Giant squid - Searching through the abyss

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Japanese crew have captured pictures of a giant squid which many used to believe was pure myth! Notably, these scientists admit to have made over 100 submersible missions before they were able to successfully follow and videotape a giant squid. Until recently, little was known about the creature believed to be the real face of the mythical kraken, a sea-monster blamed by sailors for sinking ships off Norway in the 18th century. The massive invertebrate is the stuff of legend, with sightings of a huge ocean-dwelling beast reported by sailors for centuries. In fact, the footage of the giant squid was captured when a three-man submersible team (Japanese men) descended to a depth of 2,066 feet (630 metres) in the northern Pacific Ocean4. The images of the silvery, long cephalopod, looming out of the darkness near the Ogasawara islands - 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo...

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• Assisted by: Edward R. Miller-Jones (Editor), Edwar R Miller-Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: FastBook Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9786130148447
• ISBN: 978-613-0-14844-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology