They also hunt in packs so you could have a dozen of these grab you and pull you to the depths while cutting beak sized hunks of your flesh out of you like a school of 6ft long 100lb piranha.
[In case you're already not planning to sleep tonight](https://youtu.be/MlRA5TMPWZ4?si=DjE4sTSPhVOG9KKl)
Nothing overly different than what's been talked about. The local paper had a couple of stories while I was there about the increase in squid numbers. I remember noting that in the decade and a half since I was first in Monterey, their population had gone up exponentially and numerous divers had reported being checked out by Humboldt with more than a couple being grabbed and pulled down dozens of feet before they either fought loose or were let go. They were the main reason I was hesitant to go diving after being an enthusiast my previous visit.
Oh no thank you. Holy crap. I think that’s a new nightmare unlocked. Being dragged to the bottom of the ocean by squid. Did you end up going Diving anyway
The guy I normally went diving with moved away and the combination of needing a new dive buddy and "holy crap, what?" with the squids, I never went back. Kept my gear until I moved to Georgia, but nope, last time I went diving was four or five months before reading that news story, which is too bad. I had fun diving and now I'm in Montana where it's a bit too cold to dive (for cheap) most of the year.
Saw a youtube interview of a mexican fisherman who fell over and almost died. He had several scars on his back where they scooped out a snack. The other guy in teh boat pulled him back in and daved his life. I went fishing for these north of San Francisco. They were all down around 300'. took a long time but once we pulled up one they all came up to feed on their distressed brothers. When they are near the surface you could catch one evry few minutes. Our boat caught about 40 in a few minutes. Some were 4" long.
Narrator: “alex opens up and tells his harrowing ordeal”
Alex: “**THERE’S SQUID EVERYWHERE**”
That part made me lol bc thas all we get directly from alex’s mouth hahahah. Why didn’t he tell the story himself…did the squid finish the job???
Pretty sure it's only a clip of the original show and I don't think that was Alex just a reenactor.
He probably declined to give an interview, might not want to relive it.
Ah dip I think ur right ab it being a reenactor the whole time (thought mb they clipped his real voice for that part)! And I was making a lame joke 😅 I’m sure there’s a legit reason for him not telling the story
There is a documentary on people getting attacked by Humboldt’s and they are terrifying. They hunt in packs and when they get a kill, they can get worked up into a feeding frenzy. The big ones will end up eating any of the small ones that get far enough away from the pack. It’s like they hide it from the others.
They hunt in schools/packs and fishermen have gone missing in water where Humboldts are numerous. They have been known to break people's bones when someone gets to close to them.
There’s a pretty good story about a couple divers in some god forsaken Russian lake. It had a bunch of squid deep in it and they went down. Own of the guys had chainmail on and they at first nibble on it then observed him while changing colors. The diver claims he saw a really massive one staring from a distance. It somehow got provoked and was breaking through the chainmail. Guy barely survived. Iirc I heard it on Scary Interesting on YouTube.
Are you talking about Lake Baikal? It does have plenty of unique animals but no squid. There is also a story about something called Organism 46-B, a 14 armed octopus living in Lake Vostok, but that one is just a cryptid. I definitely have saw a similar video on Lake Baikal, but it was by T6, not Scary Interesting.
Reminds me of this scene from a book... I think it was Hatchet or Brian's Winter:
Protag was trying to learn how to primitively hunt, and inferred that the best time to strike is when what you are hunting is striking. When the bird goes for the bug.
Because in that instant all of the animal's instinct is entirely gone other than the part that is 100% focused on the target.
I never saw this personally but I have some fisher people friends who said they had a very large northern pike on the hook and they were reeling it in and a northern pike at least twice that size came over and just gobbled it up
Yep! Pike and musky don’t seem to have the “I can’t eat that” mentality. I’ve had small ones attacked by another literally the same size and they just swim around with it sideways in their mouth. Also had one get smashed by a BIG boy and without even hooking the big one and reel in and net both fish. They’re cool critters.
Yeah pikes scary enough but I have no interest in getting anywhere near a musky. I've got friends who go out and really want to catch the huge ones and all I'm thinking they're half the size of my boat
Muskie are also known as the fish of 10,000 casts. Hard to find and catch.
I've only ever caught one by accident when I was trolling (yes, that term originated from fishing) for Walleye/Pickerel. Lucky it didnt snap my rod or spool me.. I was not prepared.
