Giant Squid captured on film !

[Jaffa]

The Guardian

 

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Legend of the deep

 

Ian Sample

Wednesday September 28, 2005

 

 

Captured on film for the first time in the wild, a giant squid attacks a baited long line off the coast of Japan. Previous specimens have been found either washed ashore or entangled in trawler nets, leaving scientists in the dark about their natural habitats, movements and behaviour.

 

Tsunemi Kubodera, a zoologist at the National Science Museum in Tokyo, located them by tracking sperm whales, regular hunters of giant squid.

 

At each site he dropped a buoy with a 1km-long baited line, fitted with a camera. This shot, taken at a depth of 900 metres, shows an eight-metre long giant squid, according to Proceedings of the Royal Society B today. The images suggest the creature is a more active predator than previously thought. </font><hr />

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Not got the time to upload the photograph atm, but they are amazing

 

More photographs at a japanese site, showing the thing right up at the surface with a great view of its eye :

 

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Cod bait

[RichardB]

Flippin' ell !

I've hooked the odd cuttlefish in my time ...

[Scotty T]

I'm thinking BIG pennel.

 

Scotty

[MJB]

I'm gonna need a shedload more bucktail to try and replicate that!

[Guest CJS2]

Need a bigger freezer, keep me in cod bait for a while.

CJS2

[arthurcodsbody]

That 'ed make a great winter cod bait Never mind bait elastic more like bait rope

[David.W]

I don't even think Davy's skate hooks would be big enough to take that