What khukuri for a GIANT SQUID?!?!?!?

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Yvsa

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What khukuri for a GIANT SQUID?!?!? No, Seriously!!!!
Can you dive to 1,000 -2,000 feet deep and still be able to swing a khuk and if so what khuk would you take? ;) :p

Perchance did any of the rest of y'all catch the special on the Discovery Channel a few nights ago about the Japanese scientist finally capturing pictures of the GIANT SQUID?!?!? :eek:
And for icing on the cake a piece of tentacle still alive about 20 feet long?!?!?!?:thumbup: :cool: :D
Enough time has passed that I've forgotten exactly where they were off the southern coast of Japan or another island owned by Japan but there was an underwater trench that was really deep and the best I recall there was a drop off that went even deeper.
They tired for a couple of days without any success other than a few fragments of giant squid brought up by the sperm whales that were hunting them that proved the scientists were in the right spot.
They dropped a line overboard with large hooks on it at 1,000, 1,500, and 2,000 feet IIRC along with some special digital underwater cameras and strobe lights. They finally got a bite on one of the hooks and got pix of the giant squid that got hung up on one of the hooks and was trying to get loose.
Magical pictures of an animal that had never before been photographed in the wild or alive for that matter.
Finally the giant squid was able to tear itself loose from the hook and the line was brought up with the tentacle still attached. When they got it on board the quarter to half dollar sized suckers were still active and had a row of bony teeth around each one.
Absolutely fascinating!!!!
I've been wondering ever since if they cut a piece off the tentacle and fried it up for their dinner.
Lord knows there was enough of it to feed a lot of people.:thumbup: :cool: :D ;)

Can you imagine seeing one of these animals up close and personal? Its eyes are supposed to be as large as saucers and the beak isn't no little thing either!
They had examples taken from sperm whale stomachs that one side of the beak was as large as a man's fist!
I set enthralled almost the whole hour watching the program and recommend it highly if you can watch for it to come on again!!!!
 
we can depend on the japanese to eat them all if it is any way edible. if it might be poisonous (like fugu), they will probably charge more and make them extinct faster. all in the name of science tho, which makes it ok. they may keep a few for zoo's so they can torture game show contestants with the suckers......
 
You'd need to develope a khuk spear gun. Does HI sell those???
 
A lot of deep squid are full of ammonia, and at least one species of giant squid is confirmed to be so. That'd make it pretty much inedible to the Japanese, maybe even the Chinese too.
 
Yeah, I saw that.

It was a good, informative show.

Looked like you'd need something fast, judging by those photo's. Did you see that thing strike? :eek:
 
My pick would be the BirGorkha Kothimoda . If I'm going to die I want to go out in style :))
 
Yvsa said:
They tired for a couple of days without any success other than a few fragments of giant squid brought up by the sperm whales that were hunting them...
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That just goes to show what I've always said: sperm whales are badass. :p

I'd take a 25" Foxy Folly or YCS. More hydrodynamic. :thumbup: Hell, who am I kidding? I wouldn't be there in the first place! :D :foot:
 
Aaargh, ye say them lubbers dwell in the neighborhood of two hundred fathoms? Don't need any khukuri, just a note in a weighted bottle tossed overboard. The note would read;

Dear Mister Giant Squid,

I ain't got time to trouble myself to swim way down yonder, so you just consider your slimey arse whipped, and have a nice day.

Regards,
Thumbcutter Goodbeard
 
PZ93C said:
Yeah, I saw that.

It was a good, informative show.

Looked like you'd need something fast, judging by those photo's. Did you see that thing strike? :eek:
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I sure did!!!!:eek: Kinda reminded me of the time when my grandpa saw his first black bear in the wild in Jellystone National Park years and years ago.:D
There were several bear around and people were mingling in and amongst them. Suddenly something startled one of the bears and it ran about 30 feet and 20-30 feet up a big pine tree almost before you could blink your eyes! My grandpa stood there with his jaw on the ground and said, "ConDamn! I would'a never belived that if I hadn't seen it with my very own eyes!!!!:eek: :D

Sylvrfalcn said:
Aaargh, ye say them lubbers dwell in the neighborhood of two hundred fathoms? Don't need any khukuri, just a note in a weighted bottle tossed overboard. The note would read;

Dear Mister Giant Squid,

I ain't got time to trouble myself to swim way down yonder, so you just consider your slimey arse whipped, and have a nice day.

