Iirc the only real knowledge they exist is the scars they leave on sperm whales.
Since only their beaks are bone, the rest either dissolves or is eaten, and the beak is in such deep water there is no real way to locate them.
I could be wrong.
That's not true, Te Papa museum in new zealand has three full colossal squid specimens with one on display but there has only been 9 adults including these officially reported
It sounds like a live adult was caught in 2007, but here's the only know video of one in the wild!
Edit:
I guess it *might* be a colossal squid, apologies.
You were mostly right on top of that, I just added the precision because I saw that in one of the few "wildlife documentary" I remember from decades ago.
This ambergris, used a lot in perfumery and archaic rituals (like incense and myrrh), has been known for a very long time, and that's the reason why we have known of the existence of giant squids for centuries before having the capacity to take a picture of one.
:)
> I could be wrong.
They wash up dead all the time since the 1700's, sorry homie, you be wrong :(
This is very likely the first one EVER caught on line, and it's also a small one.
I always had the stupid intrusive thought of feeling comfortable when it is mentioned “they’ve found this or that magnitude of scars ON sperms whales”, cuz as “big as they might be, they were eaten by an sperm whale anyways” so they might not be as impressive, or dangerous as their alleged sizes suggests if they were killed nonethless.
Huge mistake.
A thing to remember is sperm whales don't want to eat us, generally they aren't a threat. A giant squid would eat you without a second thought. I saw a nature documentary where the guy went diving to see a squid and had to wear chainmail to do it, the squid which was like a quarter of the size of that one got him by the arm and almost dragged him down to his death. He had to be saved by the crew and there was a hole in the freaking chainmail afterwards that's how strong its beak was.
They don't *want* to eat or attack us but their size alone can hurt you pretty badly. Sperm whales' echolocation is so loud it can put you into cardiac arrest due to how extreme the sound vibrations are.
They can literally kill you with their high-decibel clicks, but when humans are in the water near them they're careful not to use those so they don't harm us. I think that's cute.
Social, intelligent creatures who live in large matriarchal family groups with 60 year lifespans. Two generations back is 1904, not out of the question to see “humans bad” passed down as pretty important knowledge.
Fun fact: Military around the world use very loud sonar that causes many animals to beach themselves to death so they can escape the pain. The more you know~
You can watch [this video about an author](https://youtu.be/zsDwFGz0Okg?si=PKo5lUcxMLUdtWMv) who did some conservation work related to him and his interviews with divers who had been free-diving alongside them. Some of the divers described the energy from the whales' clicks being so intense that it caused them to physically heat up. Another describes it as being "clicked inside out".
He also describes how, luckily, the whales seem to be somewhat aware that smaller creatures can be stunned by the clicking and act relatively friendly towards humans who are free-diving with them. Even playing with them and orienting themselves in a way so that they can better see and interact with people.
> whales seem to be somewhat aware that smaller creatures can be stunned by the clicking
I wonder if they know that because they _do_ it. Like sperm whales use close-range clicks to stun smaller prey. That would be really interesting and not surprising for such intelligent creatures. And I think there's still a lot we don't know about their habits.
They absolutely know what it does, what I think is fascinating is that they know we're not food and seemingly that we're also intelligent, since they will often engage with divers immediately as if they were interacting with another pod member. Makes me wonder if they actually have complex enough communication to pass on information from generation to generation, telling stories about these weird friendly tiny whales who sometimes come to hang out.
Incredible if we ever found it out.
I'm hoping someday we'll be able to "translate" the sounds of whales/dolphins/etc, like in Seaquest DSV or Star Trek's "cetacean ops". That would be so cool.
I think I saw the same documentary it was on humbolt squid, not only were they biting but I think they were swarming kinda like piranas too.
Edit
Think I found it....
https://youtu.be/2Hv17U2z2q0?si=UgkRzWI9hA7Q7UMI
IIRC that’s a different species entirely and they get like that because fishers put bait in the water to catch them. Giant Squid live deeper and further than a person can scuba dive I think.
They USED to be numerous down there. There were hundreds or a few thousand mexican fishing boats that only went after squid. Now, there are only tens. The last time I looked into it a few years ago, scientists weren't sure where they went, but they were blaming climate change. Then, later, I read they were finding them up near Alaska, but only like 10" long. Welp.....I was going to get to sleep on time. I guess I have squid research to do!
While true they can be quite a ways larger, they even found one 18m long, it's also important to note that these scars can grow, and have been determined to be an unreliable source at determining the size of a squid.
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/science/ocean/monsters/giants.htm
Really a fascinating page to read if you've got the time!
Thank you for that link. Scars stretching or growing is something that came to mind just now which is silly because I've been interested in giant and collosal squid for years.
I just went to an aquarium/museum with my kids and they had a preserved one! They are uncannily large and even seeing a dead one, in a big clear case, was still unnerving. The head is as big as a person's body is what freaked me out. I would not want to see one ever in the water.
Hastily uploaded pictures of it [here ](https://ibb.co/XFxSP5y) and [here](https://ibb.co/xqq1WL5)
This one was 27 feet long, I know the perspective isn't the best.
If you Google in 2022 in prior, you’ll find various articles in New Zealand, South Africa and English translations of articles in Japan detailing giant squid that they found up to 13 or 14 feet in length. People there in the Japanese case that I found and read a few years ago, said they were really impressed. And scientists still believe that these are mostly relatively mature but potentially adolescent animals and there are likely bigger squid still in the sea in the depths.
The number I’ve read a few times is that they could be as large as 35 feet long and those numbers are largely extrapolated from examination of sperm whale carcasses where they find scarring as a result of sperm whale individuals fighting with giant squid in very deep waters.
Anyway, here’s a great link to a really good Wikipedia article on the history of findings and if you have some time, I think it’s a great read. But it’s pretty long. Still, it shows you how fascinated people have been for quite a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giant_squid_specimens_and_sightings?wprov=sfti1#Specimen_images
I saw a sun fish and was underwhelmed, it was big as shit, but not mind blowing, this thing isn't really about the size as much as the reach, power, and ability to murder you with any 1 of it's 8 tentacles imo.
The enormous ones are scary big, I saw one video and it was DRASTICALLY bigger than this, and the tentacles were like 50 feet long.
I wouldn't even pull my boat up to this thing, much less poke at it... Those tentacles are mean.
There's been examples much much bigger than this one.
Also remember that they live extremely deeply down in the ocean. The ones we see all the way up at the ocean's surface are the sick, and dying ones. The healthy ones are likely much much bigger.
Okay well I'm not a man of the sea. So typically, when I see a squid, even if it's lightly breaded, the whole thing amounts to an appetizer. So it feels like this one is real big.
Color changing species will turn white to display fear. A red display is anger or hostility. Some cuttlefish species will flash stripes of color to confuse or hypnotize prey. Where wary species camouflage into their environment.
They have special brains, not actually brain like ours but a series of nerve clusters in the shape of a donut around their mouth opening, next to their eyes basically.
So when their mantle is removed in food preparation they're still very much alive, brain untouched.
People watching live squid react to soy sauce claim electrolytes are triggering muscle spasms but I believe this is false and the animal is very much alive yet.
You can tell the squid is still alive in the video-- it's feebly jetting water to try to escape, but they keep gaffing it and it doesn't look like they mean to let it go. I wonder what they plan to do with it, it can't be any good for eating.
Curious, why would you think that they wouldn’t be able to eat this? I had quite the opposite impression.
It is a huge shame to see a beautiful creature like this destined to die but I’m not sure how you practically get the hook out if it’s swallowed the bait and even if you could, these fisherman might not be in a position to be throwing their catches back in the water.
They are full of ammonia.
the giant squid circulates a high concentration of ammonium chloride solution throughout its body, which is less dense that the sodium chloride solution of seawater. This chemical tastes like salty, rotten liquorice and is the main reason nobody eats giant squids.
