Why Hasn't the Colossal Squid Been Filmed Before?
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- We know the colossal squid exists and where it lives, but how come no one has been able to film it in it's natural habitat before?
#squid #seacreatures #seacreature #deepsea #submersible #oceanexploration #antarctica 
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“Guys guys! The whale is hunting let’s tune in!”
*cues 2 hours of pitch black footage*
Lol thinking the same thing
Even if it had night vision, its so dark that you wouldn't see anything. And even IF you could see, there is no guarantee you'd get a good look at the squid in the first place.
@pepperbytez8128 Fr, that squid is gonna wrap around the whale or something lol
@@alinatater Yeah and/or it will knock the camera off in the fight.
I think this happened, but with a giant squid.
People don't understand how monstrously huge & dark the ocean really is.
It's also really really heavy.
To be fair, the scale of it's size is really hard to comprehend.
Then how did anyone find the squid before? If they can go down and see it then they can have a camera in the submersible
DARK is the key word here, the Abyssal Zone is so beyond human conceptions of darkness. You shine a light and it’s just… nothing.
@@youtubehandlesareridiculous we found them dead on the beach many time, we have both photographs and taxonomies too
Colossal squids really dropped their location and said “pull up then”
LMFAO
Bro got doxxed and said ur not that guy
The kraken
Colossal squid on ig live
They're really in the trenches
"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in your area, are you sure whatever you're doing is worth it?"
Warning: Creature attack.
Abandoned ship theme plays:
Yeah, I have my grappler and drill arm so i am capable of fighting back as it’s AI wasn’t intended to deal with that at all😎
this brings back ptsd
Yes! The comment I've been searchin' for!
The good news is you’ve attracted a colossal squid!
The bad news is you’ve attracted a colossal squid!
Collosal squid only eat 30 grams per day
@@pinyw683yeah sure... I guess you know that because you have seen a stomach of one right? 😆
@@pinyw683 Eating is one thing but messing you up with those tentacles and beak is another
@@CollegeBallYouknowwell that thing fights with sperm whale it can surely mess up a human in a rover
Youre forgetting theres always something bigger.
“I’m the armoured squid, and he’s the colossal squid.”
Warhammer Squid goes hard
What is the armoured squid 💀
@@theredraider3860 It’s an “Attack on Titan” reference
would the beast squid be fuzzy cause i wanna pet it already
Humboldt hoover
I think a lot of people don't realize that the giant squid, less elusive in contrast, was first photographed alive in its natural habitat only in 2005. It is no simple feat to capture footage of these ocean dwellers.
"One does not simply [film a Giant Squid]."
“Why are there no videos of colossal squid?”
I don’t know, Susan why don’t you dive 1000 meters under the ocean and take one?
that's sorta the fish people jobs
She would, but their last submersible imploded so... 😏
Well, the question makes sense at first. Maybe it was asked before very much deep thought was out into it.
Under the Arctic Ocean, to boot!
@@randomguy6152even if we had the technology hell nah I’m not going down there 😂 you just can’t pay me enough
People who can't find their keys in the front hallway wondering why we can't find things in the whole ocean.
not the whole ocean, but a few specific areas of it that happen to also be some of the most difficult to reach and inhospitable ones.
Lmao so true
More like people who can’t find their bedroom door without a light asking why we can’t film something in the dark
More like people asking questions and being abused in the comments for no reason
@@DiggitySliceok Mr yapper what are you on about know
also not to mention i think alot of researchers would draw the line at being in a tiny prey sized submersible with a colossal squid big enough to eat my house
I am detecting multiple leviathan class life forms
@@Bruh-jm9orAre you sure that whatever you're after is worth it?
Your house must be incredibly small if a collosal squid can eat it
Collosal squids only eat 30 grams pf food per day
It won't eat your house it's only 10 metres long
All subnautica players watching this are both thrilled and terrified by the thought of seeing a colossal squid
"I've seen bigger"
@@camoking3609the bigger it is the more you get ptsd
Its like the “but can he beat Goku” joke, but instead its
“But can he beat a Reaper”
Who cares
@@winzyl9546 wah wah
It's wild to think we've managed to take a photo of a Black Hole, but not a single one of a Colossal Squid.
