[News]: Catch of the day: Rare tentacle - KSBY

[octobot]

Catch of the day: Rare tentacle
[SIZE=-1]KSBY, CA - 40 minutes ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]A fisherman snags a rare catch in the Santa Barbara Channel, a tentacle belonging to a giant squid. The 13-foot-long tentacle was ... [/SIZE]


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[Tintenfisch]

Oooh, that's Moroteuthis robusta territory... but I suppose it would have mentioned hooks if it had 'em. Dang.

 

[monty]

Architeuthis tentacle found floating off of central California

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/15287236.htm

Eric Hochberg was on the news showing this off to reporters, too.

 

[OB]

Way cool

 

[erich orser]

That's always encouraging. Awesome. I love the Central Coast. Squid country.

 

[CapnNemo]

"The tentacle, reaching about 13 feet, was about the diameter of a broomstick "

If a London routemaster bus is the standard unit of measurement for length then surely the 'broomstick' must now be the standard unit for diameter? What say you?

 

[erich orser]

I agree! Although what I'm hoping for is "Fire Hose".

 

[OB]

Coastal redwood

 

[monty]

Oooh, that's Moroteuthis robusta territory... but I suppose it would have mentioned hooks if it had 'em. Dang.

There was a lot of footage of the club being inspected by Dr. Hochberg on KCAL9, and it looked pretty "classic architeuthis" to my untrained eye. I didn't record it, though, I'm afraid.

http://cbs2.com/video/[email protected]
http://cbs2.com/video/[email protected]

are the clips. The first one has Dr. Hochberg say "architeuthis" specifically, so I'm afraid you're out of luck in that regard, Kat...

 

[chrono_war01]

Looks like a archi to me.

[Although I do hope it's something much more sensational..like..Moro-Archi!]

 

[Steve O'Shea]

Tiz GS. Interesting reference to orca having (possibly) eaten the beast; this is not something we would expect, at least in these (southern) parts (where they eat mainly coastal/shallow water species of fish and ray).

 

[chrono_war01]

perhaps a dying squid floating to the surface?

 

[monty]

Tiz GS. Interesting reference to orca having (possibly) eaten the beast; this is not something we would expect, at least in these (southern) parts (where they eat mainly coastal/shallow water species of fish and ray).

Is it generally easy to tell from a severed squid-part when it was chomped by a toothed whale vs removed by some other cause? Of course, I can't think of many things that would remove parts of a giant squid that aren't toothed whales, except perhaps it trying to attack the tail end of a submarine...

I didn't think Orcas (or Sperm Whales) were common off central California anyway; there are dolphins, and baleen whales like humpbacks and grays, but those are the only cetaceans I've heard of around California...

 

[erich orser]

There's an active pod in Monterey Bay and along the Big Sur coast that hangs out there to attack migrating baleen whales and take their young.

 

[chrono_war01]

If memory serves right, there was a NG program on how they found that one sort of orcas would eat fish and the seals and whales don't mind their presence. And then another group arrived which had a variation during the clicks and squeels during communitcating. It was found that the new group did not eat fish but mostly hunted marine mammals....