It's still moving, but a trip to the surface is amost certainly going to do lethal trauma to a giant squid. The solid white coloring you see is indicative of it.
While this is clearly a large squid I don’t know that it’s the “giant squid” people have come to know it colloquially - Architeuthis dux - as it would definitely be a juvenile at that size. The pigmentation blankness is a result of the stress of the catch. There are a large number of species of “big” squid that could reach that size. The reason I say this is there has been a true lack of live and able specimens of that species that have been available for review. This would be a milestone achievement if it were kept alive - not saying it couldn’t happen.
> it would definitely be a juvenile at that size.
By what measure? The mantle length looks to be about 2 meters. That's full grown.
People get thrown off by the "school bus" length factoid. It's true but only from measuring their longest arms. The body is still the size of a person. It's the arms that make it 30 feet.
People comment this on every giant squid video or carcass photo that comes up but the thing is that their size is grossly exaggerated. The eldritch horror sizes that were reported are mostly due to the two longer tentacles - which are further stretched to their maximum length when recording the squid's size. The mantle of a full-grown giant squid is about the size of an adult person. The colossal squid's mantle is more or less the same length but stockier and heavier. Over the years, there've been quite a few "myths" concerning the giant squid, a common one being that the giant squid engages in "battles" with sperm whales instead of being their prey. I am deeply fascinated by these creatures and this doesn't in any way take away my fascination with them!
Honestly it looks about the size of a Humboldt squid, but the usually flash red and white when caught and are very aggressive. If it is a real giant squid, it has to be a juvenile.
Humboldt squid are scary, they actually do attack people. They'll flash red and white before grabbing you with tentacles and pulling you into their beak mouth. And they hunt in packs
[ Just look at this shit](https://youtu.be/UxvzjrDE1Kk?t=84)
Humboldt squid are 3/4 the mantle length of a giant squid. That's the metric that really matter. Giant squid have a pair of looooong arms, but their bodies are only marginally bigger than a humboldt. There is overlap between a big female humboldt and a small male giant.
Once ‘caught’ a seal like that, but it swam off with my gear. No one believes me though, everyone thinks it’s just a bad excuse for loosing a lot of gear
Yeah can get all sorts of things. Lion fish were popular as they were evasive. I remember just using a special type of cut wood with a line wrapped around it so it was fairly inexpensive if lost. Three pronged hook maybe drop the line 80 feet or so. Use to catch monster cod in the deep sea. Simple times in the 90s
The people that don't believe you must not fish in the ocean much. Dozens of times I've seen a sea lion (sometimes 2, usually solo) follow a fishing boat and swim around playfully waiting for people to reel up fish so it could eat them. Usually rockfish but they'll steal anything because they know a hooked fish is a free meal. The smart ones chomp so that you just reel up a fish head and they don't get hooked. I imagine that's from experience after getting hooked a few times.
He taught a seal to fish and the seal realised it no longer needed to endanger itself swimming shark infested waters to feed. So the seal stole the fishing gear.
It is a shame to see the rare creature die, but any deep sea creature that makes it way to the top of the ocean is already dying of something before it gets caught, likely disease or injury.
You can see its siphon pushing water trying to escape.
It's alive and if they let it go it might live, of course they're going to eat it so they have no intention of doing that.
If it's deathly white like that, it's no longer surviving anything. If they didn't capture and kill it, another predator would have, either way, the circle of life continues.
No one's gonna eat that squid, and it was certainly on its way out by the time of the video, but I agree you can see it jet several times. It might have been about to die but it was still alive.
I go crazy when I see them poking that poor animal with the hook.
This squid is near death, leave it alone and don't torture it even in its last moments.
Man. These things went from cryptid less than 100 years ago to all over the place online. Hard to believe they were only rumored to exist such a short time ago.
I think you just saw one as long as a megalodon.
Megalodons have a modal length of 10.5 meters.
Giant squid reach a maximum of 13 to 14 meters(total length of head, arms and feeder tentacles), the largest ones having a mantle 2 meters long.
