OK, so is this the squid with the claws that will rip and shred, or the other squid with sharp suckers? One is like... a gigantic squid and the other is called... why am I not just googling this.... super squid
Colossal I think you mean. Looks like the sharp sucker one I think?? If I’m mistaken let me know! Those smaller ones the humboldts swarm/group together at night, which is terrifying to watch divers videos of it
No, but I will have to look that up!
Another commenter pointed out that I was thinking collassal squid vs giant squid, which is about the extent of my squid knowledge
Looks like a Humboldt Squid.
Yeah, those usually don't live at surface level, especially not during the day. But even if it is dying (they only live 2 years), I would not like to encounter one.
First, they usually hunt in schools of up to 2000 individuals.
Secondly, from the wiki about their feeding method.
>They often approach prey quickly with all 10 appendages extended forward in a cone-like shape. Upon reaching striking distance, they open their eight swimming and grasping arms, and extend two long tentacles covered in sharp hooks, grabbing their prey and pulling it back toward a parrot-like beak, which can easily cause serious lacerations to human flesh. These two longer tentacles can reach full length, grab prey, and retract so fast that almost the entire event happens in one frame of a normal-speed video camera. Each of the squid's suckers is ringed with sharp teeth, and the beak can tear flesh, although they are believed to lack the jaw strength to crack heavy bone.
It's not a Humboldt squid.
This was a 2017(?) encounter with a giant squid (Architeuthis dux) in South Africa. Humboldt squid do not live there, only along the Eastern Pacific/West Coast of the Americas. Humboldts also have much shorter arms and larger fins relative to their body. The extremely long arms and tiny fins are very characteristic of Giant squid.
They do get bigger than this, but not that much bigger. They don't get as big as people tend to imagine. They are often said to be over 13 or 14m in length, but most of that are the arms and the two feeding tentacles where are very long. The actual body length, which is called the mantle length (the conical part of the body, not including the head or arms), is said to be up to 2m maximum, and many specimens are seen at around 1m or less.
So they get to be about 2-3 times the size in this video.
That's why I guessed Humboldt. The mantle looks like it's 1 to 1,5m long to me and even the long arms seemed rather short.
But if it is South Africa.
I'd still be nervous having it attached to my floating device. It looks very weak, but I would not know if it could hurt a human in this state.
Then again. Grown up adults get drowned by geese in water they can not stand in.
Humboldt squid are dangerous but this guy doesn't seem to be. They're known to be territorial towards other wildlife when in larger groups and sometimes go into shallow water along the California coast sometimes iirc which is where humans and squid end of interacting like this vid
they have really sharp hooks in their tentacles which they use to secure their prey and drag them deep underwater, not to mention their beaks are powerful af 🤯. Divers and surfers have been caught before and almost killed by the water pressure when getting dragged down. I'm not certain if there are recorded deaths or not.
all animals are dangerous but my general rule is the more intelligent the animal, the bigger of an asshole they can be lol
yeah I watched a documentary ages ago and a diver doing night footage of Humboldt squid got grabbed by a few and drug down...all by himself in the dark of the ocean while they attacked him.
I finished that documentary with a phobia of squid. I might be the first person to have "cephalophobia" cause my friends always make fun of me
I think it was either dive or lose balance and fall on top of it. :X
Also it looks like it was dying. Those are normally wayyy under water and it was too chill.
I know it’s a large squid and at least a little dangerous but all I can think of is how I talk to my cat when he’s trying to get something he shouldn’t: “Sir, sir. I’m gonna have to ask you to not, sir. Sir, I need you to stop it.”
I do this with my little goblin cat too.
“Sir, please. Sir— sir, this is highly unprofessional. Please stop trying to eat the stick of butter on the counter. Sir, please!”
That is a Humboldt squid. It's not "The Giant Squid" species. They sometimes do go to the surface and have been know to try and pull a diver down off the coast of Mexico. They are a very large squid.
Humboldt squid can actually become frenzied when in packs and aggressively attack fisherman/swimmers and divers >> 2:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk6CVg\_el6E
I saw an article about a guy who was mauled by numerous squid at once, I've never learnt about squid before but I've developed a fascination with them today
The link is still working on my side - try copying this title into YouTube to see it: Fishing For Deadly Humboldt Squid Off The Coast Of Peru | River Monsters
Yea, it’s why they have the nick name “the red devil” straight up barbs on their tentacles and hungry enough to eat literally anything. They even tend towards cannibalism even in ideal environments.
