Move over Moby Dick. Get out of the water Jaws. There’s a new monster from the deep. And he’s a lobster called Eddy.

The giant crustacean, who was caught in the English Channel, is three feet long, weighs an incredible 11lb and has mammoth 18-inch claws.

But, despite being more than four times the size of the average lobster and big enough to feed ten people, he has been spared from the pot.

What a cracker: Eddy, right with his 18-inch claws, next to a regular sized lobster

Astonished fishermen John Brannan donated him to Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay, Cornwall.

Eddy, who is estimated to be 70 years old, was caught 40 miles away at Eddystone Reef in Devon.

Blue Reef Curator Matt Slater said: ‘Eddy’s a truly impressive specimen.

‘He is in fantastic condition with a bright blue body and a red-coloured claw.

‘It’s by far the largest crusher that anyone here has ever seen.

‘The claw is so large that he actually seems to have some difficulty lifting it up, particularly when he is out of the water.