Live Giant Squid finally caught on film in the wild

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:45 am

The Kizzy wrote:I hate the metric system

FU Antonio Davis!

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:56 am

That's alot of calamari.

The Kizzy · Post by **The Kizzy** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:07 am

calamari drool

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:09 am

They do? How can you tell under water?
:wink:

Maeya · Post by **Maeya** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:30 am

a little over 3 feet to a meter so that would make it bigger than 24 feet, I think. I hate the metric system

right around 26 and a half feet

Haha.. I re-ran my math and came up with 26 feet this time. Wonder what I typed in the first time? In order to get my 16.25 I would've had to divide by 19.2. :nuts:

Thank you for the corrections =)

So that just makes this an even BIGER-ER squid!

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:32 am

it's not even that large

they've got a TON of video/pics of scars left on humpback whales from fights with these things

Treehorn · Post by **Treehorn** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:39 am

Amazing rare footage of a giant squid and its natural enemy.

The Kizzy · Post by **The Kizzy** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:43 am

Post by **Arlos** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:58 am

Yeah, marine biologists have seen some really impressive scarring on some sperm whales that had to have come from Giant Squid. The largest we've caught or seen dead samples of have been just over 50 feet long. There is something of a direct relationship between sucker size and squid size. We know how big the suckers are on the 50-foot ones, yet some of the scarring we've seen on Sperm Whales seems to come from suckers that may have been as much as half again as big, or even larger.

So, it's rather likely that there's 75-100 foot long squid out there, and who knows how big they can get, ultimately.

-Arlos

Maeya · Post by **Maeya** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 12:05 pm

Incredible. And scary... especially considering that Sperm Whales average about 50 feet or so. Have there been any documeted cases of a whale loosing the fight with one of these?

Also, hehe, is anyone else reminded of The Beast?

The Kizzy · Post by **The Kizzy** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 12:06 pm

That is some scary stuff.

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:18 pm

I'm going to build a squid scuba tank so it can go on land and ravage downtown Pakistan.

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:19 pm

I'll even get it a little marine costume, so people will be like "omg how cute" and stand their wanting to pet the squid but instead my combat squid snatches them up and gnaws them to pieces with it's gnashing beak while pulling down buildings with it's radioactive tentacles.

Jimmy Durante · Post by **Jimmy Durante** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:29 pm

Super Squid? :eyecrazy:

Post by **Arlos** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:44 pm

"It's only half to two-thirds grown, so it grows up to four metres in mantle length." By comparison, the mantle of the giant squid, Architeuthis dux, is not known to attain more than 2.25 metres.

Wow, that species of squid could reach > 100 feet in length all told. NOT something you want to run into, face to face.

-Arlos

Maeya · Post by **Maeya** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 1:49 pm

Geeze...pretty incredible.

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:23 pm

If you ever played WoW back when The Nameless was mainly us old EQ people, you would have known of my giant squid fear. For some reason I find the idea of giant squid fucking terrifying. I dunno why, I just do.

People in the guild use to mail me winter squid and put up squid threats in the MoTD all the time. Damn me for admitting my irrational fear.

Tuggan · Post by **Tuggan** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:46 pm

it kinda bothers me that we know more about space than we do the oceans. i wanna see a 100ft squid at sea world damnit.

The Kizzy · Post by **The Kizzy** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:49 pm

my two biggest fears are space and bodies of water

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:25 pm

Guild MoTD: Giant Squid are coming for Adivina!

*cry*

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:29 pm

This picture scares the shit out of me. Of course being afraid of giant/collossal squid I do my research on them.... so I have seen this picture so many times, and each time I can't look away

This fear is probably one of the top most irrational fears of all times. I mean wtf is it gonna do? Come knock on my door? I dunno

Post by **Arlos** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:28 pm

*Knock* *Knock*

-- "Who's there?"

-- "Land Squid"

-Arlos

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:49 pm

*Knock* *Knock*

-- "Who's there?"

-- "Land Squid"

*pees pants*