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H_James Ancient Cow (&)
Creepy thing Joined: 18 May 2002 Total posts: 5624 |
 Posted: 02-08-2002 21:48 Post subject: |
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| that was also in the daily mail |
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| curzone La Duende
Count Frogula Joined: 07 Sep 2001 Total posts: 70 Location: Brighton UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 07-08-2002 11:27 Post subject: Dun-Dun Dun-Dun Dun-Dun Dun-Dun Dun-Dun DUN Dun Dun-Dun DUN. |
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Didn't see the photo, but tuna can be a pretty impressive size fish with almost armour like scales. I'd be damn flabbergasted if I saw a squid eating one!!!
Incidentally, I was sent an e-mail with an attached picture of a shark attack taken near the South African coast during a military exercise by the British Navy. It was touted as being genuine and had been nominated by the National Geographic as "The Photo of the Year".
After finding this website, I think we can assume (I hope) it's a fake… Cant we?
http://www.wavescape.co.za/top_bar/tidings/Sharks/street_shark2.html |
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| ninja_cat shadow warrior? Joined: 03 Aug 2001 Total posts: 672 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 07-08-2002 11:49 Post subject: |
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| Excellent piccie though. |
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| Jerry_B Great Old One Joined: 15 Apr 2002 Total posts: 8265 |
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| Jerry_B Great Old One Joined: 15 Apr 2002 Total posts: 8265 |
| Posted: 08-08-2002 10:48 Post subject: |
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That's a Blackhawk helicopter  |
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| ninja_cat shadow warrior? Joined: 03 Aug 2001 Total posts: 672 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 08-08-2002 12:22 Post subject: |
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And they don't have any of those either  |
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| DaveVader2 Still Greyish... Joined: 29 May 2002 Total posts: 22 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 08-08-2002 14:54 Post subject: |
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"This sequence of a Great White catching prey in False Bay, Cape Town, dispels the myth that Great Whites don't jump out of the water.
PLEASE NOTE: Surfing is safe in South Africa. Great Whites generally stick to deep water. There is also plenty of prey in the form of seals, which number in the hundreds of thousands
in the waters off the Cape. The number of shark attacks are relatively rare. You have far more chance of dying in a plane crash, so don't get all woesie about going surfing."
My housemate nearly lost a foot to a Great White off of SA, so dont believe everything you read on websites. South Africa has one of the worst records for Shark attacks in the world, but its all part of the fun hay? |
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| Mike_Pratt33 Wise Old Bird Joined: 20 Sep 2001 Total posts: 692 Gender: Unknown |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 19-08-2002 22:25 Post subject: Baby giant squid |
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They found some baby giant squid off N.Z coast though. They caught them and they all died. Humans 1 Squids 0.
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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020225/squid.html
Someone must have eaten a lot of calamari afterwards....... |
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| ruffready Ruff says.. Joined: 06 Aug 2002 Total posts: 3318 Location: Florida Age: 3 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 19-08-2002 22:49 Post subject: giant squids |
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| Yeh, we own those helios -an much more...If a giant squid that those sperm whales like to dine on was found intact and a-live on film ---don't worry, it'll be all over the news.. |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 20-08-2002 13:04 Post subject: Re: Dun-Dun Dun-Dun Dun-Dun Dun-Dun Dun-Dun DUN Dun Dun-Dun |
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| Curzone wrote: |
Incidentally, I was sent an e-mail with an attached picture of a shark attack taken near the South African coast during a military exercise by the British Navy. It was touted as being genuine and had been nominated by the National Geographic as "The Photo of the Year".
After finding this website, I think we can assume (I hope) it's a fake… Cant we?
http://www.wavescape.co.za/top_bar/tidings/Sharks/street_shark2.html |
Definite fake. This site has the 2 original photos.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/shark.htm |
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| Evolved |
| Posted: 30-08-2002 16:42 Post subject: Giant Squid Washed Up |
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=9&u=/nm/20020829/od_nm/squid_dc_1
| Quote: | Giant Squid Washes Up on Portuguese Beach
Thu Aug 29, 9:21 AM ET
LISBON (Reuters) - A giant squid has washed up on a Portuguese beach, a rare occurrence for the deep-water creature, a museum spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Bathers found the dead 21.5-foot-long animal on Wednesday on a beach near Melides, about 50 miles south of Lisbon, a spokeswoman for the Oceanographic Museum of Portinho da Arrabida said.
Nature reserve workers transported the 110-pound cephalopod to the museum, she said. It has been frozen awaiting examination and classification.
Giant squid normally live at depths of 1,600 to 3,300 feet, and usually sink when they die.
A giant squid with tentacles measuring at least 15 yards in length washed up on an Australian beach in July.
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| mikeymichael |
| Posted: 31-08-2002 06:29 Post subject: |
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but did it rinse the suds off the cups?
I think not.
little cups, giant hands. got to be tricky. |
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| pizzed_off with the luggage Joined: 06 Nov 2002 Total posts: 9664 |
| Posted: 11-11-2002 04:39 Post subject: giant squids |
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| dont u mean fairy washing up liqid (c,r,tm ) |
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| rynner Location: Still above sea level Gender: Male |
| Posted: 17-01-2003 21:23 Post subject: Giant Squid grabs race yacht |
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Story here: | Quote: | Jan. 16 — A French yacht taking part in the Jules Verne round-the-world sailing trophy was gripped by a giant squid for about an hour in the mid-Atlantic, its skipper announced by radio-link.
Veteran yachtsman Oliver de Kersauson, at the helm of the trimaran Geronimo, said the three-hulled boat was hit by strange vibrations on Sunday, so he sent a crew member below deck to try to identify what was wrong.
"Suddenly he saw something moving," de Kersauson said. "It was tentacles.
"The squid was pulling really hard, so we put the boat about and when we came to a stop the tentacles let go. We saw it behind the boat, and it was enormous. I have been sailing for 40 years, and I have never seen the like," he said.
Crew member Didier Ragault, who spotted the creature through a port-hole said "the tentacles were as thick as my arm wearing an oil-skin, and I immediately thought of the damage it could do.
"When we saw it behind the boat it must have been seven, eight or nine meters long (ca. 26 feet)," he said.
The giant squid, Architeuthis dux, is the world's largest invertebrate. Although historical records say the animal can reach 18 meters (60 feet) in length and weigh a ton, giant squid expert Steve O'Shea says the biggest squid in the 70 he's seen so far was 40 feet long and weighed about 660 pounds.
The giant squid is also highly elusive, living in very deep water. Only about 250 sightings have been officially recorded — most of them of dead animals on beaches.
The creature used to feature in numerous maritime stories and legends about attacks on ships, notably in Verne's own 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
That's exactly why O'Shea thinks the sailors are having a little fun with the media.
"I am afraid I simply do not believe this story," O'Shea told Discovery News. "The animal resides at great depth. Something latched on to their boat, or got lodged against the rudder perhaps."
O'Shea said: "Whatever it was it was NOT a live giant squid."
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So here we have an 'expert' who wasn't there dissing the word of those who were.
But there is a way confirmation could be gained: race yachts like these carry satnav gear which reports their positions to race control. If the reports do show that the boat was near stationary for an hour at the time the crew said, this would be strong evidence in their favour. (No race crew would willingly stop racing just to perpetrate a hoax.) Let's hope someone on board took pics or video. |
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