Giant Squid Filmed Live First Time!

[brucestephenson]

The Japanese have filmed the giant squid live. A 26 foot specimen at a depth of 3000 feet attacking bait! http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050927191909990024&ncid=NWS00010000000001

 

[lizard lover1994]

ccooooll

 

[Junkyard]

26 feet is HUGE for a giant squid. I found these pics, soeof these are only 13 feet!!

 

[Reptileking636]

but the squid might have been much bigger, their calculations were based on the assumption that the tentacle shapped at the base

 

[Karen Hulvey]

That is so neat. I knew that eventually someone would get a giant squid on video, it was just a matter of time. No one really knows how large these things can get. Giant squid have left marks on blue whales, the largest whale. So if they are attacking blue whales, they must grow to enormous proportions.

 

[Reptileking636]

That is so neat. I knew that eventually someone would get a giant squid on video, it was just a matter of time. No one really knows how large these things can get. Giant squid have left marks on blue whales, the largest whale. So if they are attacking blue whales, they must grow to enormous proportions.

Whoa, i dont even want to think about how massive that thing must be to try and take on a blue whale!

 

[SiscoReptiles]

I believe that both Jamie & Adam would have to agree that urban myths found on old sea bearing maps of Giant Squid attacking boats in the middle of the sea is now Plausible!

I am sure Buster is relieved that he doesn't have to prove this myth.

Rick

 

[Mooing Tricycle]

Whoa, i dont even want to think about how massive that thing must be to try and take on a blue whale!

i dont think its blue whales, though i could be wrong i havent looked it up. But i know for a fact that they do leave scars on Sperm Whales since im pretty positive the Giant squid makes up a decent size of their diet.

we dont even know that much about sperm whales since every time they try to film fromt he backs of these animals the recorder falls off and they also cant go as deep as the whales dive i guess...

I was so excited though when i heard about this! ( i know it was forever ago but i just stumbled upon this thread!! sorry! >_< lol ) I mean who would have thought that wed FINALLY see some living footage of these guys!? ^_^ so awsome!

 

[hognoseman]

ya

Hey did any one hear that they resently caught a live specimen of the ampire squid form hell! they have had many failed atempets at this so it is pretty cool in my opinion that they caught one finally!

 

[RosterImposter]

That is so neat. I knew that eventually someone would get a giant squid on video, it was just a matter of time. No one really knows how large these things can get. Giant squid have left marks on blue whales, the largest whale. So if they are attacking blue whales, they must grow to enormous proportions.

Here is something I found on google video. A squid taking on a shark, scale this up, and I believe it is what it would look if a giant squid took on a whale.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7004909622962894202

 

[Griz]

That would be an octopus not a squid. Still a very cool video!

Griz

 

[RosterImposter]

I knew I forgot something, but I still believe it would look something like that.

 

[420Geckos]

cool video. reminds me of a story i heard... the owner of a tropical fish store had become suspicous after several of his fish had gone missing. he suspected an employee so he set up a camera to catch the thief in the act. to his surprise it wasn't an employee, but an octopus! it actually would leave it's tank crawl to another, eat the fish and return back to it's tank. pretty crazy!

 

[telula2]

Its not so cool how they used the monster jig to snag it. Then it fought for four hours before losing a tentacle...that was still crawling around on the deck when they pulled it up. (thats cool). I was kind of put off because its great that we can see it and everything but that just opens the door to exploit it. If its so mysterious why would they want to rip apart the first one they found?

 

[RosterImposter]

Exploit it??? How in the world could we do that? Giant Squid were found a century before we have even found a live one. I really dont think this will change anything other than the people doing research on that tentacle.

 

[telula2]

Giant squid have been found all over...dead! Now that we found a live one, which was the goal of scientists for years, you dont see at least the potential for problems? I guess exploit may have been the wrong word to use. I just feel like whenever we discover something it becomes vulnerable in some way. I know the words giant squid and vulnerable anywhere near each other is kind of rediculous. I don't know, I hope I'm wrong. And they may have been able to draw some blood from that tentacle. I'm not sure if it would be considerdd alive at that point or just on auto pilot nerve wise. Seriously, not even sarcastic in any way, what do you think we might be able to learn from it?

 

[SnAkEmAsTeR297]

Seriously, not even sarcastic in any way, what do you think we might be able to learn from it?

They can learn how good calamari from Architeuthis dux tastes . Seriously though, they'd probably use it for genetic research or something, since all the giant squid they've found to date have been rotting messes washed up on the beach or floating in the ocean.

 

[SnAkEmAsTeR297]

Oh yeah, and Sperm whales are the only whales that take on Giant squid. They're the largest toothed whales and even though blue whales are much bigger, all they have is baleen, and it's no good against a giant squid

 

[INSANE CANES]

Wow that is one very big squid.

Thanks for the octopus video, that was cool.

 

[hoi-herps]

that links broken heres a new one
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9503272/