Giant Squid Photographed Live

I saw one of those specials on Discovery a while back, where that guy that's always searching for the giant squids went diving off the coast of South America. They sent him down in a shark cage, in the middle of this squid feeding frenzy. One of the squids came into the cage to investigate, and promptly began attacking this guy without provocation. This was a 3-4ft long squid by the way. When they pulled him back up, the local told him that to fall into the water during one of these feeding frenzies would mean death. It was compared to falling in a river full of pirahna, or getting caught in a shark feeding frenzy.

Now if one of the little ones is that ferocious, I would hate to see how mean the large ones get.
 
Sperm whales, which measure up to 50 feet long, have been known to eat giant squid. On some occasions, giant squid eat whales.

I prefer not to mess with them, if possible.

This link provides more info:

http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/squid.htm

This in particular got my attention,

How big can a squid get? Estimates based on peices of carcasses found in the belly's of sperm whales range up to one hundred feet. One unconfirmed story, though, suggests they might get even larger. One night during World War II a British Admiralty trawler was lying off the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean. One of the crew, A. G. Starkey, was up on deck, alone, fishing, when he saw something in the water:

"As I gazed, fascinated, a circle of green light glowed in my area of illumination. This green unwinking orb I suddenly realized was an eye. The surface of the water undulated with some strange disturbance. Gradually I realized that I was gazing at almost point-black range at a huge squid." Starkey walked the length the of the ship finding the tail at one end and the tentacles at the other. The ship was over one hundred and seventy five feet long.
 
I felt bad that the poor squid last tentacles!! That shouldn't have happened. Poor thing. That really upset me!!
 
I read that the japanese are now trying to clone a Mammoth from some siberian DNA. But they will only publicize it once the mammoths are OK and walking around healthily.

Does anyone know more about this?
 
I was also amazed and interested by this. I cant believe the kraken is real! what else is real that we all assume are made up fairy tales or sailors stories?!
 
I'm thinking that the squid will make it even with the one tentacle. All it has to do is hold something still long enough to get the other arms around it, and start taking bites. Did the article mention if they did any tests to try and determine how old the squid was? I don't imagine that they would grow that quickly..
 
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