How we found the giant squid | Edith Widder
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- čas přidán 4. 03. 2013
- Humankind has been looking for the giant squid (Architeuthis) since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep-sea predator could never be caught on film. Oceanographer and inventor Edith Widder shares the key insight -- and the teamwork -- that helped to capture the squid on camera for the first time.
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You know, I can see how the kraken legend started. Some whalers sitting in a little rowboat suddenly see a giant squid attacking their quarry. It'd be enough to unnerve even the toughest of salts.
If this is the giant squid, what about the colossal squid?
Imagine how many sailors faced these beasts to then come back and have someone say "nah."
She makes a very good point. they're absolutely should be a aquatic division of NASA. Or a separate company doing the same thing for the ocean. The ocean takes up the majority of our planet we should understand our home first.
As much as I like space exploration, I have said for decades that we need to know more about the ocean. I have always had a hunch that many benefits, like medical cures exist right here on our own planet if we can just find them.
And deeper in the sea lives the Great Cthulhu, and even more deeper lives the sponge bob
She's just bragging about how she found the biggest squid and why there's no point in looking for a bigger squid because no matter what she will always find the biggest squid, even gigantic space-squids if she has to.
What’s more rare? Seeing a giant squid or being in a photo with multiple Japanese people and being able to say, “I’m the short one.”
The interesting thing is that the giant squid is actually not aggressive and is more of a gentle giant. the aggressive ones are the smaller Humboldt squids
......... We are going to need a bigger boat.......
A jelly fish that attracts a bigger predictor to attack it's attacker?
Dr. Widder came to give a lecture at my university recently. At some point she had the stage lights turned down while she held up a jar full of plankton. She gave it a shake and the jar lit up bright blue! It was such a privilege to get to learn from her firsthand 💕
I LOVE how you can see that the squid isn't attacking the light, but is attempting to tag a possible attacker that would be around the light-source.
Her excitement makes me excited too!
The army gets more in a week than NASA gets in a year
The man center left at
I loved the goofy drawing at
7:03
Chtulu, is that you?
I didn’t know Mike DeGruy passed away 😰. What a loss, I remember watching him on adventures since I was little. He has made a truly great contribution to the science and knowledge of our Oceans. He will definitely be missed.