previous DNA analysis of some of the sacs confirmed that they belonged to the southern shortfin squid.
Halldis Ringvold, a researcher investigating the sacs, said in a statement: "The dark mass is probably ink from the female squid, who injected it while making the sphere.
"At the very end of the video, it is possible to see the actual squid eggs. They are very small, round and transparent."
Ringvold thinks its likely that the newly found egg sac was made by the shortfin squid even though these sacs typically only measure one metre in diameter.
Female shortfin squids are usually around 25 to 27 cm long and their eggs can grow to 0.2cm before they're ready to hatch.
It can take around two weeks for them to get to this stage, given the right water temperature.
Each sac is thought to contain between 50,000 to 200,000 eggs.
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