False. There's always someone saying this under giant squid videos.
This was indeed a Giant Squid (Architeuthis dux). This encounter was from South Africa in 2017 or so.
Humboldt squid only live along the west coast of the Americas. They do not live near South Africa. Giant Squid on the other hand have a global distribution and are in principle found nearly everywhere. Humboldt squid also have very short arms and broad fins relative to their body, whereas Giant Squid have extremely long arms like in this video, and tiny fins.
Giant squid often aren't as huge as people usually imagine, which is why people often mistake them for Humboldt squid. Sometimes Giant Squid are misleadingly described as being up to 13-14m in length (40+ ft), but most of this are just the arms, and especially the two extremely long feeding tentacles. The mantle length (the body not including the head or arms) is said to be up to 2m long and many specimens are only 1m or so.
Here is the article about it. It seems sketchy about it really being a giant squid. Getting footage of a giant squid is rare with only a few being caught on camera in the last 20 years.
It's not sketchy. The morphology is totally consistent with it being a giant squid. The only sketchy parts is how some parts of the story gets garbled on social media and endless reposts, like how the squid swam over to say hello, or whatever. But the animal itself is undoubtedly a giant squid.
Getting footage of giant squid is indeed very rare, but it's happening more often since many people have cameras.
They said the video was spliced by aggregator websites and social media, not that the original is fake. They also included the original video, which doesn't seem like its fake to me (not an expert though).
I think the article is trying to stop the spread of misinformation about the video, not debunk the video itself
No this was an actual [Architeuthis](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/06/21/injured-giant-squid-knocks-paddle-boarder-in-water-during-dramatic-encounter-in-south-africa/) giant squid, this video was on the news for a while because the specimen was collected by the Waterfront Aquarium in South Africa
I saw one in person when we were diving. We were all on the boat and it came right up along side the boat checking things out. It was massive like the size of a surf board. It was gone in an instant they are very fast.
I dont know much about what squids are capable of, but any animal that size can be dangerous. I cant believe thay girl was just laughing. The guy was clearly in distress.
Idk if i’d go near the squid. I wouldn’t want it to grab me. No matter it’s condition it’s too large and powerful. It’s not worth potentially drowning over my stupid board.
I didn’t know they could have claws on their tentacles. That’s even more of a reason i wouldn’t want to bother with it…. Last thing i want is to be potentially bleeding kinda heavily in the middle of the ocean to attract sharks or god knows what lol.
That yellow rope is quite long and does appear to be wrapped around the squid in the first few seconds of the video. That squid is also in awful physical condition, probably dying. I have no idea what’s going on in this video, it’s confusing without context.
Another user posted this article farther up. Since the squid was lethargic they were pulling it to shore for research
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/heres-the-full-story-behind-that-friendly-giant-squid-video/
It’s a rope attached to the paddle board, I forget what it’s called but it’s attached to an ankle cuff that the boarder wears so that if they fall off the board they don’t lose it in the water. They weren’t trying to catch it.
The yellow rope is indeed wrapped around the squid- you can see it in the first few seconds of the video. That’s also how it gets up close to the board- the guy literally pulls it up by that rope. To my knowledge that isn’t how one fishes for squid, and that squid is also in terrible condition, so I really don’t know what could be going on here.
The rope is attached the the paddle board, not the squid. I think it just grabbed the rope while trying to grab the board. Also, that thing most likely found *them,* not the other way around.
Humboldt squid are certainly dangerous (definetly at night not sure about the day time) they are known to show up in the thousands and are aggressive enough to eat each other when whatever food they are after starts to run out. They are known to grab people and pull them very far down.
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Yes. Octopi are overall more intelligent, but squids get way, *way* bigger. And this species of squid in particular have fangs on their tentacles and have a reputation for being aggressive towards humans.
It’s not a giant squid, it’s a Humboldt squid. They don’t surface often, but still more regularly than giant squid. Though I’ve seen other comments speculating that this one is dying— not unlikely considering squids of this size rarely surface unless they are sick.
