Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists

[Mr. Anderson]

Yeah, seems as though they're waiting on some DNA testing - there was another giant octopus found in Florida in the 1890s! Talk about rare........

Where's Jules Verne when you need him.....

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[FriarTuck]

I haven't seen the movie yet... Could that thing be Nemo?

 

[jayscheuerle]

King Neptune's lugie?

 

[mcrain]

Giant sea creatures

The military rarely speaks about their nuclear submarines or high end Aegis cruisers, and they speak even less about the sonar domes on those ships. In fact, they rarely ever show them or pictures of them, but I saw a show about the giant squids, and they had an interview with a Navy guy who was talking about how on occassion, they find squid "claws" and sucker damage on the sonar domes of the subs and occassionally the ships. I thought that was fascinating that a squid might have the moxie to attack a ship as large as a nuclear submarine!

 

[jayscheuerle]

Re: Giant sea creatures

Originally posted by mcrain
I thought that was fascinating that a squid might have the moxie to attack a ship as large as a nuclear submarine!

Maybe it was a female looking for a mate!

 

[topicolo]

Can't mess with a giant, floating, metal dildo

 

[jbomber]

Re: Giant sea creatures

Originally posted by mcrain
The military rarely speaks about their nuclear submarines or high end Aegis cruisers, and they speak even less about the sonar domes on those ships. In fact, they rarely ever show them or pictures of them, but I saw a show about the giant squids, and they had an interview with a Navy guy who was talking about how on occassion, they find squid "claws" and sucker damage on the sonar domes of the subs and occassionally the ships. I thought that was fascinating that a squid might have the moxie to attack a ship as large as a nuclear submarine!

that

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cool

as

hell!

 

[Wardofsky]

This was on the news a while ago but still is really interesting.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_286217,00040001.htm

There really are some amazing creatures, I honestly could not believe my eyes.

Here are some of the images:

 

[Wardofsky]

Oh BTW, this is from the NORFANZ sea expodition.

 

[Wardofsky]

The finned octopus:

 

[MacBandit]

Re: Giant sea creatures

Originally posted by mcrain
The military rarely speaks about their nuclear submarines or high end Aegis cruisers, and they speak even less about the sonar domes on those ships. In fact, they rarely ever show them or pictures of them, but I saw a show about the giant squids, and they had an interview with a Navy guy who was talking about how on occassion, they find squid "claws" and sucker damage on the sonar domes of the subs and occassionally the ships. I thought that was fascinating that a squid might have the moxie to attack a ship as large as a nuclear submarine!

I'll have to ask my dad about that. He was in the Nuclear Sub program in the 60's when it was just starting. When he was in school the Thresher sank (One of the first Nukies) and they came in and asked the class if anyone wanted out because of it. He stayed.

One of the hypothesis about Giant squid is they hook on to large whales for transportation. It could just be that they look at the sub as another form of transport. Also I would highly doubt that something as large as a giant squid could get anywhere near a modern sub without them knowing it. They are probably just unable to speak of it as the accuracy of sub sonar is highly secretive as is everything else about them. My dad after being out for 30 years just recently started speaking to me about some of the things they did as apparently some of the stuff has been declassified.