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« on: December 22, 2006, 12:08:57 PM »

It was mortally wounded during the capture, but the CNN article says that this was the first time a giant squid was caught on film.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/22/giant.squid.ap/index.html

Did not appear that the researchers were ready to deal with a live animal.  Then again, exactly how do you go about pulling a 24-foot squid into your boat without somebody getting hurt?
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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2006, 12:23:16 PM »

haven't seen that video.  I watched the special on tv (think it was Discovery Channel) where a guy rigged up a time lapse camera to a hunk of bait and got the squid on tape. 
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2006, 02:10:20 PM »

A great moment for science, in my book.  Up there with the finding of the coelocanth.
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« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2006, 11:14:45 PM »

Too bad they killed the squid though, huh?
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« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2006, 01:29:45 PM »

Too bad they killed the squid though, huh?

I agree, I have an ambivalent attitude toward this kind of thing, it's a shame the squid got killed but it might increase our understanding of the ocean's ecosystem and so it may actually save a lot of animals from dying, though I don't think the squid in question would agree with that.
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