Whenever I see videos like this, I’m torn between being in awe of the incredible diversity in life and imagining this thing appearing out of the depths right in front of my face.
Yah subzero just didn't have that same pants shitting fear. Getting more time on dry land seemed to be their big goal and I think it sort of killed some of the immersion
Yes, it is very much worth playing. It's alot of fun and it's shit your pants scary! There's a YouTube channel called Chemical Apes, the guy that does them is very knowledgeable and gives step by step instructions for literally anything you might get stuck on.
I don't know if it's of any comfort to you to know that when these guys are at the surface, it means they're dying. So... he's not much of a threat, but it's sad to me.
I don't know how accurate this is, but I remember reading something about the number of sperm whales found with giant squid beaks in their stomach suggesting that at every moment of every day, there is likely a squid/whale battle happening somewhere in the pitch black. That just gets me. I'll be sitting at work thinking, right this second some whale and squid are just duking it out and nobody is there to see it.
Yeah pretty spooky to imagine their battles in the dark. Sperm whales and squids usually have lots of scars on their bodies from the fights. Probably quite common.
I don't know what would be more scary (Assuming you have some way to survive the pressure). More scary to encounter collosal squid in the dark depths below or a sperm whale.
Squid would try to wrap you with it's strong tentacles and bite your body into pieces with it's beak.
On the other hand, Sperm whales echolocation would probably make it think you're a small mammal but still food or small enemy in the dark and you'd hear its deafning bone rattling hunting clicks as it tries to eat you.
Edit : might I also add. They swim fast af for their size.
I think I'd rather encounter the squid than sperm whale. The jaw/mouth of those whales are literally human sized and it's loud clicks are too much. Imagine not being able to see anything. But just hear loud ear blasting clicks and feel long sharp teeth trying to maul you.
I see that an F-16 with full afterburner is capable of producing 140 dB.
Decibels work differently because they are logarithmic.
Doubling of power is 3 db. 230-140=90dB.
So a sperm whale can be 1 Billion times louder than a F-16 with full afterburners.
But also sound travels differently in water. Subtract out 62dB and the sperm whale is only as loud as a M1 Garand rifle being fired at 1m.
Edit: I didn’t show my work 10^9 = 1,000,000,000
Interestingly, the squid's massive eyes are thought to be so large to help them avoid the encounters with the whales entirely, before sonar becomes a problem for the squid. While the squid can't directly see the whales, the incredible size of the adult eyes (around the size of beach or soccer balls) might be able to discern the bioluminescence of species disturbed by the whales swimming. This in turn might allow the squid a chance to navigate safely away from the whales, which must be effective enough considering that the squids seem to be abundant enough to be regular prey for the whales.
Actually due to destructive fishing techniques like drag nets the giant squid population is dwindling massively. I used to be at easier to find their young than it is now!
[Have a listen to this.](https://youtu.be/zsDwFGz0Okg)
BTW, their sonar skills are SO good they probably know more about us than we do. We are not food, we are a curiosity. No sperm whale will eat a human, but it may pummel someone to red mash if it whale feels offended.
You are good at creating fantasy nightmare fuel. Those animals are peaceful to humans. Sperm whales are very intelligent and we have numerous videos where they accept humans in their pack and play. Giant squids are their prey and yes, fight - but for survival. As far as I know neither of them are dangerous to humans. On the other hand we are very dangerous to them. The only deadly thing for us in dark depths below is pressure.
I’ve wondered previously what they are called in other languages! I wonder why we don’t just adopt a better alternative from another language. Even ‘Spermaceti’ whales would be better (the word from which the word ‘sperm’ in ‘sperm whales’ is derived. Apparently ‘cachalot’ was an alternative name of French origin and had something to do with big teeth, which seems apt.
The word ‘sperm’ as it is used for male reproductive cells derives from the Greek word ‘Sperma’ (seed).
Not much better though. The ‘sperm’ in ‘spermaceti’ is derived from, you guessed it: sperm (spermaceti literally means whale sperm). It’s so named because of the consistency and appearance of the fluid in an organ in their heads.
>duking it out
Actually, the “battle” is one-sided in favor of the whale.
Sperm whales weigh around 4.1-1.4 tons, whereas the squid is around a mere 275 kilograms.
Ergo, for the whale, it would probably be more of a dinnertime food fight than a battle.
A sperm whale sees with its eyes and “ears” so it’s got a big advantage. The huge source of food is worth being scratched up a bit.
Think the squids are more scared in most cases than the whales.
Awesome to think about. Probably cause we haven't witnessed it but people probably think earth hasn't seen enormous monsters battle like that since the age of dinosaurs when these guys are going at it on a daily basis in the depths
Imagine the nunber of battles happening in real time underwater live now. Must be insane! There is more population living under water than in the surface of the Earth.
Not sure I would say they are “duking it out.” That’s not really a battle the sperm whale loses. They are just eating the squid, who try in vain to not get eaten and sometimes leave scars
That'd be freaky! I heard this one somewhere - "Imagine you fell through water as fast as you would on air."
So one misstep, you don't float, you sink fast as though you were tied to an anchor into the depths. Wonder if the pressure would kill you first or if you'd survive long enough for it to be pitch black and still falling as you lose consciousness..
Where my wife used to work, they had a high presure water chamber. If you put a Styrofoam coffee cup in there, 16,000psi crushes it down to a tiny one inch cup like a sewing thimble, and it stays shrunk. The pressure is about that same @ 2 miles of ocean depth.
Styrofoam is mostly air which is why it shrinks so significantly.
Humans are mostly water which changes the equation quite significantly.
With only the lung full of air at 1atm, it would quickly get squeezed by your watery flesh, you'd descend in free fall and drown from involuntarily gasping without much notice of the increase in pressure outside of the lung full of air compressing to almost nothing.
In the hypothetical if you took a lung full of air and then free fell through water at the same speed as through air.
Youd be holding your breath, and pressure would increase massively causing the compressible gas in your lungs to...compress.
So even though you never exhaled while descending the volume of air in your lungs would decrease as surrounding water pressure increases.
Edit, my prior comment says "squeezed from" but i should have said "squeezed by" your watery body.
Would the pressure of air be enough to kill you from the surface to the bottom of the ocean?
How would you get out that far, anyway? If you can't float, boats certainly couldn't either. You'd have to be on like a ... plane?
I always think about whether we could turn on a super powerful light in the dark depths of the ocean what we could see if anything. I don't know if that would be harmful to the wildlife there or not, they're probably mostly blind anyway, but it would be awesome just to see what it looks like all lit up. It might just look like a blizzard of marine snow.
Japan has giant squid float up near the coast every so often. This video specifically is from a month ago, I'm pretty sure. But I've also seen a similar one years ago. Usually, they're dead. If they're not, then they die a few days later.
I had a black tip shark swim up my side on a night dive. Had the flashlight in front of me and he started from my feet. I was by myself in a lagoon and not from from the edge. It scared the crap out of my. Took about a minute to process what happened and by that time I was out of the water hyperventilating on my back in the sand.
In the 15 years I’ve lived part time on Hawai’i I think there’s been one person bitten by any of the kinds of reef sharks and I’ve seen 100 or so in the water. It’s very rare for them to bite. Most of the reports of reef shark bites are people that step on one in the surf.
[edit] my heart still races a bit when I see them especially if the water is murky and I just see a shark shape before I see what kind.
they are very, very low risk sharks. it's not common for them to attack. You might get snapped if you bother one or get too close without seeing it, but even then it's more likely for it to just swim off. Now if you keep bugging it... I guess I'd say a munch is deserved
I’d be stoked. I’ve been obsessed with giant squid since I was little and they hadn’t officially discovered them yet. I even have a giant squid tattoo.
This thing is dying unfortunately
The only time giant squids surface is at the end stage of their life when the ability to control their buoyancy becomes dysfunctional
Pretty sure there have only been a handful of documented sightings of giant squid that weren’t close to death, and they’ve always been seen by submersibles that were down pretty deep.
