[ot] Colossal Squid

[William Ronald]

For those of you planning either a nautical adventure for your players, check out:

Deep Sea Monster Squid Found at CNN.

Sounds like an aggressive species to me.

 

[Mark]

Cool! They found another biggun'! I wonder if they'll ever get some video footage of those monsters while alive...?

 

[William Ronald]

That would be something I would like to see! We have only hints of what lies in the ocean. There are squids or octopi that have left large sucker marks on whales. Now one of those would be frightening to behold. (Reminds me of the former PC in my campaign who never recovered from a run in with Kraken and would repeat the word kraken while under stress.)

How is everything. Mark?

 

[Krug]

A surfeit of squid

There's already a thread on this. Look for Dire Squid.

 

[Mark]

Not too bad.

I keep seeing documentaries where they send down the rather smallish submersibles to try and capture them on film and I always wonder how well they would fare if they find one!

 

[The Forsaken One]

The man does have a point

 

[Gez]

Nothing new...

One of them attacked Kersauzon's ship "Geronimo" last year.
http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/default2.asp?section=11&article=8705

http://www.oceanrowing.com/AnneQuemere_restart/11-20_january.htm

What is even more fun is that the race is called the "Jules Verne Trophy", and Kersauzon is also an animator in a radio show called "The Big Heads" (les grosses têtes)...

 

[Chauzu]

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46539

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

I'm confused. Was this just a baby or something? It says "the body of the colossal squid can be much bigger than the giant squid, which can weigh up to 900 kg." But this one only weighs 330 kg, and has 5 meter tentacles compared to 13 meter tentacles on the giant one. So, is it a baby, or what?