A marine researcher has found a massive American eel on a Texas beach. Hear about it on Urban Legends and Stranger Truths. A Texas marine researcher has found a big surprise during a beach survey last week on Mustang Island, jace Turnell, who is a reserve director at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, shared a video on his YouTube channel of an American eel that he found while counting birds and looking for stranded sea turtles. Quote this is basically as big as they get. Tenell exclaimed in this video