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How do you get two dead Giant Squid the size of a school bus from a fishing boat in Spain to a museum in Washington, DC, USA? Call in the Navy! Find out how Operation Calamari unfolded and how the museum managed to put their new Giant Squid on display. Photo Credit: Glenn Rankin, Smithsonian Institution
Download a transcript of this podcast read moreDuration: 3:33Published: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:59:18 +0000
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Description: Piglet squid swimming and inking Item Type: Video Title: Piglet squid from Cieba field Equatorial Guinea Species: Helicocranchia Site: Atlantic -- Northern Tropical Atlantic Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 79 Latitude: 1 deg 30' 00" N Longitude: 9 deg 30' 00" E Countries: West Africa -- Equatorial Guinea Rig: Pacific Vigilance Project Partners: Subsea 7 ROV: rov CE19 Deposited By: Dr Daniel Jones Deposited On: 19 July 2011
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Item Type: Video Title: Bigfin squid Species: Magnapinna sp. Behaviour: Swimming near subsea equipment Site: Atlantic -- Gulf of Mexico -- Tiger Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 2750 Latitude: 26 deg 10' 48" N Longitude: 94 deg 37' 23" W Countries: Mexico -- Gulf of Mexico Habitat: Tropical Muddy Sand Rig: Discoverer Deep Seas Project Partners: Transocean, Subsea 7, Chevron USA ROV: Hercules 8 Deposited By: Rob Curry Deposited On: 05 September 2008
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Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas)A Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) dashing in front of the ROV camera. This photo was taken at a depth of -481.8 meters in Sur Canyon as a part of a deep-sea coral expedition conducted by NMFS aboard the R/V Shimida in December, 2010.From
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Helicocranchia sp., ventral view of specimen from the vicinity of Kauai, partially restored. In this figure the mantle is scarcely represented as sufficiently elongate and the arms are probably shown as much too short and stocky.
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Cephalopods. Chiroteuthis lacerlosa Verrill; Loligo Pealei var. Borealis
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Indian Deep-Sea Mollusca. Chiroteuthis pellucida, from the Bay of Bengal, 922 fathoms
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Cephalopods. Ommastrephes illecebrosus V
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Taonius paso Lesueur, d'apres Joubin, face ventrale (Princesse-Alice).
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Histioteuthis de Bonelle. Bistioteuthis Bonelliana
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Megalocranchia fisheri, ventral view of type.
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Cephalopode Transparent : Grimalditeuthis Richardi. Le Transparence de ces mollusques est si parfaite qu'il devient parfois difficile de deisinguer l'ensemble de leur corps; en revanche, elle permet de faire de curieuses observations sur les fonctions de certains de leur organes
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Item Type: Image Title: Piglet squid Copyright: Serpent Project Species: Helicocranchia sp. Behaviour: Swimming Site: Atlantic -- South Atlantic -- Bonga Site Description: Seafloor, Equipment Depth (m): 1050 Latitude: 4 deg 33' 00" N Longitude: 4 deg 35' 00" E Countries: West Africa -- Nigeria Habitat: Tropical Man made, Tropical Mud Rig: Normand Progress Project Partners: Shell, SBM ROV: Triton XLS Deposited By: Rob Curry Deposited On: 13 March 2007
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Item Type: Image Title: Bigfin squid Copyright: Serpent Project Species: Magnapinna sp. Behaviour: Swimming in the water column. Site: Atlantic -- Gulf of Mexico -- Toledo Site Description: Midwater Depth (m): 3050 Latitude: 26 deg 15' 00" N Longitude: 94 deg 40' 00" W Countries: Mexico -- Gulf of Mexico Habitat: Tropical Water Column Rig: Discoverer Deep Seas Project Partners: Transocean, Subsea 7, Chevron USA ROV: Hercules 8 Deposited By: Rob Curry Deposited On: 13 March 2007
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Architeuthis dux, largest of the three known species of giant squid, may reach 16 meters (50 feet) and weigh nearly a ton
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Cephalopods. Archieuthis harveyi
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Ommastrephes illecebrosus.
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Taonius hyperboreus Stp., N. Atlantic.
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Ommastrephes hawaiiensis, ventral view of type [243].
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Grimaldituthis Richardi, d'apris Joubin, face ventrale (Princesse-Alice).
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Item Type: Image Title: Piglet squid Copyright: Serpent Project Species: Helicocranchia sp. Behaviour: Swimming Site: Atlantic -- South Atlantic -- Bonga Site Description: Seafloor, Equipment Depth (m): 1050 Latitude: 4 deg 33' 00" N Longitude: 4 deg 35' 00" E Countries: West Africa -- Nigeria Habitat: Tropical Man made, Tropical Mud Rig: Normand Progress Project Partners: Shell, SBM ROV: Triton XLS Deposited By: Rob Curry Deposited On: 13 March 2007