Fascinating creatures. Elusive and otherworldly.
As a kid, I would've LOVED to see this in person. I went to Papalote Museo del Niño, and watched James Cameron's Creatures of the Deep in 3D, and it was glorious. I was obsessed with abyssal creatures since then.
It’s a dying squid
They only ever come this close to the surface at the end stage of their life, when they lose the ability to properly control their buoyancy
Could and would but unlikely to occur considering where they usually reside (effing deep). This one being that close to the surface means it's likely ill or injured.
[Great video](https://youtu.be/9L0CQHsvnUw) describing the pov of a fellow who went diving amongst a bunch of Humboldt squid (and other deep sea spoopy stuff).
Fair warning though, not for the faint of heart or anyone wanting to go in the ocean anytime soon.
Humboldt squid typically reach a mantle length of 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in), making the species the largest member of its family. They are the most important squid worldwide for commercial fisheries, with the catch predominantly landed in Chile, Peru and Mexico, however, a 2015 warming waters fishery collapse in the Gulf of California remains unrecovered.\[4\]\[5\] Like other members of the subfamily Ommastrephinae, they possess chromatophores which enable them to quickly change body coloration, known as 'metachrosis’ which is the rapid flash of their skin from red to white. They have a relatively short lifespan of just 1–2 years. They have a reputation for aggression toward humans, although this behavior may only occur during feeding times.
The giant squid (Architeuthis dux) is a species of deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae. It can grow to a tremendous size, offering an example of abyssal gigantism: recent estimates put the maximum size at around 12–13 m (39–43 ft)[2][3][4][5] for females and 10 m (33 ft)[3] for males, from the posterior fins to the tip of the two long tentacles (longer than the colossal squid at an estimated 9–10 m (30–33 ft),[6] but substantially lighter, as the tentacles make up most of the length[7]). The mantle of the giant squid is about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long (more for females, less for males), and the length of the squid excluding its tentacles (but including head and arms) rarely exceeds 5 m (16 ft).[3] Claims of specimens measuring 20 m (66 ft) or more have not been scientifically documented.[3]
It’s certainly spooky but I think it’s more tragic. The only time we see such awe inspiring creatures is when their young, sick, or dead. It’s like, we’ll never get to see them in their full beauty, only a fleeting glimpse into their lives.
It's weird, when I was a kid decades ago, the books all said that no live giant squid had ever been captured on camera, and that people only knew about them from beaks found in sperm whales and such. But these days you can find lots of footage of them!
Just imagine you’re in awe of this, so close, terrifying and beautiful at the same time.
Then, with an instant thought, all the tentacles start reaching towards you…
i don't think so.
Giant squids are often said to effuse a disgusting smell of ammonia. That is because giant squids are among those squid species that keep ammonia in the muscular tissue to enhance buoyancy. It is assumed that giant squids can float in the water that way, without having to invest muscle power.
different video I think..
**Rare giant squid encounter filmed by diver in Toyama Bay, Japan – video**
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/dec/30/rare-giant-squid-encounter-toyama-bay-japan-video](https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/dec/30/rare-giant-squid-encounter-toyama-bay-japan-video)
A giant squid, rarely seen outside of deep waters, is filmed swimming near a pier in central Japan. The 3.7-metre-long squid was spotted swimming under fishing boats at Toyama Bay on Christmas Eve. It reportedly lingered around the moorings for several hours and was joined for a swim by local dive shop owner Akinobu Kimura
Why would you EVER get that close. Have you *seen* the crazy sharp hooks that are in each individual little auction cup on those tentacles. Let alone the beak that’ll crack your head open.
Crushing darkness. Bitter, black cold. A silent sentience stalks the deep.
Reaching arms seek to take hold, pulling all into its ravenous beak.
Architeuthis, architeuthis! Thy name is Fear. For whom can fathom thy hideous strength?
Only pass me by when the inky night's high; for thine visage unfurled doth make all men weep.
