'It looked like a big condom': Diver is stunned as bizarre-looking 30-foot 'sea serpent' appears in front of him off of New Zealand

一名潜水员在新西兰海域看到30英尺长的“海蛇”出现在他面前时惊呆了：“它看起来像一个大避孕套”

This is the moment a diver comes face to face with a bizarre-looking underwater 'sea serpent'.

这是一名潜水员与水下“海蛇”面对面的时刻。

Ben Laurie, 21, encountered the 30-foot creature while diving near Cape Brett on New Zealand's North Island.

21岁的本·劳里在新西兰北岛布雷特角附近潜水时遇到了这种30英尺长的生物。

Despite his years of diving experience he said he had no idea what it was and had never seen one before.

尽管他有多年的潜水经验，但他不知道那是什么，以前也从未见过。

In a video of the dive, the creature - which he compared to a condom - floats underwater surrounded by much smaller marine life.

他把这种生物比作避孕套，它漂浮在水下，周围是小得多的海洋生物。

'We were diving there for kingfish and we had plugged a couple, and then we were coming up from one of the dives when my friend saw this thing,' said Ben.

本说:“我们在那里潜水寻找无鳔石首鱼，从一处潜水点出来的时候，我的朋友看到了这个东西。”

'It did look almost like a big condom. It was 30 feet long and more than a foot and a half, and it was just flowing with the tide,' he added.

“它看起来确实像一个大避孕套，有30英尺长，在那随波逐流。”他补充说。

Ben Laurie, who has years of experience in the water and is an ambassador for the WildBlue dive shop, said he had seen nothing like it.

本·劳里有多年的潜水经验，是WildBlue潜水店的形象大使。

'I didn't know what it was at the time, so it was quite a confusing thing,' he said.

'We get these little like plankton build-ups – they're like small stringy things but they're only like eight inches long – so I thought it was just a large one of them.

'But one of the guys touched it and said it wasn't soft at all, it was more like a cardboard sort of texture.'

他说，当时我不知道这是什么。这些微小的浮游生物聚集在一起——它们就像细绳一样但只有8英寸长，我以为这只是其中最大的一只。其中一个人摸了一下，说它一点也不软，更像是纸板的质地。

In fact it is believed to be a pyrosome, a floating colony made up of thousands of sea squirts which feeds by filtering microscopic plant cells out of the sea.

事实上，这是火体虫，一种由成千上万的海鞘组成的浮动群体，它们通过过滤海洋中微小的植物细胞来获取食物。

Each squirt draws in water from outside the pyrosome and then releases the filtered water inside the colony.

每只海鞘从火体虫外部吸进水，然后在内部释放过滤过的水。

'Apparently they only come from depths of 2,000 metres, so it's quite rare for them to be up in the shallows like that,' said the diver, from Kerikeri.

“很明显，它们是从2000米深处游上来的，在那样的浅水区里生活对它们来说是很罕见的。”这位来自克里克里的潜水员说到。

'It must have been sick or something. Once it gets a bit too high, because it's got more of a softer texture, the fish seem to eat it, so that's why it stays deep.'

“它一定是病了还是怎么样的。一旦它从深处往上游，就会变得更柔软，鱼似乎也会吃它，所以它要待在深水区。”

'A scientist said it's pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime rare thing to see.'

一位科学家说，这几乎是一生难得一见的景象。

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译文来源：三泰虎 http://www.santaihu.com/47038.html   译者：Jessica.Wu

外文：https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6695527/Diver-stunned-30-foot-sea-serpent-appears-him.html

Orc, Auckland, New Zealand, 50 minutes ago

Wish they'd put a giant condom over New Zealand

真希望他们能在新西兰上空放一个巨大的避孕套

cockycockney, london, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

a whale condom maybe haha

鲸鱼用的避孕套，哈哈

Diverroy, Worcester, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

He may be hunting for food.

它可能在寻找食物。

Gaynorloulou76, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

Looks nothing like a condom

看起来一点也不像避孕套

Reg Snipe, Derby, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago

Has Nessie emigrated and moved south.

尼斯湖水怪已经向南迁徙了吗？

banger377, rehoboth, United States, 3 hours ago

That's a plastic mast sock covered with algae.

那是一只覆盖着海藻的塑料袜子。

harrycoal, Tracy Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands, 4 hours ago

One of my old condoms.

我的一个旧避孕套。

Hotoffthepress, L.A., United States, 4 hours ago

Looks like a plastic bag to me.

在我看来像一个塑料袋。

Rainforest, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago

More like a kleenex.

更像一张纸巾。

Rainforest, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago

He called it a condom because he knew that would create a media storm.

他之所以说像避孕套，是因为这样才能引起媒体的注意。

Rainforest, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago

He should have called Ghost Busters.

他应该打电话给捉鬼敢死队。

Rainforest, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago

Nessie.

尼斯湖水怪。

Luvinlulakins, Outermongolia, Ireland, 7 hours ago

Looks like plastic

看起来像塑料

Constable Plod, Sydney, Australia, 7 hours ago

Looks like plastic tube used to wrap a long carpet. Note the 'head" appears to be just folded over.

看起来像用来包裹长地毯的塑料管。注意，“头部”似乎只是被折叠起来了。

waianapa, Eastbourne, 10 hours ago

Sorry should not have flushed my condom down the loo

对不起，我不该把避孕套冲进厕所

Dave Briody, Uk, United Kingdom, 11 hours ago

Rubbish that¿s all that is

那都是垃圾

Earthling, Milkyway, United States, 11 hours ago

Whale's condom, move on, nothing to see here....

鲸鱼避孕套，继续，这里没什么可看的

mortalanemones, Senoia, United States, 12 hours ago

Where does he buy his condoms from?

@Earthling 他从哪里买避孕套?

Northern Englishman, Durham, United Kingdom, 12 hours ago

Its a Salp.

这是一只樽海鞘。

Fat_minister, Manchester, United Kingdom, 12 hours ago

If it looks like a piece of plastic, it probably is.

看起来像一块塑料，那可能就是。

Texan Chick, Fort Wurth, United States, 12 hours ago

Nessie on vacation

尼斯湖水怪在度假

Steve, Dublin, Ireland, 12 hours ago

Straight to the comments

我是来看评论的

l_louk, london, United Kingdom, 12 hours ago

where is the head???? it looks like plastic rubbish

头在哪里?? 看起来像塑料垃圾

easyvibe421, Dublin , Ireland, 13 hours ago

it's just a moray eel I think they can grow to be quite long

一条海鳗而已，它们可以长得很长

BillLoni2, LoniLand, United Kingdom, 13 hours ago

Se Bob Square pants should investigate at once.

海绵宝宝应该立即展开调查。