Giant Squid off California
Submitted by Tim on Sat, 2009-07-18 16:44
Did anyone else see this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/8155417.stm
Giant squid hassling divers off California. Schools(?) of them up to about 1.5m long and nearly 50kg
mako magic
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seen some docs on foxtel
seen some docs on foxtel from over that way with those big humbolt squid, huse and aggresive, imagine the rings of them, would be like hula hoops lol
bod
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giant squid
just watching these on the 5pm news. They are huge and apparently vicious, although not necessarily to humans. Some scientists are blaming climate change warming up the water off California meaning the squid don't need to return south to find warmer water. Others say they are heading north chasing a depleting food supply.
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I recon that i would ink!!!
I recon that i would ink!!! and they could not see me with all the SHIT in there eyes.LOL..
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Rick
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Big Squid
Seen some footage of guys jigging these with 50lb stand-up gear awesome........
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flangies
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On youtube they have a video
On youtube they have a video of a humbolt attacking another about 1m and killing it while its a on the jig. Then he gaffs it and gets both haha, I reckon that if they were hungry and it got a hold of you, you would be gone for sure
joe amato
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mmmmmmmm calamari
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm calamari lol,i think i woluld s___t myself if one of those giant squid came on board in reality
flangies
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I'd still use 8lb gear =P
I'd still use 8lb gear =P
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makes you wonder about what
makes you wonder about what else is out there
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Paul G
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Might head over for the
Might head over for the weekend grab some fresh bait 4-5 of them would last a while .
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FishoStu
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It certainly does make you
It certainly does make you wonder FF. Some of the doccos they have on foxtel & that sometimes are quite eye opening.
Theres a whole lot of water we havnt even been able to checkout yet & they know stuff finds otherways to flourish without sunlight they have shown that already.
I think we should be spending alot more efforts on our own planet before we go exploring any more of outer space.
Biggo
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I seen a doco on this last
I seen a doco on this last night. They were jigging up these squid off west coast of Mexico. They were about 1m long not including the tentacles. They were using them for bait for bill fish!
Auslobster
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Docos...
...saw a very good David Attenborough one on Nat Geo channel last night...great underwater footage of sailfish/marlin/broadbill, shot in Mexico/Florida/Cuba/Costa Rica/Peru/Ecuador/Great Barrier Reef. The largest black marlin and broadbill swordfish ever caught on rod and reel were taken in the '50's off Peru/northern Chile, now that patch of ocean is almost wiped of gamefish due the heavy commercial hammering on the humboldt squid population.
The story in California is that the squid have more or less taken over and are out-competing the fish...during certain times of the year, all they can catch are squid.
So you have one area where the depletion of the squid is affecting the top end predators, and another area where the proliferation of squid is harming the fish population.
As spectacular as those squid might be, we have to consider the more sinister implications of what's happening in the eastern Pacific.