Regards,
Thumbcutter Goodbeard
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Funny you should say that Sarge.:) I've slowly been reading over a years worth of, "Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact." the last while and am about to get caught up as I think I'm finally on my last one.:thumbup:
One of the stories I read were about the giant squid and the sperm whales.
With the moratorium on whale hunting it seems the sperm whale of all the species that were hunted was the species making the fastest comeback.
And there were increasing signs of battles with giant squid and finally with some odd but distinct markings on the sides of the sperm whales from the squids suckers.:o
I won't get into all of the inuendos of the story but will say that at the end there was finally a message clear enough to read and understand.
It said, "What have we done to you for you to quit killing our enemies who hunt and eat us.":(

Not the first story in the over a years worth of books that dwelled on the subject of sentient beings being eaten by what was thought a superior and primitive sentient race.

But by finally getting pix of this very elusive animal and proving that it does indeed exist and live in the depths of the sea it suddenly doesn't mean all of the age old stories about the old wood ships being attacked by such a beast weren't true or at least based on fact ainnit? ;)
 
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

From Amazon.co.uk
The swashbuckler genre bumped into science fiction in 1954 for one of Hollywood's great entertainments. The Jules Verne story of adventure under the sea was Walt Disney's magnificent debut into live-action films. A professor (Paul Lukas) seeks the truth about a legendary sea monster in the years just after the Civil War. When his ship is sunk, he, his aide (Peter Lorre), and a harpoon master (Kirk Douglas) survive to discover that the monster is actually a metal submarine run by Captain Nemo (James Mason). Along with the rollicking adventure, it's fun to see the future technology that Verne dreamed up in his novel, including diving equipment and sea farming. The film's physical prowess is anchored by the Nautilus, an impressive full-scale gothic submarine complete with red carpet and pipe organ. In the era of big sets, 20,000 Leagues set a precedent for films shot on the water and deservedly won Oscars for art direction and special effects. Lost in the inventiveness of the film and great set pieces including a giant squid attack are two great performances. Mason is the perfect Nemo, taut and private, clothed in dark fabric that counters the Technicolor dreamboat that is the beaming red-and-white-stripe-shirted Kirk Douglas as the heroic Ned Land. The film works as peerless family adventure nearly half a century later. --Doug Thomas



THIS I remember. Now, why did I go into the kitchen?
 
Giant Squid + Ammonia.....Hmmmm...Ammonia = NH3...+ Acetic Acid......I GOT IT! I GOT IT! Giant Squid are full of Piss and Vinegar!!!!
 
I remember following that incident with extreme interest when it was first reported. There's been talk of monster squids for centuries but a shortage of hard evidence. The evidence is beginning to appear.

The ancient maps say, "Here be monsters," and we tend to laugh at such things in our more enlightened society today. When those old sailors saw monsters, though...well, perhaps they really did see monsters.
 
If I got into it with a giant squid I would totally just give it a headbutt. And then a couple of Karate chops for good measure. If I had to use a knife I would just use my Hideaway because anything bigger just wouldn't be fair. Though it might be difficult to pick a fight with an animal that has only been photographed once. (And poorly at that.) I would probably have to bring his mother into it.
 
Yvsa said:
What khukuri for a GIANT SQUID?!?!?
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I've given the matter some thought, Yvsa, and I believe that I have an answer.

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Some accounts have giant squid attacking on the surface and being driven off with cutlasses, and oars. So it looks like Dave Rishar has that covered with the khuk as big as an oar. If the squid stays home, Sarge has the answer. The Cantina is squid ready.
 
Josh Feltman said:
Don't forget the Squid-B-Gone. It works better than that stuff you put on snails in the garden!
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I'll have to try some next time I visit my folks in Jacksonville, Florida. Between Mayport and NAS Jax, the place is plumb crawling with "squids" (apologies to my USN buds, just couldn't resist) ;)

No one need convince me that real, no kidding, monsters dwell in the deep, and in the remote places of terra firma as well. But some of the first hand accounts from back in the day are cause for little more than a good chuckle. One such recorded 16th century "sighting" (can't remember now if Spanish or French), along the coast of northeast Florida, depicts a horrible beast with snarling jaws, a hairless tail, and apparently given to the bizarre conduct of transporting it's young clinging to its back. Y'all want to guess what that poor, frightened, explorer had observed in all it's terrifying hideousness? Only land critter living in northeast Florida with a hairless tail and toting it's young on it's back is this booger.

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They're dayumed ugly, I'll grant you that, and one that's snarling and hissing can be pretty intimidating, but come now 16th century dude, you call that a monster? :rolleyes:

Sarge
 
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