That photo is more like an incrediby faint pattern of radio waves being detected by a bunch of different antennae everywhere in the equivalent of an extremely long-exposure film, but instead it's a whole bunch of raw analog signal output that is translated into an absolutely monstrous amount of digital data that had to be sifted through by supercomputers and transported physically by the cartful of hard-drives to produce even the fuzzy donut-shaped splotch we have now. So calling it a "photo" in the traditional sense is a little oversimplifying, but even still we have the technology to do all of that and yet we lack the capability to reach the deep.
You're right, it really puts into perspective how hard this is. (or maybe how underfunded life sciences are compared to astronomy and physics research)
I hope I get to see a real Colossal Squid in my lifetime
You should hope you don't get to see one in ocean.
@@kilgor5793people found carcasses
Living or dead? since you can look up the dead ones right now.
@@kilgor5793are you sure?
@@kilgor5793We have dead ones. What do you mean they're not real?
Just kindly ask the colossal squid for some selfies.
They seem as smart as their octopus cousins, so I bet a camera would be _very_ interesting to them. Unless they eat it.
octopus is a friend
cuttlefish is a friend
squid is an enemy
you DONT ask squid for some selfie
those guys in real life are ruthless hunter@@Gyrfalcon312
@@Gyrfalcon312 i heard that they have relatively short lifespans
@@Gyrfalcon312 they gonna eat the camera like a curious baby, and maybe we can see the insides of its digestive organs
I don’t know if they would be smart, they have a very slow metabolism, so their brain might also not be as great as some other squids.
They are that rare pokemon that only spawn in a square of a volcano and have spawn rate of 1% lol
They also only spawn on 6 specific tiles in the area, and which 6 tiles they are change daily
Petition to change its name to “Comically large Squid” 😤
Titan Squid
The ocean is less like a giant pool and more like space: it’s mostly empty, dark, and very scary.
Oh the Ocean is much much much worse than space..... These things for example only exist in the ocean 😂 Plus we've mapped more of space than the oceans so id rather go up there then down 😂
@@connorburnett6135in fairness that’s a misleading stat that gets thrown around a lot, we’ve mapped a huge amount of the sea floor, most of the ocean only remains unexplored because it’s literally just miles and miles of pitch black open water, there’s nothing to really “map”
@@connorburnett6135the edges and confines of space are literally limitless, whereas the ocean is a set amount of space to explore. It's safe to say we've explored more of the ocean (~24%+) compared to space where there is no end, only an infinite horizon
I mean if you overthink it and let your imagination go unchecked sure.
@goose2888 I think something to think about is that it would be easier to hide a base in the ocean than on other planets, we have mapped more accurately overall other planets better than our own seeing as though most of it is water here and mapped with little precision
The most film footage of a colossal squid is an episode of the animated series Octonauts, where they draw the squid in a very cute way and have no real footage.
Still better than the disney lemmings
Everyone knows that watching 5 seasons of Octonauts essentially means you have a phd in marine biology just the universities trying to discredit a valid source of information
@@Fish_tank75 I was obsessed with nature when I was younger and I watched octonauts religiously. I can confirm it turned me into a marine life genius
@@Fish_tank75As Captain Barnacle intended
@@Fish_tank75octonauts means you can explain sionphores in someway
"But if anyone were to do it, they need the most advanced research vessel"
*movie starts*
Explorers: “I don’t wanna look for the colossal squid anymore, Grandpa!”
Scientists: “Well that’s too damn bad!!!”
😂
I love it when random people tell experts an obvious seeming solution as if the experts who spend thousands of hours studying the subject wouldnt have thought of it and already ruled it out.
What I'm hearing the problem is just more money.
Well yes but also technology and the general environment... who knows, maybe global warming will melt the ice and we can explore that region better @@Grintock
@@BeehiveMCyay… oh.
this!
I think some people make these obvious suggestions not because they think the researchers haven't thought of it before but instead because they want the researcher to explain why the obvious solutions wouldn't work.
