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Earlier this week, two scuba divers off the coast of Babbacombe Beach, Torquay captured a very eerie scene.
Warning: If you have kabourophobia, or fear of crabs, then you may want to take a deep breath or stumble onto a different article.
About several hundred yards off the coast of a Devon Beach, the divers discovered a giant spider crab colony. The pair first noticed smaller groups of 3 or 4 crabs. Then, as they swam out further, it quickly turned into thousands of crabs in 3 or 4 layers. Yuck!
Dan Bolt and Terry Griffith described the mass-aggregation of crustaceans “like something out of a horror or alien film.” We definitely agree, something about itĀ gives us the heebie jeebies.
The pair of divers also mentioned, “It takes a couple of seconds for your brain to actually make sense of the fact that the sea-floor is actually moving with thousands of spider crabs aggregating to molt and mate.”
Believe it or not, this freaky phenomenon occurs every year, around the same time and off the coast of the British Isles.
If you didn’t get enough goosebumps… read more about the divers’ experience here.