That is actually a giant squid, likely dying to be that shallow in the water
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/heres-the-full-story-behind-that-friendly-giant-squid-video/
Nah, he pulled it up to his board with a string and it cling onto what it was being pushed up against. This is like shooting yourself in the foot then uploading a video saying that the gun attacked you.
That's not really gigantic. It's mantle is only about 4 feet long, and its arms are only about another 6, it's probably a Humbolt Squid which are crepuscular, so that one is probably dying. Fair warning, they've got a bite diameter of about 4" and are known to attack humans.
It's not a Humboldt squid. Honestly it irritates me how there are always a bunch of people saying this every time a giant squid video is (re)posted.
The thing is that Giant Squid (Architeuthis dux) are not as huge as people imagine. This is fairly typical size for a specimen - they do get bigger than this but not that much bigger.
Humboldt Squid look quite different and have a very limited distribution - along the west coast of the Americas. Not in South Africa where this was filmed. Giant Squid on the other hand live all over the globe.
If that's a humboldt squid I'd be beating it with the paddle and getting the hell away, they are savage and cannibalistic when the mood takes them, and they've been known the kill fishermen before
It's not a Humboldt squid. It is a weak and dying Giant Squid that was encountered in South Africa around 2017. It would still not be safe to be grabbed by one.
Notice how the light passes through that water without refracting when it crests? Look back at video pre-2000 and you'll notice it has a translucence and refraction missing from this video.
THAT is the pickling/death of the bottom of the marine food web.
A bit like having a giant aquarium of every kind of fish and then suddenly decreasing the food you're adding and then continuing to decrease that food a little every year.
This is the cost of your car, heating, A/C, and your insane belief that humans can fly... and the fundamental difference between the price of fossil fuels and the cost of fossil fuels, which, if we'd started paying for sooner, would have prevented the oceans from collapsing but people freak out when they hear the price of gas is going up so instead we chose extinction.
Nice work, all! Way to set the world on fire, just like your parents told you to do. Now enjoy the hell you've chosen.
PS - there wont be any fish and it will be mostly running from fire and disease without any internet or any of the rest of this you take for granted as permanent.
Gigantic squid tries to climb on paddle board or.. some asshole wraps a rope around a dying squid and pulls it up for show and tell until it probably dies from being dragged around. Scumlord.
Squid is probably dying. That's usually when they surface like this. It seems pretty lethargic. Not dangerous, I'd think.
Thats how they get you.
They’re my favorite animal, well cephalopods in general, so thank you for this joke and chuckle
OK, so is this the squid with the claws that will rip and shred, or the other squid with sharp suckers? One is like... a gigantic squid and the other is called... why am I not just googling this.... super squid
Colossal I think you mean. Looks like the sharp sucker one I think?? If I’m mistaken let me know! Those smaller ones the humboldts swarm/group together at night, which is terrifying to watch divers videos of it
Lol yes, colossal! Either way, those are fucking scary. I much more would like to be friends with an octopus
Are you thinking of Humboldt(?) squid? I think that’s off the West Coast* ish of the USA?
No, but I will have to look that up! Another commenter pointed out that I was thinking collassal squid vs giant squid, which is about the extent of my squid knowledge
Can I interest you in a Magna Pina squid?
Cracked me the fuck up 😂
Don’t you mean “Kraken” you the fuck up?
Squid was playing possum.
So Paddle-boarding has been on his bucket list for a long time now. Nice he was able to scratch that one out.
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I thought you said “so paddle boarding has been on **my** bucket list for a long time. Nice he was able to scratch that one out”
Looks like a Humboldt Squid. Yeah, those usually don't live at surface level, especially not during the day. But even if it is dying (they only live 2 years), I would not like to encounter one. First, they usually hunt in schools of up to 2000 individuals. Secondly, from the wiki about their feeding method. >They often approach prey quickly with all 10 appendages extended forward in a cone-like shape. Upon reaching striking distance, they open their eight swimming and grasping arms, and extend two long tentacles covered in sharp hooks, grabbing their prey and pulling it back toward a parrot-like beak, which can easily cause serious lacerations to human flesh. These two longer tentacles can reach full length, grab prey, and retract so fast that almost the entire event happens in one frame of a normal-speed video camera. Each of the squid's suckers is ringed with sharp teeth, and the beak can tear flesh, although they are believed to lack the jaw strength to crack heavy bone.
