This little squid is called the fire shooter because of its ability to do this.

What was not mentioned in the Discovery documentary was that the bait squid that Dr. Kubodera used, a one meter long diamondback squid had a light attached to it, a squid jig of the type that longline fishermen use, and I think it was this light that brought the giant in.

It was Mike that got me invited to the squid summit, a gathering of squid experts at the Discovery Channel that summer during Shark Week.

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So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

Whereas all previous expeditions had failed to garner a single video glimpse of the giant, we managed six, and the first triggered wild excitement.

And it opens and closes the shutter so the amount of light coming out of the bottom which is made by the bacterium exactly matches how much light hits the squid's back, so the squid doesn't make a shadow.

Cephalopods head foots. As a kid I knew them as calamari, mostly.

But then if you think about it, the squid has this terrible problem because it's got this dying, thick culture of bacteria and it can't sustain that.

Again, another plug for the animals in the ocean, Vibrio fischeri lives in this squid.

The reason the squid is willing to put up with these shenanigans is because it wants that light.

What the squid has developed is a shutter that can open and close over this specialized light organ housing the bacteria.

Then it has detectors on its back so it can sense how much starlight or moonlight is hitting its back.

A lot of them can release their luciferin or luferase in the water just the way a squid or an octopus will release an ink cloud.

The squid is nocturnal, so during the day it buries itself in the sand and sleeps, but then at night it has to come out to hunt.

Grab the thief!

For example, this shrimp releases its bioluminescent chemicals into the water just the way a squid or an octopus would release an ink cloud.

The way that this symbiosis works is that this little squid lives just off the coast of Hawaii, just in sort of shallow knee deep water.

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(a) Urban and rural banditry

I gave a talk on unobtrusive viewing and optical luring of deep sea squid in which I emphasized the importance of using quiet, unobtrusive platforms for exploration.

On bright nights when there is lots of starlight or moonlight that light can penetrate the depth of the water the squid lives in, since it's just in those couple feet of water.

Now, what you're seeing is the intensified camera's view under red light, and that's all Dr. Kubodera could see when the giant comes in here.

Now the bacteria are dilute, that little hormone molecule is gone, so they're not making light but of course the squid doesn't care. It's asleep in the sand.

Call the police, Minchae!

And as the day goes by the bacteria double, they release the molecule, and then light comes on at night, exactly when the squid wants it.

And what does he see but a burglar with a gun in his hand.

The police think the burglar entered through a basement window.

It's hard to steal from a thief.

Mike deGruy was also invited, and he spoke with great passion about his love of the ocean, and he also talked to me about applying my approach to something he's been involved with for a very long time, which is the hunt for the giant squid.

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I have a small boat, says the pirate, and for that I am called a thief.

I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls tomorrow's child, asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral reefs and the living ocean while there still was time.

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Then he meets the yeti crab, the famous vampire squid elusive, hard to find and the Dumbo octopus, which looks so much like a cartoon in real life that really didn't have to change a thing when I drew it.

In April this year, the police successfully made an arrest of the thief when he was preparing to steal the suitcase of a Taiwanese tourist.

And then he got so excited, he turned on his flashlight because he wanted to see better, and the giant didn't run away, so he risked turning on the white lights on the submersible, bringing a creature of legend from the misty history into high resolution video.

The armed rebellion has ended but it has had after effects, including armed banditry, bringing about lasting vulnerability.

Anyone with information about their identities should contact Newport police at 859 292 3680.

Terrorists, rapists, burglars, gangsters some of them I'd sent to jail as a police officer outside.

That fellow looks left and right, and spreads a newspaper, rolls it into the newspaper, gives it to me like a banned item, something like that.

What you are looking at is the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, and it's been turned on its back, and what I hope you can see are these two glowing lobes and these house the Vibrio fischeri cells, they live in there, at high cell number that molecule is there, and they're making light.

The Team sees no let up in the determination of Al Qaida, the Taliban and their associates to continue their campaign of terror.

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