{"id":155837,"date":"2023-01-19T23:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/couple-captures-rare-footage-of-a-giant-squid-swimming-off-the-coast-of-japan"},"modified":"2023-01-19T23:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:23:38","slug":"couple-captures-rare-footage-of-a-giant-squid-swimming-off-the-coast-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/couple-captures-rare-footage-of-a-giant-squid-swimming-off-the-coast-of-japan","title":{"rendered":"Couple Captures Rare Footage of a Giant Squid Swimming Off The Coast of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZExVcs3uSE0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A pair of scuba divers has captured rare video and photos of a 2.5-meter (eight-foot) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giant_squid\">giant squid<\/a> swimming in the waters off Japan\u2019s west coast.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Yosuke Tanaka and his wife Miki, who operate a diving business in Toyooka city in the Hyogo region, were alerted to the squid by a fishing equipment vendor who had spotted it in a bay.<\/p>\n<p>The couple took their boat out to reach the creature as it floated near a rocky shoreline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of scuba divers has captured rare video and photos of a 2.5-meter (eight-foot) giant squid swimming in the waters off Japan\u2019s west coast. Earlier this month, Yosuke Tanaka and his wife Miki, who operate a diving business in Toyooka city in the Hyogo region, were alerted to the squid by a fishing equipment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}