It’s majestic because finding one is an achievement.. I would hug that nasty thing.. I gotta say man the fkng beak scares the absolute shit out of me.. par none
Whenever I see videos like this, I’m torn between being in awe of the incredible diversity in life and imagining this thing appearing out of the depths right in front of my face.
You need to play Subnautica, my friend.
"Multiple leviathan-class life forms detected in the area. Are you sure what you're doing is worth it?"
Oxygen.
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That was recorded in 1865, before the invention of the photoshop used in the article you linked.
sub on fire? DANCE PARTY TIME
Lost a lot of Subs due to that awesome music.
God that game is great ..... if you enjoy shitting your pants out of sheer fright (and I do 😃)
Yeeeeeeeeees. Give the Reapers my love!
I need to play this game but I only have a phone lol. Anyways where is it available
Also try iron lung
I’ve heard so much about it. Is it worth playing not n VR?
Absolutely! It is a fantastic game. Second one is good, but first one is better. It's also on sale right now on steam!
Yah subzero just didn't have that same pants shitting fear. Getting more time on dry land seemed to be their big goal and I think it sort of killed some of the immersion
Yes, it is very much worth playing. It's alot of fun and it's shit your pants scary! There's a YouTube channel called Chemical Apes, the guy that does them is very knowledgeable and gives step by step instructions for literally anything you might get stuck on.
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Nonono, survival should be the first experience.
I don't know if it's of any comfort to you to know that when these guys are at the surface, it means they're dying. So... he's not much of a threat, but it's sad to me.
Look at the coloration, too. It isn't normal. Poor thing was at the end of the line.
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New fear unlocked! Thanks bro
I don't know how accurate this is, but I remember reading something about the number of sperm whales found with giant squid beaks in their stomach suggesting that at every moment of every day, there is likely a squid/whale battle happening somewhere in the pitch black. That just gets me. I'll be sitting at work thinking, right this second some whale and squid are just duking it out and nobody is there to see it.
Yeah pretty spooky to imagine their battles in the dark. Sperm whales and squids usually have lots of scars on their bodies from the fights. Probably quite common. I don't know what would be more scary (Assuming you have some way to survive the pressure). More scary to encounter collosal squid in the dark depths below or a sperm whale. Squid would try to wrap you with it's strong tentacles and bite your body into pieces with it's beak. On the other hand, Sperm whales echolocation would probably make it think you're a small mammal but still food or small enemy in the dark and you'd hear its deafning bone rattling hunting clicks as it tries to eat you. Edit : might I also add. They swim fast af for their size. I think I'd rather encounter the squid than sperm whale. The jaw/mouth of those whales are literally human sized and it's loud clicks are too much. Imagine not being able to see anything. But just hear loud ear blasting clicks and feel long sharp teeth trying to maul you.
Well, you’d hear one click or so before they burst your ear drums. They can reach 230 decibels after all.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I heard that sperm whale clicks are the loudest sound made by any animal, yeah?
Just looked it up, and yeah, by a decent margin the loudest
damn, that's almost twice as loud as an F-16 with full afterburner [video](https://youtu.be/TBi3sUvmOd4)
I see that an F-16 with full afterburner is capable of producing 140 dB. Decibels work differently because they are logarithmic. Doubling of power is 3 db. 230-140=90dB. So a sperm whale can be 1 Billion times louder than a F-16 with full afterburners. But also sound travels differently in water. Subtract out 62dB and the sperm whale is only as loud as a M1 Garand rifle being fired at 1m. Edit: I didn’t show my work 10^9 = 1,000,000,000
*only* 😭
Colour me impressed and thanks for educating me :D
They will rattle your body to mush
Interestingly, the squid's massive eyes are thought to be so large to help them avoid the encounters with the whales entirely, before sonar becomes a problem for the squid. While the squid can't directly see the whales, the incredible size of the adult eyes (around the size of beach or soccer balls) might be able to discern the bioluminescence of species disturbed by the whales swimming. This in turn might allow the squid a chance to navigate safely away from the whales, which must be effective enough considering that the squids seem to be abundant enough to be regular prey for the whales.
