Monster of the Deep

i personally think that the fisherman could have at least tried to recessitate the poor squid. how about mouth to mouth? what about his portable defibulater?
no you have give it to scientists so we can learn more about their species. rediculous.

Wow, it amazes me that folks will offer a comment after not reading the full article. The squid was NOT DEAD when brought aboard the vessel. But, it was also not in great shape after being tangled in the net. The law states, anything caught there, must be brought aboard. There seems to be alot of roaring about this man hunting for squid. He is a fisherman, fishing. Now, correct me if I am wrong, but he spends most of his time ON THE WATER!!!!! I am surprised he hasn't seen or caught more of them. Now, the other uproar seens to be because he didn't save it. Has anyone seen a commercial fishing vessel?? They are not equipped to save a creature such as this. For gawd's sake people, leave it alone. This poor guy is trying to make his living and is now being condemned for things he had no control over. He did the best for the squid and headed for shore. Would some of you rather he tossed the poor thing back into the water to slowly die? Or maybe once he got to shore he should have sold it to the highest bidder? He gave it to science. Enough already.

I wonder how many more giant creatures live in bottom of de ep ocean.God knows why they are kept

away from human reach.

Gues what would happen to them if men can reached them easily?

Better yet, let the squid loose - all tangled up in the net to die a slow and hideous death. Let it get other creatures entangled in the net too. Is that a more satisfactory ending for the great beast?

Honestly, what is the discussion here? Chances are the ship would not have had the capacity to keep the squid alive outside of water. This being the situation, why not examine the squid while we can? It's not as if the ship was targeting colossal squid. Maybe some sqeamish people have more of a problem with the 'scientific' pictures of the calamari feast or the 'death by squid' that the scientists took in their excited state... But we all know that scientists are weird and haven't evolved all that much outside of their field! Nasty, I know, but I wonder about the people who made comments about these 'horrible' people (the so-called squid killers aboard the ship) - Do they still eat fish in general and what kind of cars they drive?

What I tried to post to the other comments about this story ( couldnt post it at this time came up) was ,
I know he was just fishing , trying to earn a living , doing what he does ,But , He couldnt save it ? come on !
The creature was captured while it was still eating ! I can see if it was dead when it was captured . But if you all read the artical it said , It was still eating , It was alive , At least try to save a rare creature like this ....not tring to to me , is just have bragging rights ....People like trophys way to much, I believe we go around our everyday lives and we dont think things threw when what we really should do is take the time to stop and just think , This creature is just one of many that lived a long life and now it ended . They could have tried to save it and if they did try they should have printed that in the artical . And the one that commented on the Peta
Fruits , well Sir , Its people like you that scratch thier heads and ask "why or how the heck did something
this happen ?" Like why is the world in the situation its in right now ! Think about this comment ......If
someone found a dinosaur and it was alive somewhere, do you honestly think it would be left alone to live
out its years? NO! Because we dont think .
Thats why alot of creatures, animals and even our enviroment and atmosphere is in the state its in . Yes we
take things into extremes , but is it better to have a world with no animals, creatures or plants that wont be
there for our children or our childrens children ...except for what they see in a book .....or a artical like this !
Enough said , you be the judge. And if you find your self every saying theses words "how could we have let this happen". think about this artical......................

What I tried to post to the other comments about this story ( couldnt post it at this time came up) was ,
I know he was just fishing , trying to earn a living , doing what he does ,But , He couldnt save it ? come on !
The creature was captured while it was still eating ! I can see if it was dead when it was captured . But if you all read the artical it said , It was still eating , It was alive , At least try to save a rare creature like this ....not tring to to me , is just have bragging rights ....People like trophys way to much, I believe we go around our everyday lives and we dont think things threw when what we really should do is take the time to stop and just think , This creature is just one of many that lived a long life and now it ended . They could have tried to save it and if they did try they should have printed that in the artical . And the one that commented on the Peta
Fruits , well Sir , Its people like you that scratch thier heads and ask "why or how the heck did something
this happen ?" Like why is the world in the situation its in right now ! Think about this comment ......If
someone found a dinosaur and it was alive somewhere, do you honestly think it would be left alone to live
out its years? NO! Because we dont think .
Thats why alot of creatures, animals and even our enviroment and atmosphere is in the state its in . Yes we
take things into extremes , but is it better to have a world with no animals, creatures or plants that wont be
there for our children or our childrens children ...except for what they see in a book .....or a artical like this !
Enough said , you be the judge. And if you find your self every saying theses words "how could we have let this happen". think about this artical......................

