Showing posts with label Giant Squid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Giant Squid. Show all posts
Monday, March 18, 2019
A Japanese Man Lucked Out in His Chance Encounter with a Giant Squid in the Relatively Shallow Waters of Toyama Bay in Japan
Opportunities to see giant squid in open waters are extremely rare. Although these mammoth sea creatures live in all of the world’s oceans, they prefer to make their homes in deep waters, out of sight of divers. Akinobu Kimura lucked out in his chance encounter with a giant squid in the relatively shallow waters of Toyama Bay in Japan.
Kimura says that his interest in the creature pushed aside any fear, despite the squid’s bursts of ink and its attempts to ensnare him in its enormous tentacles. Although the squid did not injure the diver, he said that the squid’s strong suckers caused him some pain.
The video shows the stunning sea monster’s bright red and white coloring. While the 12-foot-long squid seems huge, it actually is a fairly small representative of its species; giant squid can grow to as long as 43 feet.
Kimura helped it find its way back into the deeper ocean waters, but it remains unclear why or how the squid ended up in the bay. Kimura stated that it did not appear injured and may have been a juvenile that got lost.
Sightings of live giant squid are so rare that the first photographs of them weren’t taken until 2004, and the first filming of a live giant squid swimming in the ocean didn’t occur until 2012, according to CNN. Divers spent nearly 300 hours searching for the elusive animals in the Pacific Ocean. The filming was a first step in learning more about the nature of one of the deep sea’s most mysterious creatures.
He was even able to capture it on video.
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Rare Sighting: Giant Squid Spotted Close to the Surface of Toyama Bay in Central Japan
It isn't every day that a mystery from the deep swims into
plain sight. But on Christmas Eve, spectators on a pier in Toyama Bay in
central Japan were treated to a rare sighting of a giant squid.
The creature swam under fishing boats and close to the
surface of Toyama Bay, better known for its firefly squid, and reportedly hung
around the bay for several hours before it was ushered back to open water.
It was captured on video by a submersible camera, and even
joined by a diver, Akinobu Kimura, owner of Diving Shop Kaiyu, who swam in
close proximity to the red-and-white real-life sea monster.
"My curiosity was way bigger than fear, so I jumped
into the water and go close to it," he told CNN.
"This squid was not damaged and looked lively,
spurting ink and trying to entangle his tentacles around me. I guided the squid
toward to the ocean, several hundred meters from the area it was found in, and
it disappeared into the deep sea."
Yuki Ikushi, the curator of Uozu Aquarium in Uozu, Toyama,
told CNN that there were 16 reports of Architeuthis squid trapped by fishing
nets last season, and this one is the first sighting this season, which runs
from November to March.
"We might see more in this season, but it's very rare
for them to be found swimming around (the fishing boats') moorings."
The Toyama squid is a fairly small example of the species,
estimated at around 3.7 meters (12.1 feet) long, and may be a juvenile. Giant
squid are thought to grow as large as 13 meters (43 feet) long. They typically
inhabit deep waters, and it is unclear why this one wandered into the bay.
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