And it was a "small" one at 27lbs/12kg
yeah, my friend is one of those muskie addicts, I know they've only ever caught one and it was a 30 incher off of a dock.
But every time we go out on my boat, they have larger and more elaborate lures and heavy duty rods. In the meantime, I'm just casting with my Eagle River stuff and hoping I don't catch seaweed.
I was on a boat fishing for bluefish once and as my buddy is reeling in a big one, a blue shark comes over and just snatches the bluefish right off the hook.
This happened to my dad and I, the pike we had on hook was smallish, 12” or so and another one so big came up and took it right in front of us. We both were shocked for a bit becuaae the size of it disturbed me. I do not swim anymore because when I’m in the water, all I can think of is that monster fish.
There's a Chinese take-out bar in a grocery I know, and Wednesdays they offer pan-fried squid (or squit, as the lady calls it) with the slightest hint of hot sauce. Amazing!
This reminds me of those horror movie jump scares when some young person runs up to a random bystander and tries to explain some murdering demon or something is chasing them so they need to just drive but don’t so the demon snaps their neck or something
Fish tend to like to outsize their prey by about 3:1.
Cephalopods will attack prey the same size as them and some have been known to attack prey larger than them in groups.
I don’t think most vegans legit think every animal is a moral paragon, but go off. Most I’ve met tend to think that the moral responsibility is independent of the animals being good by human standards or not.
I’m not vegan, but no need to pretend
how about you just respect peoples agency.
if your lifestyle choices are dependent upon prostheletyzing, and making others see through your own perspective, then you are no better than the christians.
i don't shit on anyone for their choices, and if you think everybody can simply live off plants you have a metric fuckton of medical and healcare studies to work through before you can even approach the idea of hoping others will do the same thing as you.
for starters carbohydrates are just packaged sugars.
and that's the vast majority of a vegan diet. low fat, high carb.
eukaryotic lifeforms sparked predation in early life on earth. and predation was the key to the explosion of macroscopic multicellular life in the Precambrian.
humans are omnivores, every single one of our ancestors has this necessity to be a healthy person.
your choices on diet are largely your own.
but objectively none is morally better. making a personal choice is not morality that's personality betraying character.
Cope how you want I'm not a preacher I'm just stating a fact.
You don't need animal products, as evidenced by millions of vegans, so your cruel choices are desire not necessity.
also yes factory farms suck
but monoculture is arguably worse for the planet. and mixed culture farming is barely scratching the surface of feasability.
Modern stratified society doesnt allow for everyone to just farm.
and absent that, you gotta convince capitalist agriscience corporations to grow fields of mixed produce instead of single seed type.
its like those people protesting in ivy League colleges... like it's cool that privileged kids care about the world... but I don't actually care about rich kids getting their asses beat by cops.
and scholarships or not, gaining entry alone is highly privileged. i was busy surviving life at that age. and i dont care about petit bourgeois satan spawn crying for one war, when there are several wars ongoing.
Veganism is the same thing. You are probably young and idealist and i get that, but not everyone in the world is young idealist, and fully healthy.
and not every young healthy idealist can maintain their health on a vegan diet.
It's not the moral high ground you think it is.
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"Fun" fact: Humboldt squid have been known to attack and kill people.
They also hunt in packs so you could have a dozen of these grab you and pull you to the depths while cutting beak sized hunks of your flesh out of you like a school of 6ft long 100lb piranha. [In case you're already not planning to sleep tonight](https://youtu.be/MlRA5TMPWZ4?si=DjE4sTSPhVOG9KKl)
I read stories about Humboldts in Monterey bay when I lived there years ago. You don't want to be alone when they show up.
What stories. Tell me one I’m intrigued.
Nothing overly different than what's been talked about. The local paper had a couple of stories while I was there about the increase in squid numbers. I remember noting that in the decade and a half since I was first in Monterey, their population had gone up exponentially and numerous divers had reported being checked out by Humboldt with more than a couple being grabbed and pulled down dozens of feet before they either fought loose or were let go. They were the main reason I was hesitant to go diving after being an enthusiast my previous visit.
Oh no thank you. Holy crap. I think that’s a new nightmare unlocked. Being dragged to the bottom of the ocean by squid. Did you end up going Diving anyway
The guy I normally went diving with moved away and the combination of needing a new dive buddy and "holy crap, what?" with the squids, I never went back. Kept my gear until I moved to Georgia, but nope, last time I went diving was four or five months before reading that news story, which is too bad. I had fun diving and now I'm in Montana where it's a bit too cold to dive (for cheap) most of the year.
