Finally! Giant Squid Filmed Alive!

[DeathscytheX 9,732]

http://gizmodo.com/5973909/kraken-filmed-in-the-pacific-for-the-first-time

 

 

This amazing sea creature is an Architeuthis. Or a Kraken, as the ancient vikings used to call it. We knew the kraken wasn't a mythical creature. Giant squids like this have been captured in the past, usually near the sea's surface, but this is the first time one has been filmed alive in the wild, majestically swimming at 2,066 feet underwater. Its silver skin glimmering in the dark under the submersible's lights, looking suspiciously at the sub with its giant black eyes, the sea monster was amazing, according to Tsunemi Kubodera, the mission leader:

 

It was shining and so beautiful. I was so thrilled when I saw it first hand, but I was confident we would because we rigorously researched the areas we might find it, based on past data. Researchers around the world have tried to film giant squid in their natural habitats, but all attempts were in vain before.

 

The giant squid was found in the depths of the Pacific Ocean by a team of three Japanese scientists crammed inside a research submarine for 400 hours and 100 missions. The team located the monster 9.3 miles (15 kilometres) east of Chichi Island, a small archipelago about 150 miles (241.4 kilometers) north of Iwo Jima.

Kubodera was able to find another giant calamari in the past, but that was not an Architeuthis but a Taningia danae. The Taningia—a red beast with eight arms—is quite a bit smaller than the Architeuthis. There's another monster that hasn't been filmed yet, even bigger than the Architeuthis: the Mesonychoteuthis.

The video, filmed in high definition, will be showed by the Discovery Channel soon, in the final episode of Curiosity.

 

Pretty awesome stuff!

[Sledgstone 8,672]

Thats huge! They've been trying to get footage of a giant squid for years. Hopefully they got some good camera angles on it. I'll definitely watch that episode when it comes on.

[Ladywriter 7,783]

it was just a matter of time with all the research goin on out there

 

 

maybe those idiots will actually find a squach

[DeathscytheX 9,732]

They already have right under our noses! He's in those Jack Links commercials!

[Sledgstone 8,672]

it was just a matter of time with all the research goin on out there

 

 

maybe those idiots will actually find a squach

 

I'm sure Bobo will eventually find one... no... no he won't.

 

 

What always kills me is that almost all big foot sightings happen during the day.. so what do these guys do? They dedicate over half their episode to walking around at night shouting big foot calls while other idiots are out there doing big foot calls too.. and they all think big foot is shouting back. Meanwhile, the sasquatches are sleeping and sometimes might throw an occasional rock off in the distance to make them move away from where they are sleeping.

 

 

This commercial kills me:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwj9VEU7YJQ

 

[DeathscytheX 9,732]

What kills me is that anyone would waste their time watching a sci-fi/history/discovery show claiming to have found big foot as if it wouldn't be breaking news on any reputable internet news source or CNN/MSNBC/FNC/ABC/CBS/NBC before it ever was a special on cable television.

[Sledgstone 8,672]

lmao. If anyone was to ever find anything monsterish it would be all over the internet before the episode would ever air. Just like this giant squid. If someone found a live squatch in one of these episodes, we'd all know about it, the footage would be leaked, the guys would be on interviews on major networks, etc.. instead, we hear nothing and we get a series of a bunch of idiots running around with night vision goggles.

 

 

Oh crap! Its a squatch! The squatch hunters should go there and do a night time investigation ASAP!

 

[Pchan 5,162]

Giant, awesome ... can't wait to see the footage. Collossal now would really be something. 

[Sledgstone 8,672]

The giant squid special is on right now on the Discovery channel. Its 2 hours tho.. I think I'll flip back and forth between this and other shows on tonight. I'm expecting all the footage to be shown in the last half hour of the show.

[Pchan 5,162]

Awww shiiiiit! I missed it I think, did they show anything?

[Sledgstone 8,672]

Yep! They caught it on HD video. The footage was of it clamped down onto the food / other dead squid that was attached to the sub while it was eating it. You couldn't see it taking bites or anything, but you could see it hovering there in the water and they got some good close ups of it.

[Pchan 5,162]

AWWWWW SNAP! I'm hoping there's a good HD video rip of it soon on YT.

[Sledgstone 8,672]

I looked for it last night on youtube and couldn't find it. If you see the 2 hour special re-airing on the channel, watch the last 15 to 20 minutes of it to see where the sub was at, how they were attracting it in, and then all the HD footage. The footage itself was only about 8 minutes long I think.