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January 5, 2007

Friday Squid Blogging: Photographing the Giant Squid

Another will try:

Marine biologist Peter Batson says he plans to try photographing giant squid at a depth of 3000m off the coast of New Zealand.
Mr Batson, who runs a New Zealand company, Explore The Abyss Ltd, with his father, told the Courier-Mail newspaper in Brisbane that he will use a remote-controlled camera to snap the squid.

Posted on January 5, 2007 at 3:13 PM • 8 Comments • View Blog Reactions

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I guess thats one less New Zealander studying sheep at least ...

Posted by: Rob Mayfield at January 5, 2007 4:01 PM

friday squid blogging without pics .. nfg

Posted by: Anonymous at January 5, 2007 5:40 PM

We watched a special on the Science channel last night about a Japanese researcher who managed to take still photos of a giant squid back in 2004. I remember hearing of it at the time, but this is the first time I'd seen the pictures.

The most interesting bits (to me) were left half-said: they might not have gotten any pictures at all if the giant hadn't gotten a tentacle caught on the bait hook, and eventually the animal freed itself by cutting off said tentacle (which happened off-camera, so we don't know if it bit it off or pulled out its Leatherman tool). No dummy, that squid. Well, except for the "getting caught in the first place" part.

Posted by: Roxanne at January 5, 2007 7:20 PM

@Anonymous:

Roll your own?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=squid&btnG=Search+Images

http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=squid&m=tags

Posted by: BLP at January 5, 2007 7:20 PM

Love the squid feature. Mahalo. Your blog is one of those I visit regularly because I find it very useful. Again, thanks.

Posted by: Keone at January 6, 2007 12:41 PM

Just a note: I've been having Friday Anteater blogging for several weeks:

http://paxnortona.notfrisco2.com/?cat=208

Posted by: Joel Sax at January 6, 2007 11:15 PM

One of the images found on Anonymous' http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=squid&m=tags leads to a really great "Super-Squid" photo, posted by Scott Beale on October 20th, 2006:

http://laughingsquid.com/laughing-squid-photo-by-brian-mccarty/

Clearly staged/fake, but still pretty good!

Posted by: X the Unknown at January 8, 2007 10:47 AM

Sort of squiddy:

http://www.bibi.org/box/archives/2007/01/my_little_cthulhu.html

Posted by: X the Unknown at January 10, 2007 8:31 AM