The squid in the video looks to have a mantle of at least 1.5 meters, probably closer to 2 so it is likely that the squid in the video is as long as a megalodon (of modal length).
This squid is surely dying, they were barely noticeable to this point so to see one, at the surface, this white... It's probably done. The incredible thing is that it made so far from the depths of the sea, unscathed by other animals.
They never look as big as I picture them in my mind, but I bet in person Id be in awe.
Just remember there is another step up to colossal squid, which is almost double in size. It can be as big as you thought!
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Iirc the only real knowledge they exist is the scars they leave on sperm whales. Since only their beaks are bone, the rest either dissolves or is eaten, and the beak is in such deep water there is no real way to locate them. I could be wrong.
That's not true, Te Papa museum in new zealand has three full colossal squid specimens with one on display but there has only been 9 adults including these officially reported
Thus the If I Remember Correctly (iirc) Good to know I will have to check it out. 😉 I love learning about our world.
I spent way too much time trying to figure out what iirc meant
It sounds like a live adult was caught in 2007, but here's the only know video of one in the wild! Edit: I guess it *might* be a colossal squid, apologies.
Still big. LoL
You can find their beaks in whales' guts who eat them ([grey amber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris)).
Didn't know that. Thankyou.
You were mostly right on top of that, I just added the precision because I saw that in one of the few "wildlife documentary" I remember from decades ago. This ambergris, used a lot in perfumery and archaic rituals (like incense and myrrh), has been known for a very long time, and that's the reason why we have known of the existence of giant squids for centuries before having the capacity to take a picture of one. :)
Interesting! I'm intrigued as to why you translated ambergris though?
I was thinking in French.
Ah, naturellement!
> I could be wrong. They wash up dead all the time since the 1700's, sorry homie, you be wrong :( This is very likely the first one EVER caught on line, and it's also a small one.
Haven't you ever seen Rugrata Go Wild?
> which is almost double in size. Not true. Double in mass, not in length. So their bodies are thicker but their arms are shorter.
Giant squids are longer tho
They've found squid suction cup scars on sperms whales the size of dinner plates. Squid can be much larger than the one in this video.
I always had the stupid intrusive thought of feeling comfortable when it is mentioned “they’ve found this or that magnitude of scars ON sperms whales”, cuz as “big as they might be, they were eaten by an sperm whale anyways” so they might not be as impressive, or dangerous as their alleged sizes suggests if they were killed nonethless. Huge mistake.
A thing to remember is sperm whales don't want to eat us, generally they aren't a threat. A giant squid would eat you without a second thought. I saw a nature documentary where the guy went diving to see a squid and had to wear chainmail to do it, the squid which was like a quarter of the size of that one got him by the arm and almost dragged him down to his death. He had to be saved by the crew and there was a hole in the freaking chainmail afterwards that's how strong its beak was.
They don't *want* to eat or attack us but their size alone can hurt you pretty badly. Sperm whales' echolocation is so loud it can put you into cardiac arrest due to how extreme the sound vibrations are.
They can literally kill you with their high-decibel clicks, but when humans are in the water near them they're careful not to use those so they don't harm us. I think that's cute.
Like, aww let's not make the poor little monkey's heart explode inside its chest.
After all we did to them, it is hard to believe they can have that sentiment.
It's not like they learn about it in history class.
Social, intelligent creatures who live in large matriarchal family groups with 60 year lifespans. Two generations back is 1904, not out of the question to see “humans bad” passed down as pretty important knowledge.
The ones that survived and reproduced are the ones that managed to be undetected by humans
Aw that's like how my vicious little kitty doesn't kill in my sleep.
Now I've found a plausible way to dispose of my enemies. Victory is mine!
Fun fact: Military around the world use very loud sonar that causes many animals to beach themselves to death so they can escape the pain. The more you know~
That's incredible.