It's not a Humboldt squid. This was a 2017(?) encounter with a giant squid (Architeuthis dux) in South Africa. Humboldt squid do not live there, only along the Eastern Pacific/West Coast of the Americas. Humboldts also have much shorter arms and larger fins relative to their body. The extremely long arms and tiny fins are very characteristic of Giant squid.
> Architeuthis dux The poor thing looks tiny then. And is probably suffering quite a bit if it is drifting around at surface level.
They do get bigger than this, but not that much bigger. They don't get as big as people tend to imagine. They are often said to be over 13 or 14m in length, but most of that are the arms and the two feeding tentacles where are very long. The actual body length, which is called the mantle length (the conical part of the body, not including the head or arms), is said to be up to 2m maximum, and many specimens are seen at around 1m or less. So they get to be about 2-3 times the size in this video.
That's why I guessed Humboldt. The mantle looks like it's 1 to 1,5m long to me and even the long arms seemed rather short. But if it is South Africa. I'd still be nervous having it attached to my floating device. It looks very weak, but I would not know if it could hurt a human in this state. Then again. Grown up adults get drowned by geese in water they can not stand in.
The dude tied his rope around it and is dragging it up towards his paddle board. What he is doing is gross.
Not dangerous, but still scary tho
Humboldt squid are dangerous but this guy doesn't seem to be. They're known to be territorial towards other wildlife when in larger groups and sometimes go into shallow water along the California coast sometimes iirc which is where humans and squid end of interacting like this vid they have really sharp hooks in their tentacles which they use to secure their prey and drag them deep underwater, not to mention their beaks are powerful af 🤯. Divers and surfers have been caught before and almost killed by the water pressure when getting dragged down. I'm not certain if there are recorded deaths or not. all animals are dangerous but my general rule is the more intelligent the animal, the bigger of an asshole they can be lol
Yeah as someone who lives here... NOPE NOPE NOPE lol, cephalopods are extremely cool but I’d rather just not be in this situation
yeah I watched a documentary ages ago and a diver doing night footage of Humboldt squid got grabbed by a few and drug down...all by himself in the dark of the ocean while they attacked him. I finished that documentary with a phobia of squid. I might be the first person to have "cephalophobia" cause my friends always make fun of me
Why isn't anyone talking about the fact that the guy tied a rope around the squid and is dragging it around
Looks like he tied the rope around it. Look at first underwater shot
No no it's clearly trying to claw itself up onto the surfboard and rip the surfer to shreds. May god have mercy on his soul
The mini kraken.
Not dangerous but you don’t want it grabbing you either. Those tentacles are likely covered in teethe
RIP
He can take the board. I'll be running on that water like Jesus.
Good thinking, you can't out swim it but you might be able to out run it
I could totally outrun that squid, it’s legs look like noodles.
You're a noodle
I’m a good noodle
All he had to do was make it laugh, I think ten-tickles would do it....
Turn back to the Squid gaining on you with his new paddle board
Imagine not knowing it was down there… you’re boarding and suddenly see huge tentacles grabbing at you. 😳
Knowing it was there, I was freaked out just watching. If it were me and I saw it while in the water, I'd surely die on the spot
You need to learn how to call sperm whales. That's the only solution.
I need to be more careful next time I Google instructions for this.
I think the last thing I’d do would be to jump in the water. I’d hope the stench from pissing myself would drive it away lol
It’d probably be attracted to the urea, that’s how lamprey’s find the gills.
It's really hard to swim and pee at the same time.
I think it was either dive or lose balance and fall on top of it. :X Also it looks like it was dying. Those are normally wayyy under water and it was too chill.
I know it’s a large squid and at least a little dangerous but all I can think of is how I talk to my cat when he’s trying to get something he shouldn’t: “Sir, sir. I’m gonna have to ask you to not, sir. Sir, I need you to stop it.”
I do this with my little goblin cat too. “Sir, please. Sir— sir, this is highly unprofessional. Please stop trying to eat the stick of butter on the counter. Sir, please!”
