450kg squid caught

Post by **bikkeldesnikkel** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:46 pm

wow, makes me wonder how big these squid can grow.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_ ... al_squid_4

Post by **o'dium** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:48 pm

I'd say as big as 450kg, if not bigger.

Post by **bikkeldesnikkel** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:51 pm

o'dium wrote:I'd say as big as 450kg, if not bigger.

hmm, im not so sure about that.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:57 pm

okay, we need a bigger deep-fryer

Post by **R00k** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:01 pm

good god what a beast

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:03 pm

Keith Olbermann made a good point though: How fucking rare are these things really? There's one on the news every other day.

Post by **surgeon62** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:39 pm

SplishSplash wrote:okay, we need a bigger deep-fryer

From the article...

"If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires..."

Maybe a Jacuzzi-sized fryer!

Post by **andyman** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:28 pm

SplishSplash wrote:Keith Olbermann made a good point though: How fucking rare are these things really? There's one on the news every other day.

Thats what i was thinking. Maybe this is a cry for help from the squids?

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:30 pm

The first attempts to build a bridgehead

Post by **R00k** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:38 pm

SplishSplash wrote:Keith Olbermann made a good point though: How fucking rare are these things really? There's one on the news every other day.

There are 3 classes of these things according to size. I think these colossal squid are pretty rare to find.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:54 pm

R00k wrote: There are 3 classes of these things according to size.

Haha these sound scary as fuck:

Wikipedia wrote:Humboldt Squid are carnivores that move in schools of up to 1200 individuals. They swim at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour (24 km/h, 13 knots) propelled by water ejected through a hyponome (siphon) and by two diamond shaped fins. Their tentacles bear barbed suckers with which they grasp prey and drag it towards a mouth containing a large, sharp beak.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:59 pm

for a chilling and fascinating insight into the humboldt squid, read this:

http://www.deeperblue.net/printarticle.php/696/11

The beak of a Dosidicus gigas is large and very powerful. The edges are as sharp as trauma shears and are capable of gouging out an orange-sized chunk of flesh, regardless of tissue make up. I have seen a five-foot Dosidicus gigas bite through the thick bone of a tuna head, skull and all, with minimal effort removing fist-sized portions with each bite.

To hold their prey item firmly, this squid has about 2,000 suction disks; each lined with chitenous ring teeth. Chitin is a material similar to that of fingernails and that of beetle exoskeletons (A polysaccharide). These chitenous ring teeth are needle sharp and very effective. Every suction disk has up to 36 of these teeth. That means a Humboldt squid employs as many as 72,000 teeth upon its hapless victims. Prey has little chance of escaping a Humboldt squid’s deadly embrace.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:03 pm

o'dium wrote:I'd say as big as 450kg, if not bigger.

that sounds rather fucking light, considering this:

i would have thought at least a few tonnes

Post by **Survivor** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:06 pm

This

Humboldt Squid are carnivores that move in schools of up to 1200 individuals. They swim at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour (24 km/h, 13 knots)

with this

Every suction disk has up to 36 of these teeth. That means a Humboldt squid employs as many as 72,000 teeth upon its hapless victims.

equals something I sure as hell wouldn't want to encounter on anything but land.

Post by **Captain** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:08 pm

It's the Kraken.

Post by **Survivor** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:10 pm

You only like the kraken because you think it wants to tentacle-rape you mazda.

Post by **Captain** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:11 pm

Post by **H.Reaper** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:52 pm

There's no much pics of it...

Post by **bikkeldesnikkel** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:28 pm

[xeno]Julios wrote:
o'dium wrote:I'd say as big as 450kg, if not bigger.
that sounds rather fucking light, considering this:

i would have thought at least a few tonnes

almost half of it is just tentacles, the one caught was about 10m and the bus is comprised of heavier stuff than squid tissue. sounds reasonable to me.

Post by JB » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:43 pm

wasnt there a news report a few years ago about those big whales having huge sucker prints on them?

I heard a while back that the "collosol" squids eat blue whales :s

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:51 pm

bikkeldesnikkel wrote: almost half of it is just tentacles, the one caught was about 10m and the bus is comprised of heavier stuff than squid tissue. sounds reasonable to me.

but adult sperm whales weigh up to 50 thousand kilograms...

something just seems off here

but you're proly right:

6. Our arch nemesis is the evil sperm whale. While the largest male sperm whales and giant squid grow to about the same length (18m or 60 feet), sperm whales weigh up to 52 metric tons, while giant squid weigh only one ton in comparison. This is because most of our squiddy length is made up by our tentacles. It is commonly thought that sperm whales are our predators... however, they are often found with circular sucker scars on the skin around their heads. Yeah, we bad.

http://www.squidsquid.com/reasons-to-fe ... quid.shtml

Post by **plained** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:24 pm

can you imagine how cool that guy would'ave been had he released that squid and not told nobody

Post by **R00k** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:32 pm

I don't think cool is the word you're looking for - since he wouldn't be able to tell anybody about it if he let it go.

Post by **plained** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:33 pm

clueless

Post by **Tsakali_** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:46 pm

not to mention the obvious differences in mass/volume between the 2