WATCH: Fishermen catch 6-kilo lobster in Bermuda

A gigantic lobster weighing up to six kilos was caught by several fishermen during an expedition at Bermuda last week.

Sanctuary Marine Bermuda shared snaps of the mammoth creature  on their Facebook page on Saturday and inserted the caption, “Hurricane Nicole blew in some sea monsters… 14 pounds (6.3 kilos) lobster, caught and released!” The “lucky catch” coincidentally came after Hurricane Nicole ravaged the country recently.

They also shared a GoPro headcam footage of the lobster.

It all began when worker Tristan Loescher, a worker from the fishing charter, reeled the crustacean to the boat.

“He swam out, expecting to find a gray snapper, and found a male Carribean spiny lobster instead,” Matthew Jones, Loescher’s co-worker, told The Huffington Post. “It was one of the biggest lobsters we’ve ever seen.”

At first, the group considered enclosing the animal inside an aquarium. However, the group decided to liberate the lobster into the sea. “It’s not typically caught that way so we decided to let it go,” Jones added.  The fishermen earned kudos from Facebook users for releasing the crustacean back into its natural habitat.

Though the lobster was tremendously huge, it was not enough to beat the world record holder. In 1997, several fishermen caught a lobster that weighed 44 pounds (19.9 kilos) in Nova Scotia, Canada.  Gianna Francesca Catolico

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