September 28, 2005

Giant Squid Caught on Camera! At last, proof of the elusive, mysterious, and slightly shy giant squid. Absolute proof that the scurvy sea-dawgs of yesteryear weren't just drunk on grog and high on life!

I'm never going out on the ocean now. That's some creepy stuff.

posted by drivingmenuts 19 years ago
  • Yaaaay! I was having a bad day but squids just make me so happy.
  • Second image only shows one tentacle
  • More, um, squid pictures here Holy squid is right...
  • After a monstrous battle, the squid eventually freed itself, but left behind a giant tentacle on the hook. Uh.. what? What's this about a hook? Were they trying to haul it off to a zoo?
  • what, no video?
  • And in case anyone was wondering about the secret sex lives of squid... Male squid accidentally inseminates himself! It seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask... Not our squid though. Different squid. Spanish squid.
  • Anonymous George: It seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, turned out to be just to much to handle grasp. To make it short: I've self-impregnated myself. And to top it off, said female doesn't want to help with expenses. What do I do..?
  • "Mashed shrimp" my left tentacle! They baited the damn trap with a cheeseburger. What's a squid gonna do? Lets see if those Japanese scientists like it when I use a California roll as "bait".
  • That squid in the photo looks exhausted, as if it had been mailing T-shirts down at the squid post office all day.
  • I'm having trouble reconciling the "size of a bus" quote in the Yahoo link with the images of washed up squid on shores. Mebbe they shrink when they dry up? Or those were just young'uns?
  • If they were going to the trouble of putting a camera down there, you'd think they would have strapped a video camera on there too. It's frustrating to be told that the squid has some hot moves but the existing camera only got snaps every 30 secs. What's with that?
  • Stripe- they're talking about Japanese buses.
  • Perhaps they meant it as a synonym for snappy. I dunno, it sounds right, even though it probably isn't.
  • I reckon I could take one of these mothers. Those tentacles aint so hot.
  • The big giant squid used (most widely) to stay hid from those who'd pull his tentacles off or hand him to the nearest chef.
  • widely = widely *sigh*
  • Ach! No, it doesn't! widely = wisely
  • After failing Cambridge spelling bees The typos tripos was a breeze.
  • hTis si rtue!
  • And you thought we just hung out on simian-oriented Metafilter clones.
  • That is really really cool, but I want the other 498 pictures. Now, dammit!
  • "The hope was that a camera would squirt out the pureed genitals and a passing squid, driven into a sexual frenzy, would then mate with the lens -- a project that, some may be relieved to hear, never came to fruition." Best quote in any article ever...
  • The phrase pureed genitals makes me wince a little.
  • With the powers invested in me by "Bob" and JHVH-1, I hereby declare 9/30 to be Squid Sighting Day. Activities to include quaffing wine (close enough to ink to count) and self-impregnation, or perhaps just a rousing Pin The Phallus On Your Multitenticled Mate.
  • Do you mean 30 / 9, old chap? *adjusts bowler hat over tentacles*
  • warning- while experimenting last night after reading this post- I accidentally impregnated myself. It's Tracy if it's a girl and Squidnunc if a boy.
  • looks like CNN has some video linked from their main page. it's of their coverage, but they do show the still photos in a fast sequence.
  • kitfisto, I´m pretty sure he means 9/30. It´s the proper American way to write it month/day/year, not your stupidly logical day/month/year crap. silly brits with thier logic...
  • *shakes umbrella*
  • er... I think you meant *shakes brolly*
  • Will ye come here and do my bidding? Aw, ferget it -- I was jus' squidding.
  • MonkeyFilter: The phrase pureed genitals makes me wince a little. Thanks Kit Advice from GramMa about fighting squids: Always take a budgie with you. They hate it when their feathers get wet, but they're hell on a cuttle bone. Whips a squid's ass everytime.
  • I only let the certain budgies cuddle my bone.
  • I'll bet your whipped afterwards. Or maybe that's part of the cuddle? Wait, I really DON'T want to know the dirty details. *sticks fingers in ears* lalalalalalala
  • Somebody take that McSweeney's away from Koko.
  • I sent the original link to Mr. Koko, and he's sent me six more already. He's spent all morning reading McSweeney's. I want his job.
  • You know we hate it when you mention him. Let us have our fantasies! Darned great ape!
  • Ah. Kill them all.
  • Another Giant Squid filmed, caught live, but not for long. But a small Giant Squid, a mere seven metres.
  • Light show sex.