That question is the ocean equivilent of "well i live in Nevada and ive never seen a mountain lion!" Yeah. Theyre specifically good at that
Oddly enough in my short time living in Boulder city Nevada a mountain lion showed up on our street at like 3am
@MJonMBoviM I love nevada its entirely chaos here XD
@@kitcat-xn1mn if it's not the people in the city it's the animals outside it
@MJonMBoviM my thoughts exactly. And occasionally it's animals that absolutely should not be in a city that are and are just as confused as we are XD
Subnautica fans: “I've seen worse!”
Iron Lung fans: *Thousand-Yard Stare*
Dredge fans: "This is why I stay at the surface."
What if we lure Mr squid out with tasty treats? "Who's a good squidy ink squid?"
Give him some tea and i`ll bet he`ll come ashore!
Blasts ink your face
Doesn't elaborate
Leaves
Funny thing is you might be on the right track with that. They filmed a giant squid using this technique, sort of. They made a robotic jellyfish that is found down there. That jellyfish has a specific light pattern it emits when it is being attacked. Giant squid are not interested in the jellyfish, but the squid figured out that if the jellyfish is being attacked then the fish that is attacking it is big enough to be a good meal. So when the robot jellyfish was sent down, it would flash a pattern of lights similar to that of the real jellyfish that was under attack. A giant squid came over to investigate and see if he there was a fish attacking the jellyfish he could eat.
They are known as Big Tentacle. No fish has ever taken a photo in focus. It’s a phenomenon. 😊
I see what you did there, and I appreciate it.
“Big tentacle”
Sounds like the name of an anime…
@@Thathumanoverthere1701 ❤️
@@LeeeroyJenkinsI thought it was the conglomerate that owns the squid fishing industry? You know, like Big Pharma?
@@LeeeroyJenkinsHP Lovecraft if he had no vocabulary:
Meanwhile in Colossal squid world : Why we never have human video footage.
😂
Go into the woods at night with a flashlight and try to find an overly melanated deer.
It's also important to point out that the mythical Giant Squid was ONLY first caught and filmed by the world in 2007!! I remember when it happened and didn’t realize how important that moment was until I understood more about secretive and endangered species (I was a kid when it happened). Fascinating stuff.
That's what I'm saying... did I just imagine seeing that footage countless times over the past 20 years or so... There is footage out there of at least one but, if I recall correctly, it was only the tentacles
Let's just build a fake nuclear powered sperm whale to follow the real ones around 😂
National Geographic is gonna steal your idea
Lmao
That is what we call, a Nuclear submarine, unfortunately those aren't particularly easy to build
(Or keep afloat, if you ask the Soviets/Russians)
@@glauberglousger956if it leaks you have Godzilla now
Short answer. They are about that life and we aren’t 😭.
"Several leviathan class lifeforms detected. Are you sure what you're doing is worth it?"
Drill arm + grappler say yes😎
We don't know how sensitive they may be to scientists poking around in their only breeding place. They may get spooked, leave, then a whole batch of eggs dies and now they're endangered, and 20 years later they're extinct.
Don't worry National Geographic will do it, they can literally film anything in it's natural habitat 😂
Especially saggy boobies! 😂
Fun fact, a lot of those natural habitats you see are staged habitats within large warehouses/storage facilities. Used to recreate the environment in which the animal they are showcasing hunts in
@@TempestsFurysource?? this is messing with my brain
@@TempestsFuryI've never heard that. I have heard that they cut film together to make a better story.
@@TempestsFury source: yes
Fun fact: Although they may seem scary, collosal squids eat less grams of food than a kitten eats per day. (Collosal squids eat 30 grams daily, while kittens younger than 5 weeks eat 35 grams daily)
Even though Google agree with this statement i believe that's pure bullshit
Alright, but how do we know that?
@@gyurka4444 Dead Collosal Squad stomachs
@@NotKages Yea, you are probably right, that's the only logical way in this case to know that. But I have other questions: Do we really have enough data about this to assert that we know exactly how much food is consumed daily by a species which is so rare to observe? I know there were colossal squid carcasses that researhers could examine, but were there enough? I mean this 30 gramms, couldn't it be just the amount that analyzed squid or squids could find and eat for it's last meal? Is it really common for this species or is it just the data we could receive from the little we have?