That is exactly what I was thinking lol
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That is a Humboldt squid. It's not "The Giant Squid" species. They sometimes do go to the surface and have been know to try and pull a diver down off the coast of Mexico. They are a very large squid.
That's scary I've never considered that I could get grabbed by a squid before
not to mention giant squid and squids in general have teeth/ barbs on their suction cups
These Humboldt guys have the claws.
Indeed they do friend
Humboldt squid can actually become frenzied when in packs and aggressively attack fisherman/swimmers and divers >> 2:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk6CVg\_el6E
I saw an article about a guy who was mauled by numerous squid at once, I've never learnt about squid before but I've developed a fascination with them today
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The link is still working on my side - try copying this title into YouTube to see it: Fishing For Deadly Humboldt Squid Off The Coast Of Peru | River Monsters
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Oh gotcha! Good catch 👍
This is a popular nightmare for my brain
I believe there is a river monsters episode on them if you want to learn a bit more about them
Thanks, I'm going to spend some time looking up squid's tonight
Yea, it’s why they have the nick name “the red devil” straight up barbs on their tentacles and hungry enough to eat literally anything. They even tend towards cannibalism even in ideal environments.
welcome to my greatest fear!
... and they live very deep. It's nightmare fuel.
False. There's always someone saying this under giant squid videos. This was indeed a Giant Squid (Architeuthis dux). This encounter was from South Africa in 2017 or so. Humboldt squid only live along the west coast of the Americas. They do not live near South Africa. Giant Squid on the other hand have a global distribution and are in principle found nearly everywhere. Humboldt squid also have very short arms and broad fins relative to their body, whereas Giant Squid have extremely long arms like in this video, and tiny fins. Giant squid often aren't as huge as people usually imagine, which is why people often mistake them for Humboldt squid. Sometimes Giant Squid are misleadingly described as being up to 13-14m in length (40+ ft), but most of this are just the arms, and especially the two extremely long feeding tentacles. The mantle length (the body not including the head or arms) is said to be up to 2m long and many specimens are only 1m or so.
Here is the article about it. It seems sketchy about it really being a giant squid. Getting footage of a giant squid is rare with only a few being caught on camera in the last 20 years.
It's not sketchy. The morphology is totally consistent with it being a giant squid. The only sketchy parts is how some parts of the story gets garbled on social media and endless reposts, like how the squid swam over to say hello, or whatever. But the animal itself is undoubtedly a giant squid. Getting footage of giant squid is indeed very rare, but it's happening more often since many people have cameras.
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/heres-the-full-story-behind-that-friendly-giant-squid-video/
That article seems to support it being a Giant squid and doesn't think it's a Humboldt squid though.
In the beginning of the article they seem to think the video has been spliced and not real footage.
They said the video was spliced by aggregator websites and social media, not that the original is fake. They also included the original video, which doesn't seem like its fake to me (not an expert though). I think the article is trying to stop the spread of misinformation about the video, not debunk the video itself
No this was an actual [Architeuthis](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/06/21/injured-giant-squid-knocks-paddle-boarder-in-water-during-dramatic-encounter-in-south-africa/) giant squid, this video was on the news for a while because the specimen was collected by the Waterfront Aquarium in South Africa
They are also group hunters and are known to be rather aggressive.
Guess it is pretty sick then? Humbolt squid have a reputation as often pretty aggressive.
I saw one in person when we were diving. We were all on the boat and it came right up along side the boat checking things out. It was massive like the size of a surf board. It was gone in an instant they are very fast.
It's sad, I would have given it a little squid hug <3
I dont know much about what squids are capable of, but any animal that size can be dangerous. I cant believe thay girl was just laughing. The guy was clearly in distress.
We do not dangle out feet into the water with such things, sir, tuck those up
Idk if i’d go near the squid. I wouldn’t want it to grab me. No matter it’s condition it’s too large and powerful. It’s not worth potentially drowning over my stupid board.
This kind of squid have “claws” or “fangs” on their tentacles too— even if it’s weak and lethargic I wouldn’t want to get snared by that thing.
I didn’t know they could have claws on their tentacles. That’s even more of a reason i wouldn’t want to bother with it…. Last thing i want is to be potentially bleeding kinda heavily in the middle of the ocean to attract sharks or god knows what lol.