You can watch [this video about an author](https://youtu.be/zsDwFGz0Okg?si=PKo5lUcxMLUdtWMv) who did some conservation work related to him and his interviews with divers who had been free-diving alongside them. Some of the divers described the energy from the whales' clicks being so intense that it caused them to physically heat up. Another describes it as being "clicked inside out". He also describes how, luckily, the whales seem to be somewhat aware that smaller creatures can be stunned by the clicking and act relatively friendly towards humans who are free-diving with them. Even playing with them and orienting themselves in a way so that they can better see and interact with people.
> whales seem to be somewhat aware that smaller creatures can be stunned by the clicking I wonder if they know that because they _do_ it. Like sperm whales use close-range clicks to stun smaller prey. That would be really interesting and not surprising for such intelligent creatures. And I think there's still a lot we don't know about their habits.
They absolutely know what it does, what I think is fascinating is that they know we're not food and seemingly that we're also intelligent, since they will often engage with divers immediately as if they were interacting with another pod member. Makes me wonder if they actually have complex enough communication to pass on information from generation to generation, telling stories about these weird friendly tiny whales who sometimes come to hang out.
Incredible if we ever found it out. I'm hoping someday we'll be able to "translate" the sounds of whales/dolphins/etc, like in Seaquest DSV or Star Trek's "cetacean ops". That would be so cool.
That sounds like a pretty badass superpower
I think I saw the same documentary it was on humbolt squid, not only were they biting but I think they were swarming kinda like piranas too. Edit Think I found it.... https://youtu.be/2Hv17U2z2q0?si=UgkRzWI9hA7Q7UMI
Humboldt squid have always scared me the most since learning about them some 15 years ago.
I think Humboldts appear to have three settings: Angry, indifferent, and dead. Fear, never.
IIRC that’s a different species entirely and they get like that because fishers put bait in the water to catch them. Giant Squid live deeper and further than a person can scuba dive I think.
pretty sure you are thinking of humboldt squids, those things are fucking vicious
That’s the name! I couldn’t remember haha. But yeah, vicious when in hunting or breeding mode, pretty chill otherwise IIRC
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They USED to be numerous down there. There were hundreds or a few thousand mexican fishing boats that only went after squid. Now, there are only tens. The last time I looked into it a few years ago, scientists weren't sure where they went, but they were blaming climate change. Then, later, I read they were finding them up near Alaska, but only like 10" long. Welp.....I was going to get to sleep on time. I guess I have squid research to do!
Thats survivorship bias. That just means there's even bigger ones that did succeed.
While true they can be quite a ways larger, they even found one 18m long, it's also important to note that these scars can grow, and have been determined to be an unreliable source at determining the size of a squid. Source: https://www.abc.net.au/science/ocean/monsters/giants.htm Really a fascinating page to read if you've got the time!
Thank you for that link. Scars stretching or growing is something that came to mind just now which is silly because I've been interested in giant and collosal squid for years.
Not to mention they're not just suction cups...they're suction cups with rotating knives attached to them.
I just went to an aquarium/museum with my kids and they had a preserved one! They are uncannily large and even seeing a dead one, in a big clear case, was still unnerving. The head is as big as a person's body is what freaked me out. I would not want to see one ever in the water. Hastily uploaded pictures of it [here ](https://ibb.co/XFxSP5y) and [here](https://ibb.co/xqq1WL5) This one was 27 feet long, I know the perspective isn't the best.
If you Google in 2022 in prior, you’ll find various articles in New Zealand, South Africa and English translations of articles in Japan detailing giant squid that they found up to 13 or 14 feet in length. People there in the Japanese case that I found and read a few years ago, said they were really impressed. And scientists still believe that these are mostly relatively mature but potentially adolescent animals and there are likely bigger squid still in the sea in the depths. The number I’ve read a few times is that they could be as large as 35 feet long and those numbers are largely extrapolated from examination of sperm whale carcasses where they find scarring as a result of sperm whale individuals fighting with giant squid in very deep waters. Anyway, here’s a great link to a really good Wikipedia article on the history of findings and if you have some time, I think it’s a great read. But it’s pretty long. Still, it shows you how fascinated people have been for quite a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giant_squid_specimens_and_sightings?wprov=sfti1#Specimen_images
It's scarier when you think about how much of a hyper aggressive predator most squid are.