Colossal*
I love knowing there's colossal squid out there at this very moment
people: "why haven't we filmed colosal squid before?"
litterally every scientist on earth: "money"
I like how random people in RUclips comments think people in a specialized field with their specialized degree haven't thought of some of the first ideas that come to mind
We HAVE filmed a LIVING COLOSSAL SQUID! It was near the surface and got hauled onto a boat from out of the water before dying in a failed attempt to preserve it. I don't remember if it was already in poor health before it came to the boat, but it's possible. This happened years ago, I just don't remember what condition it was in before it was lifted out. You can find the video on RUclips pretty easily :)
That isn’t the kind of film we need, though.
I have no idea why but the phrase “possible icebergs” is really funny to me
*Titanic starts playing*
Putting a 360 VR recording devise on a whale sounds like a great idea.
The last line would be the great first line of a movie about finding one
You guys do some amazing work, keep it up!
We spend so much time working on exploring outer space yet when i comes on to exploring our own planet we get stumped lol
I can hold my breath for almost a minute, I volunteer to find the squid.
RUclips commenters really do believe they somehow know better than experts 😂😂
Imagine the day we get to see a whale and squid fight in nature. It will be truly incredible.
"The Simpsons did it"
(just kidding)
They already seen a whale and a giant squid fight
The way I’ve always imagined it myself is this.. you want to go to the Sahara desert to see a zebra, but imagine that the landscape extends 20,000ft vertically and is 10x larger then the actual Sahara… and the zebra can float around at whatever depth it chooses.
I just imagined seeing a colosal squid in person, what a sight it must be
Silly question, but how was it found out to exist? Im curious :)
Same
You could probably just google that info
Dead squids that come ashore
On top of what the comment on top of me said, sperm whales often had tentacles shaped wounds when they came to the surface after hunting in the deep for prey, huge marks , meaning something huge (with tentacles, and they compared the marks and found that it is a squid's) made those wounds, plus i believe at some point one of the sperm whales that was observed had a huge ripped tentacle stuck on its body? Cant remember.
Two dead and partially mutilated ones have been pulled up I believe. The most research was in 2008(? Memory slightly shaky on years) on a carcass that is still on display at The Museum of New Zealand. There are videos of it being examined on their website but you may not be able to access them in the US without a VPN or using a foreign browser (when I was first looking it up my American Chromebook showed nothing but using a German browser on my phone got it)
And the plan is now to just attract a Collossal squid because yes attracking a Giant Predator is part of our job.
“Warning: Detecting Multiple Leviathan Class Lifeforms In The Region”
I assume that like normal squids, colossal squids are transparent, meaning that you would probably see a huge floating eye
Love giant squid content make more
giant squids and colossal squids are different species of squid!
@@firstletterofthealphabet7308I think he’s more referring to their size not their names
Icebergs are monitored worldwide by the U.S. National Ice Center which is the only organization that names and tracks all Antarctic icebergs larger than 1650 meters and they provide global ice analyses and forecasts for all ships so they can have safe voyage
This would be sheet ice she is talking about not icebergs.
What about below the size
It's still extremely dangerous to traverse the poles on ship, also we are talking about expeditions here, not casual travel and it's not icebergs but icesheets she's talking about, a ship can easily get stuck in those
Also icebergs are much much bigger underwater and those could be a big threat to submersibles.
@@ol4414 Yeah, look at what happened to the Titanic especially.
Unpopular Opinion:: A little Mystery is nice.
nah get me out there with a North Face jacket and an IPhone i’ll get you some colossal squid footage
We need to make little “drones/ submarines” that are unmanned and can also FILM IN THE DARKNESS OF WATER.
didn't know armin and birthcontrol were squids 💀💀
Excuse me, Armin and WHO???
@@ez_lacr0ix141 burrito
I wanted to make the AoT joke first lol!
@@ez_lacr0ix141*Burrito
BIRTHCONTROL 😭😭😭
This is some Subnautica Below Zero type shi
Imagine scientists poke around the wrong trench and awakens a kaiju
Just dress the sub as a spicy female colossal squid
Walace and Gromit type plan
What if instead of a colossal squid, they found godzilla and other monstrosities instead lol!