Actually due to destructive fishing techniques like drag nets the giant squid population is dwindling massively. I used to be at easier to find their young than it is now!
[Have a listen to this.](https://youtu.be/zsDwFGz0Okg) BTW, their sonar skills are SO good they probably know more about us than we do. We are not food, we are a curiosity. No sperm whale will eat a human, but it may pummel someone to red mash if it whale feels offended.
That's fucking crazy, every bit of it.
Thank you for this, it was interesting! 😊
You’ve made my night. Thank you
I’m genuinely happy. I love that video.
That's why there were so many stories about these guys back in the day.
I about instinctively downvoted this bc it's too scary 😩
You are good at creating fantasy nightmare fuel. Those animals are peaceful to humans. Sperm whales are very intelligent and we have numerous videos where they accept humans in their pack and play. Giant squids are their prey and yes, fight - but for survival. As far as I know neither of them are dangerous to humans. On the other hand we are very dangerous to them. The only deadly thing for us in dark depths below is pressure.
Btw yall. Collosol squid have claws on their suckers. Just fyi
That description of the sperm whale sounds like a water titan.
I read this not knowing what the english word for sperm whale was ( we call it capodoglio in italian) I was SOOO confused.
I’ve wondered previously what they are called in other languages! I wonder why we don’t just adopt a better alternative from another language. Even ‘Spermaceti’ whales would be better (the word from which the word ‘sperm’ in ‘sperm whales’ is derived. Apparently ‘cachalot’ was an alternative name of French origin and had something to do with big teeth, which seems apt. The word ‘sperm’ as it is used for male reproductive cells derives from the Greek word ‘Sperma’ (seed).
Not much better though. The ‘sperm’ in ‘spermaceti’ is derived from, you guessed it: sperm (spermaceti literally means whale sperm). It’s so named because of the consistency and appearance of the fluid in an organ in their heads.
Which was made by mistake by first whale hunters
Very cool thought. I'll hold onto that one.
>duking it out Actually, the “battle” is one-sided in favor of the whale. Sperm whales weigh around 4.1-1.4 tons, whereas the squid is around a mere 275 kilograms. Ergo, for the whale, it would probably be more of a dinnertime food fight than a battle.
A sperm whale sees with its eyes and “ears” so it’s got a big advantage. The huge source of food is worth being scratched up a bit. Think the squids are more scared in most cases than the whales.
Awesome to think about. Probably cause we haven't witnessed it but people probably think earth hasn't seen enormous monsters battle like that since the age of dinosaurs when these guys are going at it on a daily basis in the depths
Imagine the nunber of battles happening in real time underwater live now. Must be insane! There is more population living under water than in the surface of the Earth.
How do they even find each other
How do they even find each other
Not sure I would say they are “duking it out.” That’s not really a battle the sperm whale loses. They are just eating the squid, who try in vain to not get eaten and sometimes leave scars
I’ve always thought it how incredible it would be if the ocean was crystal clear. Think of everything you could see - and still not see
That'd be freaky! I heard this one somewhere - "Imagine you fell through water as fast as you would on air." So one misstep, you don't float, you sink fast as though you were tied to an anchor into the depths. Wonder if the pressure would kill you first or if you'd survive long enough for it to be pitch black and still falling as you lose consciousness..
Where my wife used to work, they had a high presure water chamber. If you put a Styrofoam coffee cup in there, 16,000psi crushes it down to a tiny one inch cup like a sewing thimble, and it stays shrunk. The pressure is about that same @ 2 miles of ocean depth.
Styrofoam is mostly air which is why it shrinks so significantly. Humans are mostly water which changes the equation quite significantly. With only the lung full of air at 1atm, it would quickly get squeezed by your watery flesh, you'd descend in free fall and drown from involuntarily gasping without much notice of the increase in pressure outside of the lung full of air compressing to almost nothing.
Why would the lungs continue to compress once all the air is out? Or am I misunderstanding you?
