 The weight of the body and head would have been at least four or five tons.If the eight arms held the proportions usually seen in smaller species of the octopus, they would have been at least 75 to 100 feet in length and about 18 inches in diameter at the base.On January 16, the "Tatler", a local news sheet that reported on the visitors to St. Augustine hotels, ran a story about the stranded creature.