Lobster with Pepsi Tattoo Fished In Canada !

Here's an unusual story I just came across while browsing the news. About a month ago, a lobster with a pepsi "tattoo" on its claw was fished off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada. Don't believe me? Here's a photo:

 
Credit: Karissa Lindstrand 

As you can see, the photo of the claw shows half of the pepsi logo and even the upper lid of a can! Whether this imprint came from an actual Pepsi can or a photo (e.g. from a box) or whatever still remains unclear, although I will make sure to update you if anything new comes up. 

The story first came out on CBC, which reported that the photo was taken by Karissa Lindstrand who "had already spent five hours banding lobster claws on a boat called Honour Bound, off Grand Manan, when a blue and red logo she knew well caught her eye."

"I can't say how he got it on. It seemed more like a tattoo or a drawing on the lobster rather than something growing into it." Lindstrand said.

So, how could this thing have happened? Well, there are a few theories. One says that the claw might had grown around a pepsi can while another says that a Pepsi box could have gotten stuck on the animal. However, Lindstrand disagrees with both of them. According to her, the "tattoo" was pixelated, so it couldn't have been a can. And it can't be from a pepsi box, cause those images are too large for the claw. 

Chances are it didn't came from something made of paper,  cause paper deteriorates too fast in the water so overall, there appears to be no good theories at the moment, to which Lindstrand agrees:

"I’m still trying to wrap my brain around what exactly it was." she said.

What do you think? Can you come up with a good explanation?

As for the fate of the lobster, according to TheGuardian it was placed in a crate along with other lobsters and probably ended up in a restaurant or something.

Regardless of how the tattoo came to be, the incident serves as a reminder of the mess we have made of our planet and in this case all the rubbish, chemicals and other shit we have filled our oceans with. To give you just an idea of the damage,  about 100,000 turtles and marine mammals, such as dolphins, whales and seals, are killed by plastic litter ALONE each and every year. The wider picture of course is even worse,  for example one million seabirds die each year thanks to plastic litter!

Ok, enough with the depressing stuff. Let me close today's post with a video uploaded by MBARI two days ago, showing some really cool sponges and corals. The footage was taken at the Sur Ridge, 35 kilometers off the Big Sur coast and 800 meters below the sea surface. Enjoy: 

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