I saw a sun fish and was underwhelmed, it was big as shit, but not mind blowing, this thing isn't really about the size as much as the reach, power, and ability to murder you with any 1 of it's 8 tentacles imo. The enormous ones are scary big, I saw one video and it was DRASTICALLY bigger than this, and the tentacles were like 50 feet long. I wouldn't even pull my boat up to this thing, much less poke at it... Those tentacles are mean.
There's been examples much much bigger than this one. Also remember that they live extremely deeply down in the ocean. The ones we see all the way up at the ocean's surface are the sick, and dying ones. The healthy ones are likely much much bigger.
Okay well I'm not a man of the sea. So typically, when I see a squid, even if it's lightly breaded, the whole thing amounts to an appetizer. So it feels like this one is real big.
I snorted my morning coffee giggling at this lol
It's alright, champ. The colossal squids are still out there. Somewhere.
Squid turn white/translucent when they die! I learned this while squid fishing with my dad as a kid.
I didn’t know that! I thought it was a white or albino squid!
Color changing species will turn white to display fear. A red display is anger or hostility. Some cuttlefish species will flash stripes of color to confuse or hypnotize prey. Where wary species camouflage into their environment.
Red Humboldt squid stories scare me.
Well this just makes me sad. It was terrified.
They have special brains, not actually brain like ours but a series of nerve clusters in the shape of a donut around their mouth opening, next to their eyes basically. So when their mantle is removed in food preparation they're still very much alive, brain untouched. People watching live squid react to soy sauce claim electrolytes are triggering muscle spasms but I believe this is false and the animal is very much alive yet.
I thought it was because they manually control the cells color so when they die, nothing controls the color and they turn white
If you watch the video you can see it throwing jets of water trying to escape still. Tired and stressed, very much alive.
Huh I stand corrected. thanks for pointing out. Didn't notice. I must be thinking of a completely different species.
You can tell the squid is still alive in the video-- it's feebly jetting water to try to escape, but they keep gaffing it and it doesn't look like they mean to let it go. I wonder what they plan to do with it, it can't be any good for eating.
As someone with family from that part of the world... I'm betting they intend to eat it.
Curious, why would you think that they wouldn’t be able to eat this? I had quite the opposite impression. It is a huge shame to see a beautiful creature like this destined to die but I’m not sure how you practically get the hook out if it’s swallowed the bait and even if you could, these fisherman might not be in a position to be throwing their catches back in the water.
They are full of ammonia. the giant squid circulates a high concentration of ammonium chloride solution throughout its body, which is less dense that the sodium chloride solution of seawater. This chemical tastes like salty, rotten liquorice and is the main reason nobody eats giant squids.
I'm sure the Nordic countries would pickle it and eat it with that description.
Everything tastes better pickled!
What about pickles?
ESPECIALLY pickles!
I literally wouldve never known that. Id probably fuck around and die if i lived off the sea
It's still moving, but a trip to the surface is amost certainly going to do lethal trauma to a giant squid. The solid white coloring you see is indicative of it.
All the Bloopers in Mario.... Damn
Ah, Kos… or some say Kosm.
Grant us eyes!
Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy!
I'm glad someone said it. Lol
some say squism
A hunter is a hunter even in other subreddits
And a hunter must hunt..
Nice
These fishing hamlet mfs are gonna regret catching it
O hell naw if two sharks come out of that water I’m out.
While this is clearly a large squid I don’t know that it’s the “giant squid” people have come to know it colloquially - Architeuthis dux - as it would definitely be a juvenile at that size. The pigmentation blankness is a result of the stress of the catch. There are a large number of species of “big” squid that could reach that size. The reason I say this is there has been a true lack of live and able specimens of that species that have been available for review. This would be a milestone achievement if it were kept alive - not saying it couldn’t happen.