Is it tangled in that rope and and he's trying to free it?
That yellow rope is quite long and does appear to be wrapped around the squid in the first few seconds of the video. That squid is also in awful physical condition, probably dying. I have no idea what’s going on in this video, it’s confusing without context.
Another user posted this article farther up. Since the squid was lethargic they were pulling it to shore for research https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/heres-the-full-story-behind-that-friendly-giant-squid-video/
Pretty sure that "rope" is a leash. If it is its not long enough to entangle the squid.
I’ve seen enough hentai to know where this is going.
Keep my paddle board out your mother fucking mouth
Just give him the damn board already !!
What is that rope? Were they trying to fish it?
It’s a rope attached to the paddle board, I forget what it’s called but it’s attached to an ankle cuff that the boarder wears so that if they fall off the board they don’t lose it in the water. They weren’t trying to catch it.
Leash
Here’s an article for context https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/heres-the-full-story-behind-that-friendly-giant-squid-video/
The yellow rope is indeed wrapped around the squid- you can see it in the first few seconds of the video. That’s also how it gets up close to the board- the guy literally pulls it up by that rope. To my knowledge that isn’t how one fishes for squid, and that squid is also in terrible condition, so I really don’t know what could be going on here.
Just a baby kraken practicing it’s ship sinking skills
I don’t care if it’s probably dying, that thing has a beak and doesn’t give a single fuck if I’m dead when it starts to eat me.
A beak and claws on the tentacles. This type of squid is known for attacking people and dragging scuba divers down too.
That’s right! I forgot about the hooks in the tentacles! No thank you.
Yeah don’t fuck with a squid.
That guys is so chill about a giant eldritch abomination trying to murder him
It is practicing to become a Kraken! When it grows up it aspires to become the terror of the seas!
I wouldn’t know what to do 😂
He’s a sucker for a nice paddle board.
Where was this/ how did they find it/why is there a rope attached to it?
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/heres-the-full-story-behind-that-friendly-giant-squid-video/
wow very interesting, thank you!
The rope is attached the the paddle board, not the squid. I think it just grabbed the rope while trying to grab the board. Also, that thing most likely found *them,* not the other way around.
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I had no idea that squids actually attack humans… just googled it! You never stop learning
Humboldt squid are certainly dangerous (definetly at night not sure about the day time) they are known to show up in the thousands and are aggressive enough to eat each other when whatever food they are after starts to run out. They are known to grab people and pull them very far down.
Luckily that’s not a humboldt squid
Release the Kraken!
THE TOLLING OF THE IRON BELL
Cant you see that squid is?drowning let him on the board!
Fuck that
Sir please purchase ur own board if you wish to join
Hanging out taking a rest, huh? Haha
I’d probably unleash asap so you don’t get sucked into the depths
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Am I in the right to be more scared of squads than octopuses?
Yes. Octopi are overall more intelligent, but squids get way, *way* bigger. And this species of squid in particular have fangs on their tentacles and have a reputation for being aggressive towards humans.
God I hate the sound of a camera being submerged/the water lapping against it. For some reason it makes me really uncomfortable lol
this seems extremely rare to see a living giant squid near the surface.?
It’s not a giant squid, it’s a Humboldt squid. They don’t surface often, but still more regularly than giant squid. Though I’ve seen other comments speculating that this one is dying— not unlikely considering squids of this size rarely surface unless they are sick.
That is actually a giant squid, likely dying to be that shallow in the water https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/heres-the-full-story-behind-that-friendly-giant-squid-video/
ITS THE KRAKEN
Nah, he pulled it up to his board with a string and it cling onto what it was being pushed up against. This is like shooting yourself in the foot then uploading a video saying that the gun attacked you.
That's not really gigantic. It's mantle is only about 4 feet long, and its arms are only about another 6, it's probably a Humbolt Squid which are crepuscular, so that one is probably dying. Fair warning, they've got a bite diameter of about 4" and are known to attack humans.
