{"id":666111,"date":"2026-10-26T19:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666111\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:50:11","slug":"dfo-dives-into-below-buzz-with-joke-post-about-mysterious-sea-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666111\/","title":{"rendered":"DFO Dives into \u2018Below\u2019 Buzz with Joke Post About Mysterious Sea Creature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dfo-squid.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"DFO Dives into 'Below' Buzz with Joke Post About Mysterious Sea Creature\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(via Department of Fisheries and Oceans\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is getting in on the craze surrounding the Netflix series Below. <\/p>\n<p>DFO recently posted a warning to mariners about a mysterious creature spotted in the water surrounding Twillingate. <\/p>\n<p>The tongue-in-cheek post indicates that researchers are trying to determine whether the creature is a giant squid, an iceberg, fog or \u201csimply the result of watching too much\u201d of Below. <\/p>\n<p>DFO says while icebergs and giant squid are both real, the presence of sea monsters remains unconfirmed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (via Department of Fisheries and Oceans\/Facebook) The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is getting in on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,222384,151325,222381,82,222383,222385,222382,222378,222379,222380,263],"class_list":["post-666111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-science","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}