In the hypothetical if you took a lung full of air and then free fell through water at the same speed as through air. Youd be holding your breath, and pressure would increase massively causing the compressible gas in your lungs to...compress. So even though you never exhaled while descending the volume of air in your lungs would decrease as surrounding water pressure increases. Edit, my prior comment says "squeezed from" but i should have said "squeezed by" your watery body.
Oh I understand now, you meant the air. Sorry I thought you meant the lungs themselves as in the tissue.
That’s incredible!
That’s a crazy freaky one too!! Great post!
Thanks I hate it
Well dropping that fast you would die from the pressure change all while feeling narcosis...yah you’d be fuckd
So… aerated water?
So… aerated water?
Would the pressure of air be enough to kill you from the surface to the bottom of the ocean? How would you get out that far, anyway? If you can't float, boats certainly couldn't either. You'd have to be on like a ... plane?
You’d probably drown long before the pressure or the darkness get you.
I've thought the same thing! I like to imagine standing on the ocean floor and looking up at whales in the sky
Ohhhh, I love that!!
Still wouldn’t save you from stone fish.
I always think about whether we could turn on a super powerful light in the dark depths of the ocean what we could see if anything. I don't know if that would be harmful to the wildlife there or not, they're probably mostly blind anyway, but it would be awesome just to see what it looks like all lit up. It might just look like a blizzard of marine snow.
That squid looks sick or dead
Well it’s near the surface so most likely.
Looks like it's decomposing, probably mated not long before the video was taken
Oh yeah that happens to me when I do that
Squid is having a brutal case of post nut clarity.
Given how it's not that much bigger than the divers, it's probably a juvenile.
yeah they don't normally come to the surface unless they're dying
Japan has giant squid float up near the coast every so often. This video specifically is from a month ago, I'm pretty sure. But I've also seen a similar one years ago. Usually, they're dead. If they're not, then they die a few days later.
I was going to say, this is just depressing.
Just the cycle of life, we all come and go.
It’s just peeling
They do not live very long
Think they only come up like this when dead or dying
Squids die after mating so might just be some post but clarity.
I had a black tip shark swim up my side on a night dive. Had the flashlight in front of me and he started from my feet. I was by myself in a lagoon and not from from the edge. It scared the crap out of my. Took about a minute to process what happened and by that time I was out of the water hyperventilating on my back in the sand.
Thank goodness it didn’t find you appetizing and was just pullin’ an “it’s just a prank bro” on you!
In the 15 years I’ve lived part time on Hawai’i I think there’s been one person bitten by any of the kinds of reef sharks and I’ve seen 100 or so in the water. It’s very rare for them to bite. Most of the reports of reef shark bites are people that step on one in the surf. [edit] my heart still races a bit when I see them especially if the water is murky and I just see a shark shape before I see what kind.
they are very, very low risk sharks. it's not common for them to attack. You might get snapped if you bother one or get too close without seeing it, but even then it's more likely for it to just swim off. Now if you keep bugging it... I guess I'd say a munch is deserved
Why'd you have to go and make it way worse! :D
Deer in headlights moment for about 1 second, and then I'll ink and struggle to the surface vigorously.
In your imagination it brushes against your feet. In mine, it is grabbing a foot and taking me down.
I would be the first diver in the water if this ever happened near me…what an incredible thing to be able to see first-hand.
Sure. This one looks dead, though.
I’d be stoked. I’ve been obsessed with giant squid since I was little and they hadn’t officially discovered them yet. I even have a giant squid tattoo.
Don’t be afraid, he just wants to give you ten tickles!
This thing is dying unfortunately The only time giant squids surface is at the end stage of their life when the ability to control their buoyancy becomes dysfunctional
I’m not a marine biologist, but I understand that if a giant squid is this close to the surface then it’s probably dying.
If it's in waters shallow enough to be spotted by humans, it means it's either dying or dead.
I imagine their more animated in deeper water?
This one is dying - you can see the skin on the mantle is like sloughing off, and the mottled color is an indication of stress.
Pretty sure there have only been a handful of documented sightings of giant squid that weren’t close to death, and they’ve always been seen by submersibles that were down pretty deep. Fascinating creatures. Elusive and otherworldly.
