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Anybody who cares about the Giant Squid needs to read this.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:48 pm
by Danno
I go to this website Tonmo.com and every now and then try and catch up on cepholapods. On the site, there was this guy who worked on a recent dive by attaching a camera to a humbolt squid. There is a special airing Novemeber 14th @ 10:00 PM EST on the History Channel that has to do with that dive. Well apparently, they caught a squid on camera that might be about 100 feet in length. A couple people have reported the size verification is difficult and the size is ranging from 50-100 feet. Regardless, they caught a very large animal on camera and the History channel bought the rights to the footage. Right now the history channel ran an add saying that the size of the squid is 108 feet. Species hasn't been determined yet. The guy on the website is telling everybody that, "Whatever we caught on film, it is big, REAL BIG." I'm hoping he isn't just playing it up for some ratings.

Can you imagine? A 100 foot long squid? If this turns out to be true, this IS the biggest find ever. This is truly a sea monster and then some. I've dreamed about seeing squid this large since I was a kid.

http://www.pixsy.com/detailframe.aspx?i ... omos_squid

http://www.history.com/media.do?action= ... iant_squid

PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:07 pm
by KaijuZoo

PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:55 am
by Xenorama

PostPosted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:02 pm
by The Shadow
The new History Channel series Monster Quest is great - and this past Wednesday's episode was particularly intriguing. Hopefully they'll do a follow-up type episode later on to try and find out more.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:24 pm
by kpa

PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:33 am
by Danno
Well I have bad news. I go to this forum "Tonmo." People like Steve O'Shea and Scott Cassle actually post there. Well Scott had some issues with the editing and facts for that episode. He said the squid was probably 25 feet long. :/ Here is what he said on the forum.

[quote]Dear TONMO and all it's members

Last night History Channel premiered a show called: MonsterQuest: The Humboldt Squid Found. One year ago, I worked with the production company to help make this show.

My exposure to this documentary was when I viewed the debut broadcast with the rest of the world on Wednesday, November 14th 2007.

There are several errors in the documentary and since I was directly involved with the expedition as a research facilitator and explorer, I feel ethically obligated to present the facts for what they are and make corrections when errors are made.

I was not involved with the writing of this story, the editing, or the scientific, technical accuracy of this production. The only time I saw the footage of the “very large squid in questionâ€