Giant Squid caught on film!!!!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9503272/

I am soooo excited!!! I cannot believe they have finally caught one live on film!!!! I've been waiting for this moment since my childhood. I can't wait to see the footage. I hope the next film will be that of a live Tazmanian Tiger (last known live specimen died in a zoo, but there is hopes that some still remain in the remote regions of Tazmania). What a great day!!! ~:)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...uid/index.html
More images!!!

Waiting since you were a child for a giant squid some one must have had quite an apitie

Duuuuuuuude!

~:cheers: :book:

Sydney Morning Herald

Click on the monster of the deep link to see six photos.

Awesome!!

I've been waiting for this as well. I have a long-time fascination with deep-sea creatures...

Hope it's a big 'un!!

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Originally Posted by strike for the south

Waiting since you were a child for a giant squid some one must have had quite an apitie

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LOL, I've been an animal freak my whole life. I have a passion for their well-being and their way of life... ~D

Thats amazing....People have been waiting for this for years...Just amazing.


Now all we need is:

Ras's Fiery Stuffed Peppered Giant squid recipe:

50 kg of rice
2 kg of fresh dill
20 kg of choped tomatoes
7 kg of olive oil
70 onions
salt
pepper


You clean the giant squid and chop the tentacles into little pieces. In a giant frying pan you chaute the onions, and the tentacles, you add the tomato and the dill, bring up to heat and add the rice. You bring back to boil and cook untill the rice is half cooked.

Then you take the body of the giant squid and by using a giant knife you make lines on its surface in a square patern. You dip it in black pepper and shake of the excess one ( if you dont like things spicy then just salt and pepper the giant squid but trust me peppered squid is great ). Stuff the giant squid with the stuffing you just made and close the entrance with a giant toothpick ( you can use a telephone line wooden pole ). Place the giant squid in a giant oven tray and add the remaining of the olive oil and some water. Place in a giant oven and cook until the rice is fully cooked. Make sure you baste the giant squid now and then and that you turn it over once or twice. Dont overcook or it will taste like rubber.

Enjoy with dry white wine and a good greek salad!

when i read the thread title I thought

'wow, they caught a giant squid on film, I usually use a worm and ten pound test line"

ichi ~:cheers:

they said the squid was caught for 4 hours, a pic every 30 seconds.
WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE PICS!!!

AWESOME, btw

:beam: I love squid.

I'm so warm and fuzzy and happy now.

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Originally Posted by rasoforos

Thats amazing....People have been waiting for this for years...Just amazing.


Now all we need is:

Ras's Fiery Stuffed Peppered Giant squid recipe:

50 kg of rice
2 kg of fresh dill
20 kg of choped tomatoes
7 kg of olive oil
70 onions
salt
pepper


You clean the giant squid and chop the tentacles into little pieces. In a giant frying pan you chaute the onions, and the tentacles, you add the tomato and the dill, bring up to heat and add the rice. You bring back to boil and cook untill the rice is half cooked.

Then you take the body of the giant squid and by using a giant knife you make lines on its surface in a square patern. You dip it in black pepper and shake of the excess one ( if you dont like things spicy then just salt and pepper the giant squid but trust me peppered squid is great ). Stuff the giant squid with the stuffing you just made and close the entrance with a giant toothpick ( you can use a telephone line wooden pole ). Place the giant squid in a giant oven tray and add the remaining of the olive oil and some water. Place in a giant oven and cook until the rice is fully cooked. Make sure you baste the giant squid now and then and that you turn it over once or twice. Dont overcook or it will taste like rubber.

Enjoy with dry white wine and a good greek salad!

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LOL!!! ~D
Any good calamari recipes? ~D

i recently saw a fake documentary on PBS in which they speculated about what animals would evolve into in 300 million years from now

one of the creatures was a giant squid who lives in a forest and terrorizes all the creatures of it by walking thru it via using it's tentacles as legs

it was about to eat a baby monkey or something like that, but all the other monkies were pelting it with nuts or something until it let go of the baby monkey

it was an interesting concept except that the CGI looked really fake. anyhow i bet Dave would love that giant forest squid creature ~D

Badass. I always knew gargantuan squid were real. Or...well, I always believed it.

Thanks for sharing. That's a beauty of a beastie. Studying the deep ocean is one of the last frontiers...other than the molten interior.

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You clean the giant squid and chop the tentacles into little pieces...

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Giant squid chopped into little pieces, is that irony? ~:)

Cool stuff- neat to finally see one alive. ~:cool:

That's pretty cool. Reminds me of Walt Disney's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" that I used to watch as a kid. Anybody else remember that movie? A giant squid wrapped around the Nautilus snacking on crewmembers? Pretty good special effects for 19??.

I do feel kind of sorry for the squid... losing part of a tentacle and all.

awesome.

Awesome. So when can we expect to see Nessy?

They had this on tv . On either TLC or Discovery.

I've been waiting for this since I was a kid too. Must have been something about growing up in the 70's, giant squid were my favourite animals. Jacques Costeau documentaries maybe?

Hope they find the Mongolian death worm next.

900 meters !!

Can't be much light down there.....

I want to see a fight between a whale and a giant squid. Apparently, they have found whales with massive scars consistent with squid gripping marks. Now that would be one hell of a fight! Moby vs Slimey! ~:cheers:

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I want to see a fight between a whale and a giant squid. Apparently, they have found whales with massive scars consistent with squid gripping marks. Now that would be one hell of a fight! Moby vs Slimey! ~:cheers:

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Or versus Flipper...

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I want to see a fight between a whale and a giant squid.

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Hard to please, us? It took 30 years and a camera 900 metres down to get the first picture ever and by the same afternoon we're demanding cephalopod death matches.

I don't see why they say modern man has a short attention- Hey, is that a helicopter outside my window?

But would one toxic dart be enought to knock out an 18 m long squid? Might make one of his tenticles a bit numb for a few mins, but Id still put my money on Slimey!

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Originally Posted by English assassin

Hard to please, us? It took 30 years and a camera 900 metres down to get the first picture ever and by the same afternoon we're demanding cephalopod death matches.

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Im not demanding it today! ~:cool:

But if they dont have it on pay per view by this day next week Ill be sorely dissapointed.

*Removes tongue from cheek*

Now, back to your helicopters! ~D

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Originally Posted by _Martyr_

Now, back to your helicopters! ~D

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Black helicopters, eh? I know a conspiracy that - oh look, Spongebob is on..

See folks, that is the effect of the Netherlands' liberal drugs policy! ~D