Photos Offer First Glimpse Of Live Deep-sea Giant

[aok47]

A set of extraordinary images captured by Japanese scientists marks the first-ever record of a live giant squid (Architeuthis) in the wild.

[url="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0927_050927_giant_squid.html"]Link to article[/url]



Check out the photos and homemade squid jigs!!!



<img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':th' /> <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':woot:' /> <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':woot:' />



AK

[Jazman]

Great link Ange

That is a serious beast. Did you read the article? It says the tentacle they ended up recovering was 5.5 metres long, and it kept on trying to grab the boat and crew when they landed it!

:blink:

[aok47]

yeah some freaky stuff ha?



I've had the suckers on cut tentacles from freshly caught arrow squid still stick to my hand and baitboard as i try to rig them up... <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':woot:' />



...but not a 5.5m tentacle! <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':th' />



AK

[supersquid]

If you read this before 6pm the footage will be on channel nine news tonight



Thats awesome cant wait to see more and that is one serious squid jig

anyone for calamari rings lol

[Jazman]

Haha, more like calamari hula hoops!!

[glen]

Hi guys,



Here is the full article released in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B

(see attachment below)



First-ever observations of a live giant squid in the wild

Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori

Abstract

The giant squid, Architeuthis, is renowned as the largest invertebrate in the world and has featured as an ominous sea monster in novels and movies. Considerable efforts to view this elusive creature in its deep-sea habitat have been singularly unsuccessful. Our digital camera and depth recorder system recently photographed an Architeuthis attacking bait at 900 m off Ogasawara Islands in the North Pacific. Here, we show the first wild images of a giant squid in its natural environment. Recovery of a severed tentacle confirmed both identification and scale of the squid (greater than 8 m). Architeuthis appears to be a much more active predator than previously suspected, using its elongate feeding tentacles to strike and tangle prey. Keywords: giant squid; Architeuthis; first observation in natural habitat; feeding behaviour

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Here is a selection of news sites covering the giant squid siting:



[url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4288772.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4288772.stm[/url]

[url="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8064"]http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8064[/url]



And here are some great photos courtesy of T. Kubodera and K. Mori



For more information about Giant Squid check out the Giant Squid Forum-



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[glen]

Here are some more news stories relating to the recent giant squid siting:







<a

style="color: blue;"

href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/09/29/258.html">Scientists

Observe Live Giant Squid</a>



<font size="-1"><font color="#666666">The

Moscow Times - Russia</font>



... Then it began sucking on his hands. But what

came next excited him most -- hundreds of vivid photos of a rare giant

squid in its natural habitat deep undersea. ...

<a

href="http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/09/29/258.html"><font

color="green">



</font></a></font>


<a style="color: blue;"

href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2125914/">Giant

Squid, Where Are You?</a>



<font size="-1"><font color="#666666">Slate -

USA</font>



By Daniel Engber. This week, a British journal published the first-ever

pictures of a giant squid alive

in its natural habitat. A ... <a

href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2125914/"><font

color="green">



</font></a></font>


<a style="color: blue;"

href="http://www.deeperblue.net/newsfull.php/1139">Giant

Squid Captured on Camera</a>



<font size="-1"><font color="#666666">DeeperBlue.net

(press release) - UK</font>



A Japanese research team has captured more than 500 images of a Giant

Squid on camera. The research team was led by

Tsunemi Kubodera ... </font>


<a style="color: blue;"

href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4280000/newsid_4289100/4289122.stm">Photos

taken of live giant squid</a>



<font size="-1"><font color="#666666">CBBC

newsround (audio) - London,England,UK</font>



One of the most famous creatures in the sea - the giant

squid - has had its photo taken for the first time.

Dead giant squid have ...





</font>


<a style="color: blue;"

href="http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1127913121161B252">Facts

about the world's largest invertebrate</a>



<font size="-1"><font color="#666666">Independent

Online - Cape Town,South Africa</font>



Japanese scientists have taken the first photographs of one of the most

mysterious creatures in the deep ocean - the giant squid.

...



</font>


<a style="color: blue;"

href="http://www.dailybreeze.com/sports/articles/1861567.html">Weekly

Fishing Column: Scientists able to snag photos of elusive ...</a>



<font size="-1"><font color="#666666">Daily

Breeze - Torrance,CA,USA</font>



By Phil Friedman. Japanese scientists have for the first time captured

more than 500 images of a live giant squid

in the wild. The ...



</font>

[peejaypee]

wow! thats awesome! if types of squid can grow that big, its scary to think what else is down there, and also, whos to say that thats the biggest they grow??? :blink:

has anyone been to the aquarium and seen the one on ice, i'd love to go and see it, if its any good.

pj

[glen]

The famous Japanese zoologist, Tsunemi Kubodera (who used a remote control camera to photograph the deep-sea giant attacking a bait) presented the photos at the international cephalopod conference in Hobart this week.

"We estimate our specimen must be more than eight metres in total length, so it's a huge squid," he said.

See here for more details about the conference -



[url="http://www.squidfish.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=973"]Hobart conference[/url]