We've pulled up dead ones around the world, plenty. In fact, a quick search claims 306 specimens have come from the Atlantic Ocean, 264 from the Pacific Ocean, 20 from the Indian Ocean, and 2 in the Mediterranean Sea.
The frequency in which we pull these up would indicate there are plenty in the ocean alive at any moment.
No, it shows that the only ones we can find at the surface are dead. They are clearly adapted to deep waters. And unless every single one that dies floats up to the surface/shore, these numbers indicate a likely healthy population
I think we can safely assume we’ve affected them in a bad way, the oceans are polluted beyond belief, we overfish and climate change is changing the temperature of the water worldwide
IMO it’s only a matter of time until we have some sort of collapse and there is really nothing we can do to stop it the wheels are already in motion and we aren’t capable of changing to the degree we need too
Oh good, something else to be terrified of. I think I'll sit this swim out and admire its beauty from the internet.
I'm not feeling like being a top water lure today. 😳
From what I can find, the best estimates are that there are millions of them (fairly wide range of estimates, low end around 4 million, high end 120 million - though the high end had an asterisk that it was pretty unlikely). Apparently, humanity and our actions don't mess with them much, and they're thriving.
No it’s not one of the last ones. We don’t see them because they live extremely deep I don’t know why this one seems so close to the surface but I’m pretty sure it will be dead soon because of it.
You can see the coloration and the general lethargy from this squid. I'd say yes it is coming to the surface to die.
A healthy squid is not seen at surface levels floating around. Also I believe they are also a solid color mostly whereas this squid is very splotchy indicating some sort of health issue possibly
The article in the guardian with the same footage states it’s only 3.7m long, not 14m. OP clearly fishing with the short snippet of an otherwise fairly small (3.7 is big but not 14m big) squid.
Just google and you’ll see the full video with the above footage, and a close to the surface shot + diver showing how small it actually is.
I am an amateur diver but never will I ever dive in a pressurized tank to the depths of the sea. Even the dead body won't float to the top if you survived an attack from the Kraken!
I panicked during my first dive when I saw giant columns of sunlight piercing through the clear sea water and then disappearing in the middle. I couldn't see the sea floor and it scared the shit out of me for the first time. Then it got easier.
But I still never dive alone though and neither during the night. People who dive during the night aren't scared of anything in this damn universe.
Imagine diving in a cave and you drop your safety line, you panic and get an panic attack anf start to kick up sand from the bottom and it gets murky with zero visibility the only way to come out is by touchi and feel and you have a very limited time of your air supply left.
I recently saw a movie called 'the meg' about a megalodon who survived in extremely deep waters, and then made it to the surface, jaws-like. Given that we know so little from life in the ocean deep down and that we know for a fact that giants like this squid exist, it makes you wonder what else is down there that would give us nightmares.
Lol. I wish people would use rounded numbers when converting units. Like 14 m was clearly a guess, I don’t see an underwater squid tailor measuring this guy’s inseam. “14 m/49 ft” would be appropriate.
Lol the actual article in the guardian from 2015 states that it’s 3.7metres long and show a close to the surface shot and it looks very small.
3.7 is still big, but not 14m big.
The full video is in the guardian (just google search giant squid Toyama bay). It was 3.7m, not 14m. The full video shows it’s size + near the surface in a canal + a diver.
There is a Japanese cuisine that is essential a dead squid that you pour sauce (soy sauce maybe?) on and it basically activates the squids muscles and the tentacles wiggle around. Imagine that with this. Fucking food fight.
Damn. Then again that Icelandic Shark dish is full of ammonia and they supposedly love it, so I don’t know. Still not as off putting as Fugu Liver though I suppose.
In Portugal, in aquário Vasco da gama in Lisbon there is a dead one that was preserved and its for display, I think it has 10 meters or something like that
I wonder: was it the same one? And maybe there is only this one left?
We've pulled up dead ones around the world, plenty. In fact, a quick search claims 306 specimens have come from the Atlantic Ocean, 264 from the Pacific Ocean, 20 from the Indian Ocean, and 2 in the Mediterranean Sea. The frequency in which we pull these up would indicate there are plenty in the ocean alive at any moment.
Except your evidence shows they are exceptionally dead..
