The two Jamaicans happened to be out fishing on a Sunday morning (November 2013) when they hooked what ended to be a 900-pound scale less beast of a fish. Both fishers, Desmond Phillips and Michael Grant, had never seen anything that looked like their strange, midmorning catch and at one point were frightened that they had someway captured an alien.

The monstrous fish was later identified as a “sunfish”. Not a native inhabitant of the waters along the coast of Bryans Bay in Portland, Jamaica. The sunfish consumes mostly jellyfish; however has a taste for squids, sponges, Portuguese man of war and other various invertebrates.

The Ocean Sunfish (Mola or Mola Mola) is a slow-moving fish that likes to move with the ocean currents. Although a 900-pound fish is enormous, for this species it is just a baby. The typical adult size of a sunfish is 2,200 lbs. However, the largest sunfish documented weighed in at 4,927 pounds and was 10 feet long with a large 14-foot measurement from dorsal to anal fin (top and bottom fins).