Oh my god.
This is a red-letter day for people who love sea monsters, let me tell you:
For the first time, a giant squid has been captured on film in its natural environment!
Photo (c) Reuters.
A pair of Japanese scientists were the lucky fellows who managed to pull this off (somewhat literally–the squid lost a tentacle to the crew during its struggle to free itself from the bait it had snapped up). The discovery was actually made this time last year, but the scientists’ report on it is only now being made public.
For those who are unaware, giant squids have long been known to exist thanks to everything from carcasses washed up on shores or caught in fishing nets to scars on sperm whales. However, actually observing a live one doing its thing in the ocean has up until now been a vision quest not unlike capturing Bigfoot, only all the more frustrating because the giant squid is and was indisputably real.
I’m so damn excited about this I may have to add Surface to my TiVo To Do list.