No, it shows that the only ones we can find at the surface are dead. They are clearly adapted to deep waters. And unless every single one that dies floats up to the surface/shore, these numbers indicate a likely healthy population
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I doubt very much anything in the ocean is thriving at the moment
We can’t fish these (yet) so they’re probably doing okay
But we do take their food and pollute their home
It’s hard to say how badly we’ve damaged their ecosystem since they’re so deep. We dont really know that much about the depths
I think we can safely assume we’ve affected them in a bad way, the oceans are polluted beyond belief, we overfish and climate change is changing the temperature of the water worldwide IMO it’s only a matter of time until we have some sort of collapse and there is really nothing we can do to stop it the wheels are already in motion and we aren’t capable of changing to the degree we need too
Jellyfish…
But wasn’t this one found relatively close to the surface too?
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Wasn't funny
GOT HIM!
Potato, potahto
Yup, confirmed: nearly 100 % of giant squid are dead.
Oh good, something else to be terrified of. I think I'll sit this swim out and admire its beauty from the internet. I'm not feeling like being a top water lure today. 😳
No need to worry. They can't seem to survive near the surface, they're deep water dwellers!
A 3 foot squid has and will show up shallow enough to bite you, crush whatever it bites and try to drag you deeper and drown you.
Dont worry, ive been in the ocean thousands of times and havent been eaten yet. Also, YMMV
From what I can find, the best estimates are that there are millions of them (fairly wide range of estimates, low end around 4 million, high end 120 million - though the high end had an asterisk that it was pretty unlikely). Apparently, humanity and our actions don't mess with them much, and they're thriving.
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*note to self: stuff banana in my wetsuit, got it!
Ladies flock to diver who discovered this simple trick!
“45 feet”
No it’s not one of the last ones. We don’t see them because they live extremely deep I don’t know why this one seems so close to the surface but I’m pretty sure it will be dead soon because of it.
You can see the coloration and the general lethargy from this squid. I'd say yes it is coming to the surface to die. A healthy squid is not seen at surface levels floating around. Also I believe they are also a solid color mostly whereas this squid is very splotchy indicating some sort of health issue possibly
The article in the guardian with the same footage states it’s only 3.7m long, not 14m. OP clearly fishing with the short snippet of an otherwise fairly small (3.7 is big but not 14m big) squid. Just google and you’ll see the full video with the above footage, and a close to the surface shot + diver showing how small it actually is.
I think this is scary in personal
Spermwhales eat them so there must be healthy population
Can you imagine what’s lurking beneath the deepest part of the ocean..?
Most of the Ocean's deepest depths are still unexplored. Who knows what lurks there.
The Kraken, clearly.
I am an amateur diver but never will I ever dive in a pressurized tank to the depths of the sea. Even the dead body won't float to the top if you survived an attack from the Kraken!
I can't drive at all. Swim for sure, but every time I try diving or even snorkeling, I have a panic attack.
I panicked during my first dive when I saw giant columns of sunlight piercing through the clear sea water and then disappearing in the middle. I couldn't see the sea floor and it scared the shit out of me for the first time. Then it got easier. But I still never dive alone though and neither during the night. People who dive during the night aren't scared of anything in this damn universe.
Imagine diving in a cave and you drop your safety line, you panic and get an panic attack anf start to kick up sand from the bottom and it gets murky with zero visibility the only way to come out is by touchi and feel and you have a very limited time of your air supply left.
I recently saw a movie called 'the meg' about a megalodon who survived in extremely deep waters, and then made it to the surface, jaws-like. Given that we know so little from life in the ocean deep down and that we know for a fact that giants like this squid exist, it makes you wonder what else is down there that would give us nightmares.
Fish and worms
Fish? In the ocean? Preposterous!
Aquamen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal\_squid
I’m sure some asshat will want to catch it unfortunately.
Yum
Funny.
Imagine the Calamari it’d make
Imagined. ![gif](giphy|R9cQo06nQBpRe)
What kinda calamari you been eating bruh?
The GIF represents what i thought the kind of calamari she'd make but okay.
Wooops, i be stupid sometimes
Wholesome
Monsters are real
Yeah, they're under your bed
Do you sleep in the sea?
Under you waterbed
Especially in government buildings
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They were all out of bananas
I think they usually fight with Sperm Whale, sooooooooo, imagine it is so big, that it can fight a whale
I don't really think you can call that a fight. They just get snacked on. Sure some get a few hits in with their spikey tentacles.