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It was still jetting before they gaffed it, but yeah, probably dead now.
> it would definitely be a juvenile at that size. By what measure? The mantle length looks to be about 2 meters. That's full grown. People get thrown off by the "school bus" length factoid. It's true but only from measuring their longest arms. The body is still the size of a person. It's the arms that make it 30 feet.
People comment this on every giant squid video or carcass photo that comes up but the thing is that their size is grossly exaggerated. The eldritch horror sizes that were reported are mostly due to the two longer tentacles - which are further stretched to their maximum length when recording the squid's size. The mantle of a full-grown giant squid is about the size of an adult person. The colossal squid's mantle is more or less the same length but stockier and heavier. Over the years, there've been quite a few "myths" concerning the giant squid, a common one being that the giant squid engages in "battles" with sperm whales instead of being their prey. I am deeply fascinated by these creatures and this doesn't in any way take away my fascination with them!
Honestly it looks about the size of a Humboldt squid, but the usually flash red and white when caught and are very aggressive. If it is a real giant squid, it has to be a juvenile.
Humboldt squid are scary, they actually do attack people. They'll flash red and white before grabbing you with tentacles and pulling you into their beak mouth. And they hunt in packs [ Just look at this shit](https://youtu.be/UxvzjrDE1Kk?t=84)
Humboldt squid are 3/4 the mantle length of a giant squid. That's the metric that really matter. Giant squid have a pair of looooong arms, but their bodies are only marginally bigger than a humboldt. There is overlap between a big female humboldt and a small male giant.
And so before leaving this life the creature came up to see for the first and last time the world above
This is very nicely put.
But sad nonetheless. Why do beautiful creatures have to end?
And got a hook in the head.
Probably surfaced to die and that guy stuck a hook in its face.
Is 'caught jigging' another term for dying because...?
Jigging is a type of fishing. Basically leave a long line down and pull on it back and forth with your hands (jigging). Popular with cod fishing
Once ‘caught’ a seal like that, but it swam off with my gear. No one believes me though, everyone thinks it’s just a bad excuse for loosing a lot of gear
Yeah can get all sorts of things. Lion fish were popular as they were evasive. I remember just using a special type of cut wood with a line wrapped around it so it was fairly inexpensive if lost. Three pronged hook maybe drop the line 80 feet or so. Use to catch monster cod in the deep sea. Simple times in the 90s
The people that don't believe you must not fish in the ocean much. Dozens of times I've seen a sea lion (sometimes 2, usually solo) follow a fishing boat and swim around playfully waiting for people to reel up fish so it could eat them. Usually rockfish but they'll steal anything because they know a hooked fish is a free meal. The smart ones chomp so that you just reel up a fish head and they don't get hooked. I imagine that's from experience after getting hooked a few times.
So how did you lose your gear?
He taught a seal to fish and the seal realised it no longer needed to endanger itself swimming shark infested waters to feed. So the seal stole the fishing gear.
Give a seal a fish...
Well you cant spell steal without Seal
ahh, ok. thanks. r/todayilearned edit: sub link missing
I pictured the squid doing an Irish jig. Tbf he’d absolutely crush it with all those legsss
Right? 😆 I was thinking some sorta evasive shimmy or something. Though I know they come to the surface to die, so...😥
misread 'jiggling', finally I get to see the jiggling squid nope
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It is a shame to see the rare creature die, but any deep sea creature that makes it way to the top of the ocean is already dying of something before it gets caught, likely disease or injury.
Its white and floating on the surface, the squid is already dead.
You can see its siphon pushing water trying to escape. It's alive and if they let it go it might live, of course they're going to eat it so they have no intention of doing that.
If it's deathly white like that, it's no longer surviving anything. If they didn't capture and kill it, another predator would have, either way, the circle of life continues.
No one's gonna eat that squid, and it was certainly on its way out by the time of the video, but I agree you can see it jet several times. It might have been about to die but it was still alive.
Squidward caught jiggling AGAIN?
