Friday Squid Blogging: 13-foot Tentacle Found off Santa Cruz Coast
From KSBY:
A fisherman snags a rare catch in the Santa Barbara Channel, a tentacle belonging to a giant squid.
The 13-foot-long tentacle was found floating near Santa Cruz Island last week. Little is known about the species, it is only the fourth confirmed specimen ever found in Southern California.
“They are definitely present off our coast, they are probably not very common here and they probably live in deep water, this one here was caught near the Santa Cruz Basin, which is several thousand feet deep,” said Eric Hochberg, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Curator.
The tentacle likely surfaced after the rest of the squid was eaten by a whale.
Roxanne • August 18, 2006 3:51 PM
Next, they’ll be suspecting the squid of harboring terrorists. Meanwhile, the terrorists should study the squid’s techniques. Any creature that can hide this well deserves to be emulated. Should we postulate that the squid found off LA was there to collect data for a terrorist strike against US shipping interests?
The thing is, I can imagine some people I know believing that this is the case.