Author Topic: First Colossal Squid Caught Off Antarctica (Read 9862 times)

Bloodworth · « **on:** February 23, 2007, 04:53:45 AM »

I didn't even know there was something bigger than the giant squid. This sucker is 33 feet long and 990 LBS.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6385071.stm

EasyCure · « **Reply #1 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:00:12 AM »

did it eat the great fairy

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #2 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:06:31 AM »

I saw that, too. My jaw just dropped when I saw the story. I never thought a whole specimen would turn up in my lifetime. As I recall, mostly all that's been found before is pieces of tentacles in whale stomachs. I think it was just last year that some fishermen hooked one and managed to take some pictures of it before it got away.

Bloodworth, you jerk, I typed this reply originally before you moved the thread to the funhouse, and got a lovely error message for my troubles.

Bloodworth · « **Reply #3 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:19:40 AM »

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I think it was just last year that some fishermen hooked one and managed to take some pictures of it before it got away.

I'm pretty sure that was a giant squid near New Zealand. I watched a program about it on the Discovery Channel.

Sorry for the move. I was inspired at the last second.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #4 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:31:51 AM »

I found the story. It was "just" a giant squid, it happened off the Ogasawara Islands (near Japan), it was a scientific endeavor instead of a fishing boat, and it was more than a year ago.

Even if I'm an idiot, though, it's all still amazing.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #5 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:38:05 AM »

Things like this are nice, because it proves that as much as we know about our world, there's still a lot more we don't know and haven't found... =D

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 23, 2007, 05:39:40 AM »

So they couldn't catch a Giant Sqiud (atleast alive) and decided to one up themselves and go bigger and alive!?

I wonder what else the deep deep sea has hidden down there?

Smoke39 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 23, 2007, 06:41:36 AM »

That thing is creepy. ToT

Kairon · « **Reply #8 on:** February 23, 2007, 06:42:40 AM »

OMFGWTFBBQ

That things big enough to EAT WHALES!!!

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 23, 2007, 06:56:51 AM »

WTF does BBQ mean?
I spend way to much time trying to figure out what it could possibly be an acronym for and I always come up with nothing.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #10 on:** February 23, 2007, 07:02:55 AM »

Barbecue. It's thrown in with all the other TLAs (that's three letter acronyms, and technically a misnomer because few TLAs are acronyms) as a joke, I guess.

Bloodworth · « **Reply #11 on:** February 23, 2007, 07:03:29 AM »

BBQ = Barbecue, it's not a proper acronym, just an abbreviation that somehow came to be.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 23, 2007, 07:10:54 AM »

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Originally posted by: PartyBear
Barbecue. It's thrown in with all the other TLAs (that's three letter acronyms, and technically a misnomer because few TLAs are acronyms) as a joke, I guess.

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
BBQ = Barbecue, it's not a proper acronym, just an abbreviation that somehow came to be.

Ok, just so you know, I knew that BBQ = barbecue. but when paired up with OMG(oh my god) & WTF(what the f***) I just assumed it had to mean somethingelse cause barbecue wouldn't make sense.

Thanks for clearing that up though, cause now I know its thrown in just for the hell of it.

nickmitch · « **Reply #13 on:** February 23, 2007, 07:12:18 AM »

B for "bar", B for "be", and Q because "cue" is pronounced that way, seriously.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #14 on:** February 23, 2007, 07:14:48 AM »

Mmmmm, barbecue squid.

NWR_pap64 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 23, 2007, 07:47:18 AM »

Great, so now Bloodworth is going to force us to use squids on our icons?

Svevan · « **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2007, 08:00:39 AM »

This party hat was hard enough.

UltimatePartyBear · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2007, 08:19:38 AM »

It seems there have been whole specimens obtained before after all. One in 1981, caught by a Russian trawler, and one in 2003, found dead.

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Great, so now Bloodworth is going to force us to use squids on our icons?

I've got mine ready:

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Koekoenutt · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2007, 08:59:00 AM »

It's pretty crazy what people have been finding in the oceans these days. They say we know more about space than we do our own oceans and stuff like that is just pretty crazy to me. Amazing pic too.

This is off the subject a tad bit, but anyone see that prehistorical shark that was video taped a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago, found in Japan's ocean. Thing looked like a mix from a shark and a prehistoric eel. I'll find the video is anyone is interested.

Bloodworth · « **Reply #19 on:** February 23, 2007, 09:00:45 AM »

please do

Rhoq · « **Reply #20 on:** February 23, 2007, 09:11:39 AM »

HERE is the video of the frilled shark that was caught in Japan. Keep in mind that the reason they were able to catch it is because it was ill and near the surface (it usually stays about a mile below). It died a few hours later.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #21 on:** February 23, 2007, 09:21:14 AM »

I really wish we would focus more on ocean exploration than space, we have barely scratched the surface of what is in the ocean.

Koekoenutt · « **Reply #22 on:** February 23, 2007, 09:26:40 AM »

Heh, beat me to it. I was looking on Reuters.com where I originally found it, but their search isn't so great. Definatly would be scary to be right next to the thing. They tried taking it out of the water to study it, but unfortantly died like Rhoq said. Stupidily, I should have looked on YouTube first, because I mean.. who doesn't do that for videos.

Anyways, Here is the News Report about it showing the guy swimming next to it and it out of the water. Was the one I saw on Reuters, though Rhoq's is shorter and the main footage, so nothing really different besides the end when it's laid out and in english.

Kairon · « **Reply #23 on:** February 23, 2007, 10:12:36 AM »

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I really wish we would focus more on ocean exploration than space, we have barely scratched the surface of what is in the ocean.

SeaQuest > Star Trek

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

IceCold · « **Reply #24 on:** February 23, 2007, 10:20:29 AM »

Ahahah, that whale avatar is awesome, PartyBear.

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