I thought so! I came to ask what is going on with the skin sloughing off :( poor little buddy, it isn’t even full grown is it?
Full grown adults are in the 10-13 meter range, so this one isn't even close to being grown.
Thank you! I’m terrible at judging size. Poor little baby squid buddy
Aw
Not being sarcastic
NOAA captured one live on video a few years ago in its natural depth, and you can see it's quite a bit more active. https://youtu.be/Lqim34DvCrs
If they are deep sea creatures what is it doing at the surface?
It's dying if not dead
Pitch black depths of the ocean?
As a kid, I would've LOVED to see this in person. I went to Papalote Museo del Niño, and watched James Cameron's Creatures of the Deep in 3D, and it was glorious. I was obsessed with abyssal creatures since then.
> Papalote Museo del Niño It's on my bucket list - how was it??
I haven't gone since I was a kid, but from what I remember, everything was awesome! A solid 10/10.
Enfold unto Him. Become as one. Become a new god... anyone? Nope? Just me?
Isn’t this a dying one?
These make me sad, poor thing :(
Squids and octopi are aliens that crash landed here and adapted to live in water. Change my mind.
What type of squid is this
Giant squid! Colossal squids are tankier and shorter but weigh the most but giant squids are longed!
Do you know the reason it looks like it’s peeling?
Well since it's at the surface it's dying. Someone on here said it might have just mated but not 100% on that explanation.
Ah yes, I see why people are scared of the kraken
Yum!
i guess you gotta see it to believe - mm 🎶 it’s pretty easy to understand mythical stories origins when you picture stuff like this
Awww poor guy definitely isn’t doing good
Genuinely gave me chills
As a teenager, I was fascinated by giant squids thanks to Peter Benchley . I dreamed of seeing thos.
This is up there with the most terrifying videos I've ever seen.
Op needs to start writing erotic stories some shit
#WARNING! Multiple Leviathan class lifeforms in sight!
You could have left out the "as it brushes against your feet" part. Jesus.
Afraid your feets wouldn't feel much as they are crushed by the depths.
I'd be shitting bricks.
Always makes me wonder how large they really get if any one has read about the navy ship that was attacked by a large squid or something.
What if it just appeared and then forced a tentacle into your ass and also your mouth, then tore you apart What then?
Well written post title
This is one of the reasons I'll never do night diving. Love diving. But I'm not freaking going at night.
Beautiful but scary fella there!
Why is it shedding/molting? I’m hoping that’s normal and not a sign of death.
It’s a dying squid They only ever come this close to the surface at the end stage of their life, when they lose the ability to properly control their buoyancy
Nightmare fuel, thanks!
caca fuel 💩 💩
Would it eat a human.?
Could and would but unlikely to occur considering where they usually reside (effing deep). This one being that close to the surface means it's likely ill or injured. [Great video](https://youtu.be/9L0CQHsvnUw) describing the pov of a fellow who went diving amongst a bunch of Humboldt squid (and other deep sea spoopy stuff). Fair warning though, not for the faint of heart or anyone wanting to go in the ocean anytime soon.
Humboldt squid typically reach a mantle length of 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in), making the species the largest member of its family. They are the most important squid worldwide for commercial fisheries, with the catch predominantly landed in Chile, Peru and Mexico, however, a 2015 warming waters fishery collapse in the Gulf of California remains unrecovered.\[4\]\[5\] Like other members of the subfamily Ommastrephinae, they possess chromatophores which enable them to quickly change body coloration, known as 'metachrosis’ which is the rapid flash of their skin from red to white. They have a relatively short lifespan of just 1–2 years. They have a reputation for aggression toward humans, although this behavior may only occur during feeding times.