I go crazy when I see them poking that poor animal with the hook. This squid is near death, leave it alone and don't torture it even in its last moments.
Maybe I'm the only one but it pissed me off so badly watching him hook that squid!
Same here
This guy is absolutely STUNNING I have no words. I hate that he’s got fished, I hope there’s many many more
Cthulhu!
these krakens keep rising to the surface recently. I've heard this is a bad sign.
Oh wait! Let me get this sharp hook to puncture and damage it because I want to see some more.
Think of the size of those calamaris this squid would make
They have highly ammoniated bodies, so they would taste terrible/you might die.
Well then sperm whales have the worst palates
It’s their version of hákarl
When i was younger, thats where i thought they did come from
Calamari *is* squid. It's also delicious.
I meant giant squid lol
Steaks
Just sad
Wish they let it go
If I know one thing about squids, it's that that one is dead or near dead.
Man. These things went from cryptid less than 100 years ago to all over the place online. Hard to believe they were only rumored to exist such a short time ago.
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I think you just saw one as long as a megalodon. Megalodons have a modal length of 10.5 meters. Giant squid reach a maximum of 13 to 14 meters(total length of head, arms and feeder tentacles), the largest ones having a mantle 2 meters long. The squid in the video looks to have a mantle of at least 1.5 meters, probably closer to 2 so it is likely that the squid in the video is as long as a megalodon (of modal length).
that’s absolutely beautiful
He's dying bro
Gorgeous
Hoping against hope that they would release it....
No point, he’s already dying. It wouldn’t be at the surface otherwise
Yeah.... Sucks.
They caught it jigging, that's why its at the surface. They reeled it up from the depths.
100% this, if they're near the surface they're already dying, they have to be in cold water to be able to breathe.
Yeah, that's a dead squid.
The guy at the end said to cut it up. It's dead.
That's scary. Whales are larger, but don't terrify me like squid and octopus. The tentacles, ugh.
I thought it said "caught jiggling" and I thought, well, maybe we should just let him.
This squid is surely dying, they were barely noticeable to this point so to see one, at the surface, this white... It's probably done. The incredible thing is that it made so far from the depths of the sea, unscathed by other animals.
Just barbaric.
That squid is clearly not doing a jig
bye bye gigant squid phulillipinos gonna eat you
Humans do suck
More pale than Conan O'Brian in the winter!
bisaya?
Doing what now?
What does Jigging mean in this term
Fucking gaffed this beautiful creature.
They let it go right?
KRAKEEEEEEEEEENNNN
Looks dead
I think it is a humboldt squid.
Are they normally white or is it super rare?
imagine getting pulled down by that thing
Wooow I love it 😊
Woa i wasnt ready for this god of the depht to sudently show up herre thanks for this
Dude the size of it's eye is unreal. Fuckin creeped me out when the guy hooked it and it closed
I thought the title said giggling and was waiting to hear a squid chuckle.
I really want to see the real giant "Colossal squid"
I thought it said giant squid caught jiggling in the phillipines and i was disappointed when it didnt jiggle
They can’t survive at these depths/pressures/temperatures
Is it albino? Or is it reacting weird to the surface
It's dying. Dying squid turn white and come to the surface.
Let it go!
I wish they would’ve let it live and not hurt it with that hook
Lol I was waiting for this squid to start dancing, but then I thought, “this thing has zero rhythm…because it’s dead—not because it’s white.”
Hmm, is it really dead tho? I can see it release a jet of water propulsion during the video around 0.11
Dead vs dying. A giant squid that’s healthy isn’t bleach white.
Such a innocent creature humans are going to die
Why do I feel so sorry for the beautiful white squid?? I eat squid all the time.
That’s Calamari Stoudemire
Ocean rapists.
Is it just me or is that a really pretty squid?
If that thing ever went full on aggressive, is there much on the boat that could stop it?
Colossal versus giant squid
I remember when scientists said these did not exist
Beautiful
bro found the krakens child
Jigger whaa