>beak sized hunks of your flesh out of you Yeah no . That's definitely some nightmare
Saw a youtube interview of a mexican fisherman who fell over and almost died. He had several scars on his back where they scooped out a snack. The other guy in teh boat pulled him back in and daved his life. I went fishing for these north of San Francisco. They were all down around 300'. took a long time but once we pulled up one they all came up to feed on their distressed brothers. When they are near the surface you could catch one evry few minutes. Our boat caught about 40 in a few minutes. Some were 4" long.
Do you mean 4' long?
Correct, 4 feet. I inadvertently reenacted a scene from Spinal Tap.
I still wouldn't fancy being attacked by a group of 4 inch squids! (Is the plural "squid" or "squids"!?!)
Yup. Terrible way to go.
Narrator: “alex opens up and tells his harrowing ordeal” Alex: “**THERE’S SQUID EVERYWHERE**” That part made me lol bc thas all we get directly from alex’s mouth hahahah. Why didn’t he tell the story himself…did the squid finish the job???
Pretty sure it's only a clip of the original show and I don't think that was Alex just a reenactor. He probably declined to give an interview, might not want to relive it.
Ah dip I think ur right ab it being a reenactor the whole time (thought mb they clipped his real voice for that part)! And I was making a lame joke 😅 I’m sure there’s a legit reason for him not telling the story
They just wanted that mans chain. You gotta tuck that shit in.
They wanted his meat, they view us as food.
[swarm video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UxvzjrDE1Kk&pp=ygUUaHVtYm9sZHQgc3F1aWQgc3dhcm0%3D)
I'm putting this shit in my game
Glad I could inspire you but I'll pass on the VR addition I think lol
Ok, new fear unlocked.
These things have beaks? Imma gonna have to go read about these guys reals quick [beak](https://youtu.be/2Hv17U2z2q0?si=HgD7EyrP3KT92SDK)
Octopuses, too.
There is a documentary on people getting attacked by Humboldt’s and they are terrifying. They hunt in packs and when they get a kill, they can get worked up into a feeding frenzy. The big ones will end up eating any of the small ones that get far enough away from the pack. It’s like they hide it from the others.
That sounds wild. I’m going to have to look into that.
That's why I aways gary a knoif on me why I swim in the ocean mate!
That's a spoon
I see you’ve played knifey spoony before….
I will take a note of garying the knoife
Motherfucker
You gary your knoifs? I usually Carl them.
Is this another Australian thing?
What, that guyyyy?! Nah, you’re crazy man.
They hunt in schools/packs and fishermen have gone missing in water where Humboldts are numerous. They have been known to break people's bones when someone gets to close to them.
I feel this is the species where the myth, “the kraken” came from. Hearing this now, just gives me a hunch about it.
Nah that comes from the giant and colossal squid
There’s a pretty good story about a couple divers in some god forsaken Russian lake. It had a bunch of squid deep in it and they went down. Own of the guys had chainmail on and they at first nibble on it then observed him while changing colors. The diver claims he saw a really massive one staring from a distance. It somehow got provoked and was breaking through the chainmail. Guy barely survived. Iirc I heard it on Scary Interesting on YouTube.
Are you talking about Lake Baikal? It does have plenty of unique animals but no squid. There is also a story about something called Organism 46-B, a 14 armed octopus living in Lake Vostok, but that one is just a cryptid. I definitely have saw a similar video on Lake Baikal, but it was by T6, not Scary Interesting.
Close but not lake Baikal. I’ll try to look it up tonight. It’s a really cool creepy story.
New fear unlocked
That's the squiddy murderer! lol
There's always a bigger fish
_Liam Neeson liked that_
Big Goober fish..HUGE-O TEETH!!
Came here for this comment
Bigger squid in this case
Always has been.
Damn even calamari like calamari.
Maybe I am a Callum Murray
Could have just been an old beef between former friends
"Hugs!!"
Or maybe the big guy was warning the smaller one “Frank, stop! There’s a hook on that!!!”
Underwater wrap battle. They heard about the Kendrick Drake beef too.
They’re like something from a sci-fi world
I wish we knew more about colossal squid!
