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Here is a photo of its beak in a man's hand.
Now word comes that there is something bigger....the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni). One was found floating whole off of Antartica. Its mantle is larger than the giant squid. It was first identified in 1925.
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Here is a photo of its beak in a man's hand.
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Here is a photo of its beak in a man's hand.
del.icio.usEric Denton, the British marine biologist died this week. He did a lot of work in many areas, but one of them is related to our friend the giant Squid:
"For example, in collaboration with M.R. Clarke and J.B. Gilpin-Brown, Denton showed that many squid, including the giant squid Architeuthis, use bags of ammonium chloride rather than the air-filled swim-bladders used by bony fish to regulate their buoyancy."
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"For example, in collaboration with M.R. Clarke and J.B. Gilpin-Brown, Denton showed that many squid, including the giant squid Architeuthis, use bags of ammonium chloride rather than the air-filled swim-bladders used by bony fish to regulate their buoyancy."
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I've been dreaming about building a squid catcher for quite sometime. I think it would need to be:
1. Cheap (why, because I am and you can bet you are going to lose 'em).
2. Able to sense the squid (or other large object)
3. Able to capture some evidence (Camera - still or video)
4. Able to record depth, temperature, etc...
5. Able to surface and send out a beacon of some sort.
I'd love to be able to build 100 of these and drop them off a boat and let them do their polling. After a set amount of time or when their batteries would run out, they would release some gas and float to the surface for collection.<br />
To save money, no tethers would be used. They would be expensive and also would get tangled. Of course, without a tether they would need to get their energy from someplace internal...batteries which would be heavy and a pain to charge.
Re Sensing something, I haven't a clue what would be reasonable. Some sort of sonar, but that would take some significant energy as well I would assume.
The beauty of the Japanese success in filming Giant Squids is the incredible low-tech approach - a hook and line with a camera. The downside is it took 3 years to get the first picture...wow, that is patience.
1. Cheap (why, because I am and you can bet you are going to lose 'em).
2. Able to sense the squid (or other large object)
3. Able to capture some evidence (Camera - still or video)
4. Able to record depth, temperature, etc...
5. Able to surface and send out a beacon of some sort.
I'd love to be able to build 100 of these and drop them off a boat and let them do their polling. After a set amount of time or when their batteries would run out, they would release some gas and float to the surface for collection.<br />
To save money, no tethers would be used. They would be expensive and also would get tangled. Of course, without a tether they would need to get their energy from someplace internal...batteries which would be heavy and a pain to charge.
Re Sensing something, I haven't a clue what would be reasonable. Some sort of sonar, but that would take some significant energy as well I would assume.
The beauty of the Japanese success in filming Giant Squids is the incredible low-tech approach - a hook and line with a camera. The downside is it took 3 years to get the first picture...wow, that is patience.
YES!
Finally someone has caught an adult giant squid on video...alive no less.
The same Japanese researcher who shot still photos the year before had the below amazing success this year. Now only if we didn't have to hook them to get the video...
Copyright: Associated Press/Tsunemi Kubodera
Filmed on December 4, 2006 by researchers from the National Science Museum of Japan led by Tsunemi Kubodera.
Finally someone has caught an adult giant squid on video...alive no less.
The same Japanese researcher who shot still photos the year before had the below amazing success this year. Now only if we didn't have to hook them to get the video...
Copyright: Associated Press/Tsunemi Kubodera
Filmed on December 4, 2006 by researchers from the National Science Museum of Japan led by Tsunemi Kubodera.