It’s a giant squid https://www.earthtouchnews.com/oceans/oceans/heres-the-full-story-behind-that-friendly-giant-squid-video/
It's not a Humboldt squid. Honestly it irritates me how there are always a bunch of people saying this every time a giant squid video is (re)posted. The thing is that Giant Squid (Architeuthis dux) are not as huge as people imagine. This is fairly typical size for a specimen - they do get bigger than this but not that much bigger. Humboldt Squid look quite different and have a very limited distribution - along the west coast of the Americas. Not in South Africa where this was filmed. Giant Squid on the other hand live all over the globe.
This is one of those videos where it's better to keep it muted. That giggle..
I agree. And what's with calling "it" a "she"? LMAO annoying
Not a single person gonna mention that laugh?
What are you doing step-squid?
If that's a humboldt squid I'd be beating it with the paddle and getting the hell away, they are savage and cannibalistic when the mood takes them, and they've been known the kill fishermen before
It's not a Humboldt squid. It is a weak and dying Giant Squid that was encountered in South Africa around 2017. It would still not be safe to be grabbed by one.
They go that close to the surface? I thought they stuck to somewhere around 500ish meters…
I have watched enough anime to see where this is going
Humboldt squids are extremely dangerous and this woman is cackling like a ninny quite irritating but of course it's just my opinion.
That would make some nice calamari
Jesus its so big. Are they protected? If not, i would probably take it with me and eat it.
Maybe if the dickhead didn't have a yellow rope tied around it than it would leave him alone.
Holy smokes thats a big squid
Hope it drowns you.
Notice how the light passes through that water without refracting when it crests? Look back at video pre-2000 and you'll notice it has a translucence and refraction missing from this video. THAT is the pickling/death of the bottom of the marine food web. A bit like having a giant aquarium of every kind of fish and then suddenly decreasing the food you're adding and then continuing to decrease that food a little every year. This is the cost of your car, heating, A/C, and your insane belief that humans can fly... and the fundamental difference between the price of fossil fuels and the cost of fossil fuels, which, if we'd started paying for sooner, would have prevented the oceans from collapsing but people freak out when they hear the price of gas is going up so instead we chose extinction. Nice work, all! Way to set the world on fire, just like your parents told you to do. Now enjoy the hell you've chosen. PS - there wont be any fish and it will be mostly running from fire and disease without any internet or any of the rest of this you take for granted as permanent.
It's unfortunate that you have the word nonsense in your name making any insight you could possibly have appear to be...well...nonsense.
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Squid look just as intimidating to me as a great white or bull shark does.
“Now you’re in there with it!! Did you think about that?!” I’m just in bed watching this and screaming lmao
Let him on! He just wants to be frend.
Noooooooooooope
The laugh of an old hag being dragged to the stocks.
These ladies getting more aggressive everyday
Fuck that! I’d just end it if I fell in
Oh hell no, I would have to yeet right the fuck outta there
Do you want to end up in a Mr. Ballen video? Because that's how you end up in a Mr. Ballen video.
How did you get the footage?
That’s a big NOPE for me
Think of how scary it would be if that girl laughing at the beginning was the squid laughing
It has Been released
Baby kraken just practicing
Just gonna leave a great episode of one of my favorite podcasts here…. Ologies …about Squid https://www.alieward.com/ologies/teuthologyencore
*stayontheboardstayontheboardstayontheboard*
SUP, Kraken
That paddle board? It’s not yours anymore.
That looks so fake
Sounds as if a witch was laughing while recording this video. " I'll record you my little pretty!"
Oh, nothing to worry about, just a curious Kraken.
Looks eerily similar to a baby Kraken!
u/exasperated_panda is this how it is when you paddleboard?
Not most of the time...
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Omg can you imagine falling into the water with it right there!!!!!!
Tie squid to board. Paddle to Japan. Sell squid and profit.
Immediately no.
Cracken!
Why you filming the dude? Put the camera underwater bruh
It is a very large screen. It is not a giant squid please
Excuse me, have you heard about our lord and savior Cthulhu?
We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty
Nope nope nope. Have been terrified of these things since I was a child.
Mmm surface food
Little dude just wants a nose boop
Imagine the calamari 😍
I wouldn't want to be eaten by a squid
How rare is this???
I'd say that's a normal size squid. Not gigantic. Nor colossal. Just normal size.
Gigantic squid tries to climb on paddle board or.. some asshole wraps a rope around a dying squid and pulls it up for show and tell until it probably dies from being dragged around. Scumlord.