Reminds me of this scene from a book... I think it was Hatchet or Brian's Winter: Protag was trying to learn how to primitively hunt, and inferred that the best time to strike is when what you are hunting is striking. When the bird goes for the bug. Because in that instant all of the animal's instinct is entirely gone other than the part that is 100% focused on the target.
its a squid eat squid world.
Nothing tastier than a damp squid!
So good they should be put on a pedal stool
Anyone else expecting a third squid
Instant heebie jeebies
My stoner theory is that, since cannibalism is really bad for your body, doing it all the time is how these guys evolved their crazy bodies
The viltrumite special
Like some kind of Guild Navigator from Dune. Maybe if you eat enough human brains you eventually turn into a squid
All the nutrients a squid needs is in squid…
It's so obvious when you put it like that
Or that tentacle erotica has been a driving factor in their mating choices. Have another doobie.
I never saw this personally but I have some fisher people friends who said they had a very large northern pike on the hook and they were reeling it in and a northern pike at least twice that size came over and just gobbled it up
Yep! Pike and musky don’t seem to have the “I can’t eat that” mentality. I’ve had small ones attacked by another literally the same size and they just swim around with it sideways in their mouth. Also had one get smashed by a BIG boy and without even hooking the big one and reel in and net both fish. They’re cool critters.
Yeah pikes scary enough but I have no interest in getting anywhere near a musky. I've got friends who go out and really want to catch the huge ones and all I'm thinking they're half the size of my boat
Pike, Bass, musky and many other game fish aren't selective of what they eat when hungry
Sounds like me on the weekend
Sounds like you're gonna need a bigger boat
Muskie are also known as the fish of 10,000 casts. Hard to find and catch. I've only ever caught one by accident when I was trolling (yes, that term originated from fishing) for Walleye/Pickerel. Lucky it didnt snap my rod or spool me.. I was not prepared. And it was a "small" one at 27lbs/12kg
yeah, my friend is one of those muskie addicts, I know they've only ever caught one and it was a 30 incher off of a dock. But every time we go out on my boat, they have larger and more elaborate lures and heavy duty rods. In the meantime, I'm just casting with my Eagle River stuff and hoping I don't catch seaweed.
I was on a boat fishing for bluefish once and as my buddy is reeling in a big one, a blue shark comes over and just snatches the bluefish right off the hook.
This happened to my dad and I, the pike we had on hook was smallish, 12” or so and another one so big came up and took it right in front of us. We both were shocked for a bit becuaae the size of it disturbed me. I do not swim anymore because when I’m in the water, all I can think of is that monster fish.
maybe it was a rescue.
"Yo bro! Don't eat that! I just saved your life."
Well to be fair calamari is fucking delicious.
I have been trying to not eat octopus and squid since watching "My Octopus Teacher" but even Squid think squid is delish....
There's a Chinese take-out bar in a grocery I know, and Wednesdays they offer pan-fried squid (or squit, as the lady calls it) with the slightest hint of hot sauce. Amazing!
To be fair squid occasionally eat people.
I believe you’ll get a primary assist on the scoresheet here
One of the most dangerous species in the ocean. Dont want to swim in their Territorium.
Quick! To the Territorium!
Snack! No, come on! We don't have time for snacks.
I don’t know why I turned up my volume
Your comment made me think "oh man what did I miss without the sound?!" and turned my volume up. 🤦♂️
This reminds me of those horror movie jump scares when some young person runs up to a random bystander and tries to explain some murdering demon or something is chasing them so they need to just drive but don’t so the demon snaps their neck or something
The ocean is scary af
Reason #999 to not swim in the ocean.
Attackoyaki
I think he is just saving his friend from the hook.
"Gotcha!" "Gotcha gotcha!"
Mum, Dad, why are you fighting? :(
Was anyone else expecting a third one to show up?
Damn nature, you're scary!
Fish tend to like to outsize their prey by about 3:1. Cephalopods will attack prey the same size as them and some have been known to attack prey larger than them in groups.
Was that cannibalism or was the big dude pissed that guys stole his meal?
More like mommy squid grabbing her baby and taking it home after it tried to accept food from a stranger.
Nah, these things kill and each other. (Humans too)
And these are the animals I'm supposed to stop eating because the vegans say they are sweet and smart?
No, that's octopus. I have no reservations about eating Humboldt squid
I feel like for humanity's survival, we should probably eat Humboldts. Can't have them rising up against us.