Dream on😂
Lets hope to find out if sea serpent and other sea monsters are truly real and not just weird story with unclear truth from ancient explorer
Real
The only way we could confirm a sighting would probably be a drone that blends into the squids environment, but even then it would be difficult to know exactly how it would look
"Why haven't they been filmed before?"
Can't find the light switch. Submarines keep stubbing their toes on a chair.
Don't worry, the ice won't be a problem in a few years!
Ha! So true, sad but true
Good
Noooo. D:
The laugh when talking about tagging whales.
Never done it, never seen someone do it, but that sounds so hard it made me laugh too.
Thank you for the post!
Idea: Strap a strong camera to a rock shaped like the squid's favourite food and tie a string to it
Well this all sounds like the opening plot to a scifi monster movie that I would absolutely watch lol
🦑
It's easier to tag Cthulhu than a collosal squid, those fuckers can really hide.
Getting footage of a colossal squid is like finding a needle in a haystack at night with no light to help you.
I always figured that they were just too freakin creepy for anyone to want to be next to, but then again I’ve seen some scary things be filmed in the ocean before
Give technology another 10 years, we will get that clip.
There's also the small possibility that the colossal squid will pull the research ship underwater.
sperm whales hunt them, no animal on earth can pull a modern research ship underwater
If we made filming colossal squid a tiktok challenge, they'd definitely do it in a month, tho there will be sacrifices
I bet if you just insert the command to get rid of the ocean you can see all the colossal squids then.
Lives in deep ocean:fine
Near fuking Antarctica ...bruhh
“Some lady: It’s hard to catch a whale”
“A Chinese fisherman somewhere: hold my saki”
Perhaps the real collosal squids were the friends we made along the way 😊😊😊.
Sounds more like you're challenging some scientist
You are covering up the writing with more writing at the bottom of the screen, making it illegible.
That's just a limit of YT's shorts format. I don't know why they don't let the UI go away when you tap the video or full screen it like they do with regular videos. People making shorts just don't take that into account most of the time.
There is one other reason a Colossal Squid has never been photographed. They eat photographers.
We all know Francine Smith filmed them irl but kept it a secret so she could reconnect with Stan.
Imagine taking a submarine down there on pitch darkness with the only thing is the sub lights and seeing a huge ass eyeball staring at you 💀
when a sperm whale gets a colossal squid, surely it makes a noise. Figure out what that noise is and emit that from the submersible submarine. Record results. you’re welcome.
lol and then? who is it supposed to attract
You're asking them to learn the sperm whales' language, as though it's no big deal.
Ah, yes, the simple, simple, task of translating the speech of animals.
Your username lives up to the comment
Your comment:
1. Learn how to speak sperm whale somehow even though it’s probably impossible.
2. Ask a colossal squid to go to the surface using the language of the thing that eats it somehow.
Time for a Cyclops expedition!... if only. 😅
It's incredibly rare to even be able to film giant squid without risking your life. One of the first was amazing and left the man who got stuck in their feeding group almost killed by one who grabbed him and was attempting to eat him. Luckily he used the camera to prevent the beak from getting at him, and he managed to get freed very very close to being drowned. Imagine that, but only in arctic waters and even less likely if at all, to come up to areas we can go to pressure wise.
Like a video game, upgrade your equipments, hold the timing, fight the ods
Could have sworn we already had footage of one from like a deep sea drilling rig or something like that
That footage is actually of a Giant Squid! They are a bit more common than Colossal Squids, and have similar sizes, though, Colossal Squids are much, MUCH heavier, while Giant Squids are longer.
we can put a man on the moon but we cant find a colossal squid
That's like trying to go out at night with a flashlight trying to find a mouse in the forrest thats specifically trying to hide from you once you come near
Comically Large Squid
"they'd need the world's most expensive research vehicle" my arse, gimme a 6 pack, a man from Florida, and a camera, and a sign that says free 6 pack for video of colossal squid
Have we tried going pspsps underwater?
I'm surprised spongebob doesn't live near a colossal squid.
I love how many of these questions can be answered by “ocean big”
Needle in a haystack is an understatement
Imagine you're in a submarine and you find one of these things, only for it to think you're food
Me on a big ship searching for collosal squids: oh no a really big ice berg.
Yes lets tell the more experienced and professionals how to do their job better, sounds like a boss.