Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" Filmed at Drilling Site
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Uploaded by RandomVideoDump on Nov 29, 2008
A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, a remote control submersible's camera has captured an eerie surprise: an alien-like, long-armed, and—strangest of all—"elbowed" Magnapinna squid. (See photos of Magnapinna.)
In a brief video from the dive recently obtained by National Geographic News, one of the rarely seen squid loiters above the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico on November 11, 2007.
The clip—from a Shell oil company ROV (remotely operated vehicle)—arrived after a long, circuitous trip through oil-industry in-boxes and other email accounts.
"Perdido ROV Visitor, What Is It?" the email's subject line read—Perdido being the name of a Shell-owned drilling site. Located about 200 miles (320 kilometers) off Houston, Texas (Gulf of Mexico map), Perdido is one of the world's deepest oil and gas developments.
The video clip shows the screen of the ROV's guidance monitor framed with pulsing inputs of time and positioning data.
In a few seconds of jerky camerawork, the squid appears with its huge fins waving like elephant ears and its remarkable arms and tentacles trailing from elbow-like appendages.
Despite the squid's apparent unflappability on camera, Magnapinna, or "big fin," squid remain largely a mystery to science.
ROVs have filmed Magnapinna squid a dozen or so times in the Gulf and the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.
The recent video marks the first sighting of a Magnapinna at an oil development, though experts don't think the squid's presence there has any special scientific significance.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/98196571.html
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@jasminetigerlily1 Deep fry it. Tempura. Stab it with chopsticks and wrap the tentacles around the sticks and swallow it whole. There are many ways to eat squid.
KenshinKunsinagi 1 month ago
how can people eat squid? eeeewwwwwwwwwwwww
jasminetigerlily1 1 month ago
Like A Boss
XxSkrawneyxX 3 months ago
Aaaaahhh!!!! Cthulhu Baby!!! D:
DecrepidArtist 3 months ago
Called a "BigFin Squid" there supposedly very rare
curlyfryguy505 4 months ago
I wonder if it's good eating...
SIM2402 4 months ago
Elbow squid, best squid
grimnub 4 months ago
Its from hentai
518735 5 months ago
given that this video came from shell, this species probably no longer exists.
reinux 5 months ago
It's a "bigfin" squid, and it's fishing. Seriously, they just dangle their tentacles and wait for some dumb-ass fish to swim by and snatches them up. I wonder if it throws the little ones back.
zacman250 6 months ago