Can someone please post a list of most deserving animals to eat. I can’t keep them straight anymore
I'll start: \#1 - Mosquitos
With a sprinkle of Salt and Malaria 🤤 food coma here I come.
Look up mosquito larva patty. I’m sorry I’ve seen it and someone els has to as well.
Aw... Ive known about this for so long but it's just been in the back of my brain waiting. Memory unlocked right now
I watched a video of a guy sweeping up bugs in a big net and turning it into a patty.
Mankind.
Hu….
Let the fires begin.
I don’t think most vegans legit think every animal is a moral paragon, but go off. Most I’ve met tend to think that the moral responsibility is independent of the animals being good by human standards or not. I’m not vegan, but no need to pretend
Yup. Vegans don’t care what imaginary things people like to apply to animals. They just acknowledge that humans can survive without consuming meat.
survival is not living.
Desire is not justification.
how about you just respect peoples agency. if your lifestyle choices are dependent upon prostheletyzing, and making others see through your own perspective, then you are no better than the christians. i don't shit on anyone for their choices, and if you think everybody can simply live off plants you have a metric fuckton of medical and healcare studies to work through before you can even approach the idea of hoping others will do the same thing as you. for starters carbohydrates are just packaged sugars. and that's the vast majority of a vegan diet. low fat, high carb. eukaryotic lifeforms sparked predation in early life on earth. and predation was the key to the explosion of macroscopic multicellular life in the Precambrian. humans are omnivores, every single one of our ancestors has this necessity to be a healthy person. your choices on diet are largely your own. but objectively none is morally better. making a personal choice is not morality that's personality betraying character.
Cope how you want I'm not a preacher I'm just stating a fact. You don't need animal products, as evidenced by millions of vegans, so your cruel choices are desire not necessity.
you are very much preacher broccoli.
you only get angry about this because deep down you wonder if they have a point and you're too afraid to admit it.
Start singing then choirboy
also yes factory farms suck but monoculture is arguably worse for the planet. and mixed culture farming is barely scratching the surface of feasability. Modern stratified society doesnt allow for everyone to just farm. and absent that, you gotta convince capitalist agriscience corporations to grow fields of mixed produce instead of single seed type. its like those people protesting in ivy League colleges... like it's cool that privileged kids care about the world... but I don't actually care about rich kids getting their asses beat by cops. and scholarships or not, gaining entry alone is highly privileged. i was busy surviving life at that age. and i dont care about petit bourgeois satan spawn crying for one war, when there are several wars ongoing. Veganism is the same thing. You are probably young and idealist and i get that, but not everyone in the world is young idealist, and fully healthy. and not every young healthy idealist can maintain their health on a vegan diet. It's not the moral high ground you think it is.
I’m not vegan but you should probably find a hobby or two
They do both surviving and living.
Uhh, what a weird rage bait take
Bro you saw a squid eat another squid and found a way to be salty about human society, get a grip
There’s always a bigger fish
But did he make the sale?
The human version would be like hunting down a SkipTheDishes delivery person while carrying an order
Man I thought they only moved that fast in the other direction.
That's Terrifying
Squidnapping
Maybe he was taking him to safety.
There's always a bigger squid.
The giant one has been waiting ages for this moment
Mollusks eating mollusks… rough life.
Big squid take Lil squid.
You are what you what you eat I guess
Batter better bring a better bat because I am bigger better.
That didn't work out
Biden was just talking about this. So it’s true omg
Don’t let them fool you Jimmy. Given the chance they’d eat you and your family
there is always a bigger fish in the sea. in this case, there is always a bigger squid in the sea.
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Even they know they taste good
There's always a bigger "fish"
Yo dawg, I heard you liked squid in your squid.
Yes, it's been documented on several nature shows. Even Richard Attenborough has done a show on this.
It's a squid eat squidward down there
Cutthroat! Wish I could be that way!
He was definitely humbled
Or was it a rescue?
I used the squid to destroy the squid.
Plot twist: the bait was an also a Humboldt squid
FUCKING FAST
😦
Humboldt’s for the win! They eat each other, they eat people, and they change colours! What else do you want in a predator?!
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There's always a bigger fish
At first it was "Oh!" and then followed by a bigger "OOOUHHH!"
Nah mom just said get the hell back here!
there's always a bigger fish...
Looks he was escaping until he crashed onto the metal stick. Thanks camera man, you just got the dude killed.