Edith Widder How we found the giant squid

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

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.

You hear about giant squid and things like that, but some of these animals get up to be approximately 140, 160 feet long.

Humankind has been looking for the giant squid 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 film for the first time.

And that was a Humboldt squid, a juvenile Humboldt squid, about three feet long.

Starving the Squid

How many arms does a squid have?

I want to eat squid this evening.

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.

It was amazing. These giant chimneys, huge giant chimneys.

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.

Giant

In the next bit, we're going to see a couple squid.

The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

On giant grass.

Anatotitan giant duck.

And by taking giant mirrors and here she's taking giant mirrors and pulling them into the dirt.

These are squid. Now males, when they fight, if they're really aggressive, they turn white.

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

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

Number four giant solar flares.

Giant, almond shaped, unblinking eyes?

Bingo! Now I'm told that's not just a squid phenomenon with males, but I don't know.

We collide them inside giant detectors.

This looks like a giant hamburger.

Richard Preston on the giant trees

It's a giant duck bill dinosaur.

The Rise of an Insecure Giant

Peter Diamandis on our next giant leap

Tierney Thys swims with the giant sunfish

It looks like a giant Hampton Inn.

You'll been engulfed by a red giant.

India's outward FDI A giant awakening? Geneva.

We need to take a giant step.

This is something that my people at SQUID Labs are working on at the moment, called electronic rope.

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

It can't just be a giant sexist conspiracy.

That's a 12 foot long giant sixgill shark.

Indeed it throws up giant sparks like castles,

Indeed it throws up giant sparks like castles,

The reason that the electronic jellyfish worked as a lure is not because giant squid eat jellyfish, but it's because this jellyfish only resorts to producing this light when it's being chewed on by a predator and its only hope for escape may be to attract the attention of a larger predator that will attack its attacker and thereby afford it an opportunity for escape.

The teachers dragged giant PVC whiteboards into the classrooms.

I doubt anyone has seen a giant bluefin feed.

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