Staffers at wholesale nfl jerseys china the institute are calling it the discovery of a lifetime.

"We've never seen a fish this big," said Mark Waddington, senior nfl jerseys china captain of the Tole Mour, CIMI's sail training ship. "The last oarfish we saw was three feet long."

The obscure fish apparently died of natural causes. Tissue samples and video footage were sent to be studied by biologists cheap nfl jerseys at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Santana spotted something shimmering about nine metres deep while snorkelling during a staff trip in Toyon Bay at Santa Catalina Island.

"She said, china cheap nfl jerseys 'I have to drag this thing out of here or nobody will believe me,' " Waddington said.

After she dragged the carcass by the nfl jerseys china tail for more than 23 metres, staffers waded in and helped her bring it to shore.

"It took 15 or 20 of us to pick it up," Jeff Chace, a program director with CIMI, which runs a camp at Toyon Bay that teaches children to snorkel, kayak and hike, told television station KTBC TV.

Instructors from CIMI china wholesale nfl jerseys were unloading gear from a trip to Santa Barbara Island when they spotted Santana pulling the oarfish ashore.

"The craziest thing we saw during our two day journey at sea wholesale nfl jerseys happened when we got home," instructor Connor Gallagher said in a CIMI news release.

"It's one of these rare, weird things you see in southern California," Chace said of the oarfish.

The carcass was on display Tuesday for students studying at CIMI. It will be buried in the sand until it decomposes cheap nfl jerseys china and then its skeleton will be reconstituted for display, Waddington said.