What I tried to post to the other comments about this story ( couldnt post it at this time came up) was ,
I know he was just fishing , trying to earn a living , doing what he does ,But , He couldnt save it ? come on !
The creature was captured while it was still eating ! I can see if it was dead when it was captured . But if you all read the artical it said , It was still eating , It was alive , At least try to save a rare creature like this ....not tring to to me , is just have bragging rights ....People like trophys way to much, I believe we go around our everyday lives and we dont think things threw when what we really should do is take the time to stop and just think , This creature is just one of many that lived a long life and now it ended . They could have tried to save it and if they did try they should have printed that in the artical . And the one that commented on the Peta
Fruits , well Sir , Its people like you that scratch thier heads and ask "why or how the heck did something
this happen ?" Like why is the world in the situation its in right now ! Think about this comment ......If
someone found a dinosaur and it was alive somewhere, do you honestly think it would be left alone to live
out its years? NO! Because we dont think .
Thats why alot of creatures, animals and even our enviroment and atmosphere is in the state its in . Yes we
take things into extremes , but is it better to have a world with no animals, creatures or plants that wont be
there for our children or our childrens children ...except for what they see in a book .....or a artical like this !
Enough said , you be the judge. And if you find your self every saying theses words "how could we have let this happen". think about this artical......................

What I tried to post to the other comments about this story ( couldnt post it at this time came up) was ,
I know he was just fishing , trying to earn a living , doing what he does ,But , He couldnt save it ? come on !
The creature was captured while it was still eating ! I can see if it was dead when it was captured . But if you all read the artical it said , It was still eating , It was alive , At least try to save a rare creature like this ....not tring to to me , is just have bragging rights ....People like trophys way to much, I believe we go around our everyday lives and we dont think things threw when what we really should do is take the time to stop and just think , This creature is just one of many that lived a long life and now it ended . They could have tried to save it and if they did try they should have printed that in the artical . And the one that commented on the Peta
Fruits , well Sir , Its people like you that scratch thier heads and ask "why or how the heck did something
this happen ?" Like why is the world in the situation its in right now ! Think about this comment ......If
someone found a dinosaur and it was alive somewhere, do you honestly think it would be left alone to live
out its years? NO! Because we dont think .
Thats why alot of creatures, animals and even our enviroment and atmosphere is in the state its in . Yes we
take things into extremes , but is it better to have a world with no animals, creatures or plants that wont be
there for our children or our childrens children ...except for what they see in a book .....or a artical like this !
Enough said , you be the judge. And if you find your self every saying theses words "how could we have let this happen". think about this artical......................

I've been interested in this type of creature for a long time....Seems as though the sailing whalers of ages gone by weren't as daft as landlubbers thought they were. Could T-Rex or his cousins be reserected? Hank from Houston, TX

Whats really sad about this story and the situation is , People ,scientist and envirmentalist all wonder why the world is in the shape its in and why the animals are slowly vanishing. The artical said that they couldnt put the creature back or it would have died! But it was eating when the caught it, now something could have been done to save this rare creature and instead it became news. Do we as humans just think that everything is news and scientific that we have to either kill something ,or pull things apart and experiment
to find out how it works or why something survived for so many years ? Instead now the poor animals dead and who really knows how many of these creatures are in our surrounding oceans ........
I find this story rather sad and the Captain of the vessel that decided that they had to kill it because it wouldnt survive ( that creature lived all these years , come on ) to be very unintelligent

leave it alone?? dude, it came to them, and wouldn't have been unable to detangle it anyway.

I think you misunderstood the article. They were'nt hunting the squid to "kill it for being different". They caught it by accident and due to law and policy they couldnt release it. Plus the damage done to it probably would'nt have allowed it to survive to anyway. There's no reason for them to not study it since its already caught and dead and obviously they cannot bring it back to life. They are understandablyexcited because its so rare to even see them much less catch them. I undersand your point though. Its sad for such a magnificent creature to die in such a way, and its horrible when other creatures are hunted down just because they are what they are. I just do not think the comment applies to this particular bit of news.

Did not realize you were allowed to PURPOSELY FISH FOR GIANT SQUID.
This is the guy's 2nd giant squid????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Somebody stop him - please.