[Featured]: Architeuthis (Giant Squid) Sightings

[tonmo]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1559495209486106624

 

[tonmo]

From July:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1547073939964592133

 

[GPO87]

I like how casually this guy posts about his boat sometimes pulling up Archi's. Like "Oh darn, there's a kraken on the line again.... sigh... I'll probably miss my bus."

 

[tonmo]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1580710571011280896

This is the giant squid found in the waters of the Canary Islands - Tenerife Weekly News

It is an exceptional find for science and for nature lovers in general: a giant squid (Doge Architeuthis), a kraken of more than three meters in length and around 90 kilos of weight which was found floating about three miles southwest of Tenerifein the marine channel between this island and that...

tenerifeweekly.com

 

[tonmo]

wow!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1590496168534233088

 

[tonmo]

Google Translate: "Giant squid" with a length of 7.8 m Caught off the coast of Okinawa Tarama Island

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1600574119346458630

 

[tonmo]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1608971249035915265

 

[tonmo]

Per Google Translate:

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[Video included] A close-up shot of a giant squid while diving 💥
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The news that an extremely rare creature was found at a diving point in Takeno, Hyogo Prefecture 👀❗️
Its true identity is a giant squid 🦑
The size is ❓ and the appearance when found ❓
Interview with Yosuke Tanaka of "Dive Resort T-style" 🎤

【激レア・動画あり】兵庫県・竹野のダイビングポイントでダイオウイカを激写！

深海に生息し、最大18mにもなるといわれる巨大生物ダイオウイカ。時折海岸に漂着したり、漁師が釣り上げたというニュースは耳にする。しかし、今回はなんとダイビングポイントで遭遇し、しかも撮影に成功したというニュースが飛び込んできた。 場所は兵庫県・竹野。実際に撮影されたダイビングサービス「Dive Resort T-style」の田中…

t.co

h/t @jeffday:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1612114160271106068

 

[tonmo]

@mournblade you had requested more giant cephs; are you following this thread? Lots to consume here in 2023! @OB 👀

A high school student captured a ``giant squid with a total length of over 5m'' and found it weakened in shallow water during a practical class​

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1614011990078541825

高校生が『全長５ｍ超のダイオウイカ』を捕獲　実習の授業中に浅瀬で弱った状態で発見 | MBSニュース

１月１２日、兵庫県香美町で、高校生たちが深海に生息する巨大イカ「ダイオウイカ」を捕まえました。

www.mbs.jp

 

[mournblade]

I am ALWAYS following this thread! Thank you!!!

By-the-way, is Dr. Steve O'Shea still among the living? I haven't seen or heard anything from him in years!

 

[mournblade]

That's what like, now, THREE people who have touched a living Architeuthis. . . and lived?!?

Sorry I don't post here more often. I know jack-s**t about giant (and colossal) squid, but I've been obsessed with them since I was in the first grade circa 1977 or 1978 and found out about them in Collier's Encyclopedia for Kids, specifically volume 5 (which was about animals). I remember this line: "Usually the whale wins and eats the squid!"

Freaking terrified and fascinated me at the same time!

 

[tonmo]

Always great to hear from you! Amazing what a tag (@) can do! I did ping Dr. O... he's around / out / about as far as I know! But we haven't connected in a long while.

 

[tonmo]

Japanese divers shoot rare video of a giant squid swimming along coast​

Japanese divers shoot rare video of a giant squid swimming along coast | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

A couple diving near the Sea of Japan coast have captured rare images of a giant squid.

www3.nhk.or.jp

 

[Steve O'Shea]

I am ALWAYS following this thread! Thank you!!!

By-the-way, is Dr. Steve O'Shea still among the living? I haven't seen or heard anything from him in years!

Every now and again they allow me out of my crypt