Giant "Long Arm" Squid Live

This is Aaron Gregory, singer/guitarist of the band Giant Squid. I also work at the AQUARIUM OF THE BAY in San Francisco as a profesional diver. Today (6-27-08) a man who has been installing video equipment at the aquarium for the last several days, popped into our husbandry office and asked if we could possibly identify a "creature" that his friend, who works on an oil rig, caught on tape from an ROV. He described a manta ray like thing with 30ft tentacles!! He wasn't far off as you can see for your self. It doesn't get much more alien than this. I just identified it as belonging to the species Magnapinna, or Big Fin squid, though this one is more commonly known as the Long Arm Squid. They get as big as 5 meters! Take special note of the depth! 7828ft. Enjoy everyone!!

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[KizNarl]

I've seen enough Hentai to know where this is going.

[manifestgtr]

what's ironic is that that squids probably like "whoa...what's that weird lookin thing"

that's a lot of calamari though

[StolenFridge]

Pass the controller, bro.

[Zantaer]

@rainman1344 Yeah, but if he hadn't put that in the description, as far as I know it's a tiny little squid with 6 inch long tentacles that is very close to a small camera.

[rainman1344]

@Zantaer Ok he estimated each arm to be 30ft in length

lets assume you are 6' tall for hte sake of rounding up

So thats like laying down 5 clones of yourself head to toe length wise

and thats just hte tenticle, the head looks to be an extra 10ft maybe 15ft

soo 6-8 6foot persons laying down touchin head to feet lengthwise

[Rifetrey]

nope nope nope nope nope nope

[thispoorguy]

War of the Worlds

[SamND1967]

@ofakar Why's that?

[ofakar]

it somehow made me think of mgs4

[Zantaer]

I wish there was a better size reference

[M4D5K1L2]

That's a fuckin alien!!

[GasperHabjanic]

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