Giant Squid Caught on Film 551
caffeined writes "I think almost every geek's heart must skip a beat when they hear about giant squids (think "Jules Verne"). It appears the two Japanese researchers have managed (for the first time) to get actual footage of a live giant squid in action. It was "only" 26 feet long (a little more than 8m) which is big enough for me." Update: Pictures and no registration required at National Geographic.
Pictures (Score:5, Informative)
Re:The Pictures (Score:5, Informative)
squid pic (Score:2, Informative)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9503272/ [msn.com]
Pictures (Score:5, Informative)
Giant Squid happy snaps (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.smh.com.au/media/2005/09/28/1127804509
"only" 8m...thats big (Score:2, Informative)
I have some shocking news for you Mr. Geek (Score:5, Informative)
26 feet = 7.9248 meters
PICTURES (Score:2, Informative)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0
Re:where's the vid (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How long? (Score:2, Informative)
will photos do? (Score:5, Informative)
here... [nationalgeographic.com]
Re:"only" 8m...thats big (Score:2, Informative)
Re:How long? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Too bad (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I just hope.. (Score:2, Informative)
Octopus attacking shark and other videos (Score:5, Informative)
(Sorry, realplayer only.)
(Low Bandwidth)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus/media_play
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus/media_play
WMV of an octopus blending in with its surroundings (which is pretty amazing to watch). http://www.big-boys.com/articles/octopus1.html [big-boys.com]
Re:mmmmm ... rubber (yuck!) (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Fuck You Thomas Patterson! (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.htm [snopes.com]
Status? False.
Re:Now that you mention sperm whales.. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I cant wait for the video release (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Titanic Struggle (Score:3, Informative)
What kills them at the surface is the warmer temperature. Giant Squid blood sucks at carrying oxygen at higher temeratures. If they are too big, they will eventually suffercate in temperate water. The Surface area to volume ratio will only allow the much younger/smaller ones to live near the surface.
Note also that they said the chunk of tentacle that was ripped off the photographed squid was still gripping the boats deck and even fingers when it was prodded.
It could very well be that the Squid seen attached to the Sperm whale was still cold enough to fight (if brought up fast enough) and even as it began to die, it's tentacles would continue holding on for a while.
Re:I cant wait for the video release (Score:3, Informative)
Re:pressure (Score:5, Informative)
Submarines. You can build submarines capable of diving very deep. But those things are
a) made from steel (many times stronger than _any_ glass
b) self supporting (try cracking an egg by pressing on it from the outside, compare to pressure by chicken form inside)
c) go nowhere near "deep water" besides very small ones (which would be a unsuitable size for an aquarium).
Just imagine: a 1000m deep sea aquarium would have a pressure of 1000 metric tons per m^2 on every surface. Thats a stack of 15 fully supplied M1 tanks.
And it scales _baddly_. if you have a cube, and double the side length, you get square the surface, and thus square the force pushing on one side. But the line of material holding the the face in at the edge is only doubling, so you have to double glass thickness, too...
With those forces, you may build a pressure chamber (i.e. massivly externally supported structure with small volume) from glass (although i dont think it will work well), but an aquarium needs support (air/heating/cleaning), and any of those breaks would make the whole thing instable (remember, glass likes to crack).
Re:I cant wait for the video release (Score:2, Informative)
now this will make the sexual movie industry just blush
The male's sexual organ is actually a bit like a high-pressure fire hose and is normally nearly as long as his body - excluding legs and head.
So pr0nowood has a long to go with the genital enhancements.
So you can pretty easilly say that "he is a serious pr*ck!"
sneak/peak preview here (warning, explicit content!) : http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/ops/fm/shellfish/Ima
Pics here (Score:2, Informative)
they actually cut of a tentacle ( last pic )
Re:Skip a beat, eh? (Score:5, Informative)
Yup. The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife [wikipedia.org] done in 1820.
Re:How long? (Score:5, Informative)
Exposure to vaccuum isn't the catastrophic event hollywood makes it out to be.
Re:How long? (Score:5, Informative)
That really depends on what's inside them. Divers survive because they fill their lungs with air at the same pressure as their surroundings. Thus the lungs don't collapse. Of course, if the air inside your lungs is at 1 bar while you're in the deep, bad things happen. But the far more common accident AFAIK is actually the converse: you resurface while your lungs still hold air pressurized for 5, 10, 20 metres. Your lungs get stretched (ie they "explode"), and you're in a world of pain.
The BBC article on the subject has photos... (Score:3, Informative)
you wont get cold... silly, just hot. (Score:5, Informative)
So how are you going to get cold? you wont.
You actually will get HOTTER, because of the HEAT from the sun. You need to cool down, something to
take the heat (kinetic energy) away, and there isnt enough medium to do that. Thats why in cold antarctica you
get cold, because there is a LOT OF AIR that steals your heat. In space, what little atoms there are, - are not enough
to take the heat out. We have had this posting before, a human can survive in space because their skin is strong enough
to keep the inside preasure (just dont have cuts on you). Your eyeballs wont blow up though they
might dry up real real fast - so goggles will be usefull. Dont open your mouth either.
The bright side of you wont heat up that fast, it would be the same as you being on the beach or high altitude skiing. There is a maximum level of heat energy per second delivered, its not like your are at mercuries distance. As I said before , you will
get hot because you wont loose heat thats why you get HOT. Even if you rotate slowly to even out exposure. So ironically, space may be -270c, but you will get damn hot because of the suns photons, so you need to cool yourself somehow using liquid nitro or something. Sure if you stayed in the dark you would slowly cool down, but not over 5minutes.
I mean people dont blow up on mount everest do they, and thats pretty damn low PSI. Your inside PSI isnt that high either, not strong enough to burst you.
Re:where's the vid (Score:1, Informative)
http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye3126582.
Re:How long? (Score:3, Informative)
Architeuthis tentacles aren't "clawed" like others (Score:3, Informative)
Giant squid don't have clawed tentacles. "Colossal squid" do, but architeuthis does not, for whatever reasons.
There are some smaller species that have truly badass claws on there. Humboldt squid -- which we have on camera as they become curious about a diver, grab him, and easily pull him down below dive depth before deciding maybe the wetsuit isn't worth fooling with -- are around 6 feet long, big and muscular, and equipped with some very serious hardware nested in the middle of their suckers.
Humboldts are seriously aggressive hunters with those claws. The usual signs of cephalopod intelligence, though:
http://diver.net/seahunt/fend/f_scottc.htm
Re:WOW. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:How long? (Score:2, Informative)
No, because the blood is still protected by the skin and blood vessel tissue. What actually DID boil away in the incident mentioned was the saliva on the tongue. This loss of moisture would pose a problem in prolonged vacuum exposure without any protection, apart from the lack of oxygen.
Re:WOW. (Score:3, Informative)