# The Day of the Squid **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 23, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379 "2006-12-23T21:08:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379/1 "2006-12-23T21:08:29Z")
Wow that photograph is so incredible. [Researchers capture Giant Squid](http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/22/giant.squid.ap/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379/2 "2006-12-23T21:10:49Z")
I watched the video as well. But why couldn’t they just have photographed/filmed the creature without killing it? ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379/3 "2006-12-23T23:53:45Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages] I watched the video as well. But why couldn’t they just have photographed/filmed the creature without killing it? [/QUOTE] > [@](#): > > The captured squid was caught using a smaller type of squid as bait, and was pulled into a research vessel “after putting up quite a fight,” Kubodera said. > > “It took two people to pull it in, and they lost it once, which might have caused the injuries that killed it,” he said. They probably wanted it to live, as they would have been able to gather more useful information from a live specimin. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379/4 "2006-12-24T00:34:41Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages] why couldn’t they just have photographed/filmed the creature without killing it? [/QUOTE] They also do research on Whales. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379/5 "2006-12-24T03:12:18Z")
Caputuring a (presumably) uncooperative giant squid, and keeping it alive on a boat sounds like quite the task. I’d be impressed… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379/6 "2006-12-24T03:57:46Z")
From the [CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/22/giant.squid.ap/index.html) article: “It took two people to pull it in, and they lost it once, which might have caused the injuries that killed it,” he said. I presume that means they killed it during the capture, before they attempted to bring it aboard. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379/7 "2006-12-24T04:01:13Z")
Wow. That video will give me nightmare-fodder for weeks. In doing some cursory Googling, I found this curious page dedicated to all things, uh, squiddy: [Squid](http://squid.us/). (What’s the adjectival form of “squid”?) And don’t miss the heartwarming seasonal carol [The 13 Days of Cephalopodmas](http://www.cephalopodmas.org/carols/13daysof.php), via [cephalopodmas.org](http://cephalopodmas.org). Cephalopodmas? Man, there is a Web site for _everything_. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379/8 "2006-12-24T04:12:48Z")
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t really find it all that impressive. The squid does not really seem all that big in the video or the pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379/9 "2006-12-24T04:55:37Z")
From the article: > [@](#): > > The squid, a female, was not fully grown and was relatively small by giant squid standards. The longest one on record is 60 feet, he said. So that may be why it wasn’t so impressive. The older ones are probably the jaw-droppers. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379/10 "2006-12-24T05:14:31Z")
[QUOTE=Pixiesnix] From the article: So that may be why it wasn’t so impressive. The older ones are probably the jaw-droppers. [/QUOTE] From the CNN link: “The squid, which measured about 24-feet long, died while it was being caught.” I’ve lived in efficency apartments shorter than that and trailers it could wrap itself around a’la 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, dish sized eyes peering at me through a window typing on the 'Dope. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-of-the-squid/385379/11 "2006-12-24T05:22:04Z")
> [@](#): > > **carnivorousplant** wrote: > dish sized eyes peering at me through a window typing on the 'Dope. Note to self: Do not write bad things about squid. :looks around fearfully: