Author Topic: Live Giant Squid photographed in the wild. (Read 4314 times)

Justin · « **on:** September 28, 2005, 02:06:03 PM »

TOKYO - The giant squid can be found in books and in myths, but for the first time, a team of Japanese scientists has captured on film one of the most mysterious creatures of the deep sea in its natural habitat.
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The team led by Tsunemi Kubodera, from the National Science Museum in Tokyo, tracked the 26-foot long Architeuthis as it attacked prey nearly 3,000 feet deep off the coast of Japan's Bonin islands.

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Paddy · « **Reply #1 on:** September 28, 2005, 02:40:35 PM »

There are probably many things under the ocean we have yet to see. Anybody a fan of "Surface"? I especially like the scene from above in the last episode where the creature came up and swallowed the boat along with the two fisherman and the smoker chick with the tatoos.

Standing Wolf · « **Reply #2 on:** September 28, 2005, 06:46:08 PM »

In exactly one word: calamari!

Antibubba · « **Reply #3 on:** September 28, 2005, 10:11:05 PM »

Those Japanese undersea scientists had better be careful, lest they awaken the savage fury of GODZILLA!!!!!

Guest · « **Reply #4 on:** September 28, 2005, 10:18:25 PM »

Huh. Been paying too much attention to the bike thread. Saw the title, assumed it was about some late teenage kid in flipflops and a T-shirt weighing 350lb on a GSXR1300.

Guest · « **Reply #5 on:** September 28, 2005, 10:54:20 PM »

Quote from: JimMarch

Huh. Been paying too much attention to the bike thread. Saw the title, assumed it was about some late teenage kid in flipflops and a T-shirt weighing 350lb on a GSXR1300.

yet if you put him on a Harley he becomes a "biker". :p

It really is amazing that we have known about these things for so long, and that they are so big, yet we have only now actually seen a live one. It gives one an idea of just how little we understand about even our own world.

client32 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 29, 2005, 03:58:46 AM »

Quote from: Antibubba

Those Japanese undersea scientists had better be careful, lest they awaken the savage fury of GODZILLA!!!!!

You should know that Godzilla is a just a legend. It is Cthulhu that we should really worry about.

Winston Smith · « **Reply #7 on:** September 29, 2005, 05:31:55 AM »

You know that they turned off the cameras and then ate the *expletive deleted*it out of that emmmm-effffer

SalukiFan · « **Reply #8 on:** September 29, 2005, 06:35:27 AM »

Great, now I have something new to have nightmares about. rolleyes

Honestly though, that is very cool. People have been trying to photograph them for years - Kudos to the Japanese scientists!

Nightfall · « **Reply #9 on:** September 29, 2005, 06:52:42 AM »

That is very cool. It's also scary as $*&@... I wonder how much bigger they really get... Shocked

RadioFreeSeaLab · « **Reply #10 on:** September 29, 2005, 07:40:24 AM »

Quote from: standing wolf

In exactly one word: calamari!

Exactly!

Nathaniel Firethorn · « **Reply #11 on:** September 29, 2005, 09:19:04 AM »

CaliMARi? What a waste!

- NF

RocketMan · « **Reply #12 on:** September 29, 2005, 04:55:29 PM »

Mmmmmm....Ika! Good stuff.

Standing Wolf · « **Reply #13 on:** September 29, 2005, 05:08:37 PM »

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CaliMARi? What a waste!

I'd like sushi a lot more if I could order it battered and deep-fried.

Sylvilagus Aquaticus · « **Reply #14 on:** September 29, 2005, 06:31:04 PM »

....it's still BAIT!

Of course, when the fishing's slow, fresh dead squid ain't too bad.

Regards,
Rabbit.

Guest · « **Reply #15 on:** September 29, 2005, 08:54:02 PM »

Line from a very bad novel:

"The man in the restaurant was happy. The calamari had been excellent, as always. He now waited for his after dinner mints with baited breath..."

Schuey2002 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 30, 2005, 07:04:43 PM »

Quote from: Nightfall

That is very cool. It's also scary as $*&@... I wonder how much bigger they really get... Shocked

One that was 57 ft. long washed ashore in New Zealand in 1881..

vernal45 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 30, 2005, 08:30:36 PM »

There are creatures beneath the sea that we dont know about. Others help out here, I used to have pictures of sea creature, big and small, caught or washed up.

Guest · « **Reply #18 on:** September 30, 2005, 08:42:12 PM »

Well somewhere I recall reading about a giant squid that washed up many years ago...big one up past 50ft. Somebody saved some tentacle parts...and in more modern times they did a DNA analysis.

It wasn't a squid. It was an octopus. A big sucker we've never seen.

Preacherman · « **Reply #19 on:** October 01, 2005, 12:51:09 AM »

Nightfall, I understand that from measurements of scars on sperm whales (which hunt giant squid), and from recovered body parts washed up on beaches, scientists postulate that giant squid may grow to over 100 feet in length. However, you needn't be scared of them... they live in very, very deep water (this one was photographed nearly 3,000 feet down), and if you find yourself that deep in the water, without a submarine around you to protect you, I assure you that being eaten by a giant squid will be the least of your concerns! Wink

Lo.Com.Denom · « **Reply #20 on:** October 01, 2005, 06:25:44 AM »

I read on the BBC website that there's an even bigger species of squid than Architeuthis dux, called Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, the Colossal Squid!! Anyone ever read "Beast" by Peter Benchley? EEEK!!

Fly320s · « **Reply #21 on:** October 01, 2005, 12:39:43 PM »

OK, I'll ask it first... "what caliber for giant squid?"

Nightfall · « **Reply #22 on:** October 02, 2005, 11:35:20 AM »

Preacherman, I didn't say it was a rational fear. Tongue

I've just got aphobia of big things moving around in dark water. I ruled out deep sea diver as a career prospect long ago. Cheesy

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