Injured giant squid knocks paddle boarder in water during dramatic encounter in South Africa

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James Taylor is used to adventure. The 39-year-old South African extreme sports fanatic regularly posts videos of his feats on his Facebook page. One day he is scaling cliffs in Thailand. The next week he is skydiving over another exotic location.

But recently the married father of one had an adventure he didn’t necessarily ask for when he came across a giant squid while paddleboarding off the coast of Melkbosstrand, South Africa, and decided to catch it then and there.

“It was quite badly injured and barely alive when I caught it,” he wrote on Facebook, where he posted the video last week. “It didn’t even really try and get away, so we ended up putting it out of its misery when we got to the beach. It felt like the best thing to do at the time.”

Taylor’s decision to drag the giant squid ashore didn’t come without drama, both in the sea and later online.

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