Kraken

Kraken is the second episode of the third season of the thriller horror docudrama found-footage television series Lost Tapes. It originally aired on Animal Planet on September 28, 2010, alongside Zombies, and was directed by Douglas Segal.

Plot
In the Summer of 2006, two oil rig workers (Per and his friend) on the Virtanen Deep Sea Oil Platform in the Baltic Sea are attacked by an unknown creature. Their bodies were never found. The following Spring, documentarian James Werner follows a treasure hunter named Derek Barrow and his crew of three (Brad Downing, Sasha Porsis, and Ron McCorkle) when he goes to recover the wreck of a Finnish ship supposedly loaded with Tsarist gold and treasure in the Baltic Sea.

On their way to the site of the wreck, their boat hits something, but it does not damage the ship. Once they reach the wreck, Brad makes a dive to try to find the treasure, intending to do so in just one dive. While submerged, he notices that the center of the shipwreck appears to be "crushed like a beer can", but he dismisses water pressure because the depth is too low for that.

Then he sees something drifting in the distance which he cannot identify due to the murky water, and is suddenly attacked by a mostly unseen creature. Radio contact with Brad is lost, and while the crew goes to the deck to wait to see if he will resurface, the underwater camera captures what appears to be an enormous squid mantle. After hours pass and there is no sign of him, Sasha decides to go down to try to rescue him. She discovers Brad's body far below, and is suddenly attacked, too.

Captain Barrow and Werner try to locate her by sight (seeing a tentacle slap the window), but instead find Ron dead, his rib cage crushed and covered with a strange ink. The two see a light in the distance, and Barrow takes out a rifle, saying the light is not a boat while the glowing creature (giving an outline of an enormous squid) heads under the boat.

Sasha surfaces, but is pulled back into the water by a giant tentacle and killed. The creature whacks Barrow with one of its tentacles and later grabs him with another tentacle after ramming the boat again, and then suddenly emerges behind Werner, who turns and captures the gigantic eye of the creature on camera right before it attacks and kills him. The following morning, a ferry heading to the oil rig discovered floating debris from the destroyed boat, and Captain Barrow was found clinging to a small raft, but he refused to speak of the incident, and vowed to never return to the sea again. The bodies of James Werner and Barrow's crew were never recovered.