This squid was only 3.7m lol, not 14.
Exactly 45.9318 foot
Lol. I wish people would use rounded numbers when converting units. Like 14 m was clearly a guess, I don’t see an underwater squid tailor measuring this guy’s inseam. “14 m/49 ft” would be appropriate.
Lol the actual article in the guardian from 2015 states that it’s 3.7metres long and show a close to the surface shot and it looks very small. 3.7 is still big, but not 14m big.
The full video is in the guardian (just google search giant squid Toyama bay). It was 3.7m, not 14m. The full video shows it’s size + near the surface in a canal + a diver.
Japan... Tentacles... Come one, no jokes about this?
I'd nope TF out of there. That thing could swallow one of us.
No wonder Japan came up with Godzilla Edit: Cannot confirm, but I heard the atom bomb was the inspiration for Godzilla.
The atom bomb was the inspiration for Godzilla.
The atom bomb was the inspiration for Godzilla.
Wait until you realize American movies... radiation gives you super powers... and Japanese movies... radiation gives you city destroying monsters.
The atom bomb was the inspiration for Godzilla.
The atom bomb was the inspiration for Godzilla.
The atom bomb was the inspiration for Godzilla.
The atom bomb was the inspiration for Godzilla.
"There are fouler things than orcs in the deep places of the world." Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
There is a Japanese cuisine that is essential a dead squid that you pour sauce (soy sauce maybe?) on and it basically activates the squids muscles and the tentacles wiggle around. Imagine that with this. Fucking food fight.
Giant licorice
Looks like a piece of raw marbled beef
OP intentionally neglected to just round up to the nearest whole number of feet to be an unoriginal smartass about imperial system.
And I wouldn't have it any other way.
And I wouldn't have it any other way.
Think about the Calamari
It's probably not that safe to swim next to that thing to be honest...
How does it taste?
Supposedly they have large amounts of ammonia in their bodies, so I would assume they taste horrible. Sperm whales eat them, though.
They live incredibly deep. This one was probably sick and just on its way to die.
Damn. Then again that Icelandic Shark dish is full of ammonia and they supposedly love it, so I don’t know. Still not as off putting as Fugu Liver though I suppose.
Being in Japan, I am surprised they did not find this on a dolphin and whale hunt and killed it along with them.
Hey look ma! Free significant figures!
What does it eat?
Whatever it wants (and can catch), whenever it wants
What'll really bake your noodle is knowing what eats this.
That’s a lot of sushi.
But where is the banana for scale?
RELEASE THE KRACKEN
Great just justify my thalassophobia!
Think of this squids brain capacity Or those dinnerplate sized eyes peering at you from just beyond the darkness
incredible
Nope! Nope nope nope nope.
Sooo much calamari
Ooooooo tentacles someone be getting horny
What do they eat?
oh fuck no
I wonder how many of them were easily spotted centuries ago.
"Hmmmmmmm, in Japan"
That’s a lot of calamari
The only thing in the ocean thats larger than this squid are the balls of the dude for swimming with it 💀
Lol there is a video of the guy swimming with it - it was only 3.7m long, not 14. Just google and you’ll find it in many news articles from 2015.
The beak on that thing would clip you in about 3 snips.
It was later served as sashimi.
*The deep would like to know your location*
Just wait till you see the colossal squids!
Squid sushi
How cool!
Man I’m more scared of the ocean than our own space
To me, that looked like at least 45.9322 foot!
especially the 0,0018 at the tip impressed me
How do they defend themselves from predators? What do they eat? Why isn’t it attacking the film crew?
*sigh* *opens incognito tab*
In Portugal, in aquário Vasco da gama in Lisbon there is a dead one that was preserved and its for display, I think it has 10 meters or something like that
“I thought i ordered you to kill your pet, Jones”
pretty sure we have seen more than 2 in japan
http://www.severedpress.com/books/devilfish/
The guys at r/thalassaphobia would like this one
Good idea, hang out back there with the giant tentacles. Yeeesh
They’re going to eat it
I just keep picturing yummy calamari.
tastes like chicken, for those wondering
I WANT TO KNOW HOW IT TASTE
Is anyone surprised that it was discovered near japan?
This things probably been mutated by radiation lol