Rare Giant Squid Caught Off Canary Islands

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http://www.nbc17.com/news/3651163/detail.html

Rare Giant Squid Caught Off Canary Islands
Squid Is Nearly 30 Feet Long
Fishermen catch a giant squid, one of the ocean's most reclusive creatures, off of Spain's Canary Islands.


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The squid measures nearly 30 feet long and weighs 222 pounds. It was found tangled in the fishermen's nets. It had already died.

There have only been 300 confirmed sightings of giant squids over the past 500 years. None have ever been seen alive.

The creatures usually live at depths of more than 660 feet, but sometimes surface to feed on fishermen's bait.

Smaller squid are considered a delicacy, but giant squid are inedible because their bodies contain a high concentration of ammonia, which helps them survive in deeper waters.

The squid will be turned over to the Canary Islands Institute of Science for research and will eventually be put on display at a local museum.

The largest giant squid ever found was nearly 60 feet long and weighed 2,000 pounds.
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[Keith_Hixson]

Just about the size of a Hood Canal oyster. The oysters are so big in Hood Canal, Washington that one oyster will feed a party of 100. Out at the psycho vets West Coast fling Griz only had one oyster and it fed all the guys.

Seriously,

It is amazing that something that slimy could get so big.

Keith

[PHO127]

I'll vouch for it, Why it was so big why you never saw such an oyster. It took two pigs just to wrap it in Bacon.

[b3196]

Larry
Those guys are pulling your leg....Everything looks real big when you're wearing prescription ashtrays....Now I did see a clam once that was hugh, but thats a different story.
Bob K

[DMZ-LT]

Was it a bearded clam ?

[b3196]

Yup
Bob K

[b3196]

John
I believe its called the bearded-land-clam.....

Its amazing how we can take a serios thread like this and totally
destroy it with your sick sense of humor.
Bob K

[Keith_Hixson]

I led John astray.

Keith

[b3196]

Keith
You're being too hard on yourself. I'm going down there in Sept....I'll try and work on John's problem
Bob K

[DMZ-LT]

Sharon is gonna be POed if you try working on her Bob , when you are here in Sept. But give it a shot , it will take some of the pressure off me