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Incredible footage shows diver swimming with giant squid alongside Japanese dock

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Diver Akinobu Kimura swims with a giant squid on Thursday alongside a dock on Toyama Bay, central Japan, in video footage filmed by an onlooker. Photo: YouTube

Video footage has captured an unprecedented encounter between a live giant squid and a diver after the creature was spotted swimming next to a dock in Japan’s Toyama Bay.

Giant squid are almost never seen alive. But the 4-metre specimen was spotted alongside the dock in the central Japanese port city on Christmas Eve, treating onlookers to a rare sighting.

WATCH: Unprecedented encounter with giant squid in Toyama, Japan

Japan seems to be the place to find these near-mythic beasts: The first-ever images of a giant squid in the wild were snapped off the coast of the Ogasawara Islands in 2004, and the first film of a living adult came from the same area in 2012.

One intrepid diver had a close encounter with the real-life sea monster.

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