Architeuthis (Giant Squid) Sightings

[tonmo]

I believe we've seen this before!
Nice to see you back around, btw!!

 

[tonmo]

I am not keen on the treatment, but this vid from Japan is confirmed by Mike Veccione as an Architeuthis specimen:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1354363368316911617

 

[Tintenfisch]

I saw this one on Twitter--hard to know the context. Has anyone heard anything more? Definitely looks like a not-very-well smallish Archi. Wonder what the events were leading up to the footage.

 

[tonmo]

Hi T! If you go to the post (you can click on the Twitter bird logo on the upper-right of the post above), and scroll down, you will see 1) another video of it, and 2) Vecchione's hot take on it -- he says it's Archi, and to your point, not well (..."looks dead" is the exact quote. I wonder where @OB is on this?

 

[OB]

Architeuthis, based on all info this clip gives. I seem to recall footage like this from an A. Dux specimen that eventually ended up dead along a jetty, I can do a quick scan on youtube to see whether or not I might retrieve it

 

[OB]

Tweet says this footage comes from inome harbour, Izumo, haven’t located useful additional info, yet.