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Alexander Remeslo is the copyright owner of this famous photo of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni (Colossal Squid). We've been exchanging emails and he gave me permission to share this photo and also his story - (I've only edited it for grammar per his request; he is from Russia).
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Colossal Squid caught by Soviet trawler in 1981. This specimen, an immature female, was caught at 760 m (2500 feet) in the Antarctic off Dronning Maud Land by the Soviet trawler Evrica in 1981. Photo by Alexander Remeslo (Russia) copyright, all rights reserved.
His story below:
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Colossal Squid caught by Soviet trawler in 1981. This specimen, an immature female, was caught at 760 m (2500 feet) in the Antarctic off Dronning Maud Land by the Soviet trawler Evrica in 1981. Photo by Alexander Remeslo (Russia) copyright, all rights reserved.
His story below:
It was early morning the 3rd of February, 1981, when I was working in Lazarev Sea near Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, on board the Soviet fisheries research vessel 'Evrika'. A fellow scientist rushed into my cabin and pushed me in the ribs, shouting: "Wake up, we caught a giant squid!" With my cameras slung around my neck I ran on deck. There lay a huge reddish brown squid. None of the crew members, several of them sea dogs who had been wandering all over the seven seas, had previously seen something like this.
Fine wet snow fell, the sky and the sea were grey and dreary. Taking photos was difficult because the dull light was not sufficient for the poor-quality film material available in those days, and also I didn't have a tripod. Instead I had to make do with an empty drum of lubricants. In those years, unfortunately, I also had only a little experience as a photographer. To make matters worse, burning with impatience to see the results of my photography, I decided to develop the films immediately on board of the vessel, rather than keeping them for developing in a professional laboratory at home. Therefore the quality of the photos taken that day leaves much to be desired. But the most important thing has been done anyway – to document what was most probably the world's first big specimen of the Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), which was raised from the depths onto the deck of a vessel and not removed from a sperm whale's stomach! Its total length was 5.10 metres, the mantle alone measured 2.42 metres.
The squid was completely intact. Only the leathery maroon skin of the mantle was torn a little in some parts due to the friction of the trawl. Except for a few stones, which confirmed the capture of squid at the very bottom of the ocean, there was nothing else in the trawl. When the squid was caught we were carrying out deep water hydrological readings. These data gave an indication of the squid's habitat. In the bottom layer of the water the temperature was + 0.6° C (salinity 34.75 ‰), whereas on the surface it was only -0.65º C.
After this for 22 years no other huge Mesonychoteuthis was caught. As you know only in spring 2003 the world-wide news wires started buzzing with sensational news: in the Ross Sea, near the coast of Antarctica, again a squid of colossal dimensions had been caught. Its total length was 4.88 m (16 feet), the length of the mantle alone 2.5 m, weight approx. 300 kgs.