September 27, 2005

"The size of a bus, with vast eyes and a querulous beak."

At long last! A giant squid seen live for the first time.

If you have no feeling for how cool this is, please get Errol Morris's "Person to Person" and watch the episode "Eyeball to Eyeball" -- about Clyde Roper, a man who has devoted his life to the quest to become the first human being to see a live giant squid.

It wasn't Roper who saw the squid though. Poor guy.

UPDATE: More here. "The squid finally escaped but lost a tentacle."


7 comments:

Ruth Anne Adams said...
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P_J said...

This is SO awesome! I can't wait to the video and pictures!

Would this be the basis for the coolest Omnimax film ever, or what?

vnjagvet said...

Jules Verne is vindicated.

Independent George said...

Can you imagine what it would have been like to run into one of those things on a wooden galley?

lawhawk said...

Captain Nemo could not be reached for comment, but Captain Ahab hoped that the giant squid would meet its match with the great white whale that has eluded him through the ages.

vbspurs said...

I just can't get into this squid story.

Cheers,
Victoria

Simon said...

Wow! That's a big sucker.