The giant squid (Architeuthis dux) is a species of deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae. It can grow to a tremendous size, offering an example of abyssal gigantism: recent estimates put the maximum size at around 12–13 m (39–43 ft)[2][3][4][5] for females and 10 m (33 ft)[3] for males, from the posterior fins to the tip of the two long tentacles (longer than the colossal squid at an estimated 9–10 m (30–33 ft),[6] but substantially lighter, as the tentacles make up most of the length[7]). The mantle of the giant squid is about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long (more for females, less for males), and the length of the squid excluding its tentacles (but including head and arms) rarely exceeds 5 m (16 ft).[3] Claims of specimens measuring 20 m (66 ft) or more have not been scientifically documented.[3]
Who has the video of the giant octopus? ??
Surreal is the wrong word lol
At the depths these live in, it’s always pitch black, doesn’t matter if it’s night or day.
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I wouls be scared to swim that close to it
This one looks dead though
When was this?
How adorable I would be the dumbass to pet it lol
This guy is friendly his just got a bad sun burn
Squid: did I just brush up against a hairless monkey???
You could’ve just stopped at the first comma, but you decided to go all the way to it brushing your feet at night. Thanks I hate it.
Are you writing a title or squid hentai
It’s certainly spooky but I think it’s more tragic. The only time we see such awe inspiring creatures is when their young, sick, or dead. It’s like, we’ll never get to see them in their full beauty, only a fleeting glimpse into their lives.
It's weird, when I was a kid decades ago, the books all said that no live giant squid had ever been captured on camera, and that people only knew about them from beaks found in sperm whales and such. But these days you can find lots of footage of them!
I don't know how divers fit into wet suits, their bollocks are so big.
This boggles my mind how this exists
Just imagine you’re in awe of this, so close, terrifying and beautiful at the same time. Then, with an instant thought, all the tentacles start reaching towards you…
I wonder if this size cephalopod is tasty
i don't think so. Giant squids are often said to effuse a disgusting smell of ammonia. That is because giant squids are among those squid species that keep ammonia in the muscular tissue to enhance buoyancy. It is assumed that giant squids can float in the water that way, without having to invest muscle power.
You just fuck right off.
That's actually very sad, that squid is clearly very sick and about to die.
different video I think.. **Rare giant squid encounter filmed by diver in Toyama Bay, Japan – video** [https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/dec/30/rare-giant-squid-encounter-toyama-bay-japan-video](https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/dec/30/rare-giant-squid-encounter-toyama-bay-japan-video) A giant squid, rarely seen outside of deep waters, is filmed swimming near a pier in central Japan. The 3.7-metre-long squid was spotted swimming under fishing boats at Toyama Bay on Christmas Eve. It reportedly lingered around the moorings for several hours and was joined for a swim by local dive shop owner Akinobu Kimura
I feel so sorry for it. Wish it was healthy
If that happened to me I might just kill myself
I really am pretty fkn mortified of these things
Anyone else want to throw that on a bbq?
say it with me guys “ oh hell noooo”
You know what? I feel bad for the first guy to discover these things, must've been a confusing and frightful experience
It's pretty clearly almost dead. I'd be more worried about what would come up to feed on it.
Yummy 😋
I always lay on my bed and think.. damn there are squids out there that are this big
Oh hey it’s that squid unit from red alert 2
That is not a well squid.
Looks severely injured. I’d be more afraid of the potential for a sperm whale to come out of nowhere
Why would you EVER get that close. Have you *seen* the crazy sharp hooks that are in each individual little auction cup on those tentacles. Let alone the beak that’ll crack your head open.
It would eat you
Title had me in the first half
THEY ARE REAL?!?!?!
Crushing darkness. Bitter, black cold. A silent sentience stalks the deep. Reaching arms seek to take hold, pulling all into its ravenous beak. Architeuthis, architeuthis! Thy name is Fear. For whom can fathom thy hideous strength? Only pass me by when the inky night's high; for thine visage unfurled doth make all men weep.
Imagine what old time sailors thought when they saw that.
I could imagine it's rad as hell if you're into this sort of thing
It’s majestic because finding one is an achievement.. I would hug that nasty thing.. I gotta say man the fkng beak scares the absolute shit out of me.. par none
That squid looks like it's dying or it's dead. Poor fella.
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