# OMG GIANT SQUIDZ **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 22, 2006, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999 "2006-12-22T08:52:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Minglor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/minglor/32/7373_2.png) [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/1 "2006-12-22T08:52:34Z")
Scientists in Japan captured a **24** foot giant squid, and for the first time got the whole event on video. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/22/giant.squid.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/22/giant.squid.ap/index.html) Towards the bottom on the left for the video ---
**Author:** ![layzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/layzie/32/7599_2.png) [@layzie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/layzie)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/2 "2006-12-22T08:54:12Z")
doesnt it say its 24 feet “The squid, which measured about 24-feet long, died while it was being caught” ---
**Author:** ![Minglor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/minglor/32/7373_2.png) [@Minglor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Minglor)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/3 "2006-12-22T08:55:29Z")
> [@layzie](#): > > doesnt it say its 24 feet > > “The squid, which measured about 24-feet long, died while it was being caught” Yes. :banghead: I’ll fix that. ---
**Author:** ![Sc1chik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sc1chik/32/7243_2.png) [@Sc1chik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sc1chik)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/4 "2006-12-22T09:00:59Z")
whoa…crazy. ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 10:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/5 "2006-12-22T10:40:10Z")
Amazing! So cool to see one alive…for a short period. ---
**Author:** ![jeeves744](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeeves744/32/7619_2.png) [@jeeves744](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jeeves744)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 10:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/6 "2006-12-22T10:52:45Z")
not exactly the most interesting video ever. ---
**Author:** ![TgDn32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tgdn32/32/7360_2.png) [@TgDn32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TgDn32)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/7 "2006-12-22T10:56:34Z")
…Yeah? ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/8 "2006-12-22T10:57:56Z")
> [@jeeves744](#): > > not exactly the most interesting video ever. But this has never been on film before. Its kinda like viewing earth from space for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/9 "2006-12-22T11:16:59Z")
> [@jeeves744](#): > > not exactly the most interesting video ever. Maybe someone shoud add some Disturbed to the vid? SIQ ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/10 "2006-12-22T11:35:57Z")
Didn’t someone film the same thing like a year ago. Now it seems like everytime someone films a living squid they claim it is the first. ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 11:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/11 "2006-12-22T11:48:04Z")
Gonna need a lot of butter for all that calamari… ---
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/12 "2006-12-22T11:53:45Z")
![http://www.misterpants.com/01/images/katamari_damacy.jpg](http://www.misterpants.com/01/images/katamari_damacy.jpg) inb4onlyonepersongetsit ---
**Author:** ![j\_espo1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/j_espo1/32/7291_2.png) [@j\_espo1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/j_espo1)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/13 "2006-12-22T11:54:03Z")
The captured squid was caught using a smaller type of squid as bait, and was pulled into a research vessel “after putting up quite a fight,” Kubodera said. “It took two people to pull it in, and they lost it once, which might have caused the injuries that killed it,” he said. The squid, a female, was not fully grown and was relatively small by giant squid standards. The longest one on record is 60 feet, he said. ---
**Author:** ![jeeves744](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeeves744/32/7619_2.png) [@jeeves744](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jeeves744)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/14 "2006-12-22T12:45:53Z")
> [@RobHimself](#): > > But this has never been on film before. Its kinda like viewing earth from space for the first time. Ya i understand that part, but they even said it died while trying to catch it. So at that point in the video the thing is pretty much dead already. It squirt water a couple times with very little force behind it and it moved one tenticle. I can see being impressed if it was actually swimming around, or they got on video it actually attacking the bait or something. ---
**Author:** ![MPD47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mpd47/32/7383_2.png) [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/15 "2006-12-22T13:12:18Z")
Wow. Such interesting creatures, it’ll be cool when they finally grab one alive and can keep it alive. ---
**Author:** ![RedrRocket](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redrrocket/32/7193_2.png) [@RedrRocket](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedrRocket)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/omg-giant-squidz/21999/16 "2006-12-24T13:49:30Z")
dont these fish live in Seriously deep water? where pulling them to the surface would kill them from the pressure change? i believe that is why they havent been studied that much.