
Sea Monsters: Search for the Giant Squid
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- 1998
- 55 min
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On Mexico's Sea of Cortez a marine
biologist prepares to encounter
an animal
local fisherman fear
more than sharks.
He is exploring a nether-world
between fantasy and fact,
pursuing a legendary monster of
the deep that does, in fact, exits...
Around the world,
strange carcasses drift ashore,
and fishermen catch huge creatures
they have never seen before.
Bit by bit, the secret life of this
strange animal is becoming known.
We can study its anatomy and the
behavior of its smaller relatives -
the bizarre and wonderful creatures
called cephalopods.
If they did live anywhere
where a man lived,
they would make mince-meat
of him in no time.
Fiction has always branded the giant
squid a ferocious enemy of man,
and some of its close relations
can be terrifying indeed.
Master of the deep ocean, the
sperm whale knows what we cannot,
but recently scientists have
found a way to learn its secrets.
"Whales were known to feed
on squids,
so it made sense to me try to
use the sperm whale
as our "hound dog" to lead
us to the giant squid.
"We really don't know very much
about what happens to whales
once they leave the surface.
So we're working with a mystery
that is hunting a mystery."
Descend with us now
into the dark and mysterious world
of the sperm whale
and its fearsome quarry,
Architeuthis, the giant squid.
For most of human history the ocean
has seemed a terrifying place.
Superstitious sailors reported many
strange sightings at sea.
Their stories summoned up a fantastic
variety of monsters
that threatened them.
These ominous creatures were often
blamed when disaster struck-
as it frequently did.
Perhaps the most feared of all was
called "the Kraken"
a many-armed beast of incredible
size and strength.
But most sea monsters proved to be
harmless or non-existent.
All but "the Kraken" - known
today as the giant squid.
The national Museum of Natural
History in Washington, D.C.
houses over a hundred thousand
squid specimens -
one of the largest collections in
the world.
In this working laboratory,
Smithsonian zoologist Dr. Clyde
Roper is engrossed
in the study of cephalopods,
such as octopuses, cuttlefish,
and squid -
and he welcomes the notoriety
of the giant squid.
"People have to have their monsters,
for some reason,
and, uh, of course squid make a
perfect monster
because I really think that, um,
especially for many
young people today
that the giant squid has become
the new dinosaur."
It's called Architeuthis,
Greek for "the ruling squid".
It is the perfect sea monster
in fantasy,
and a formidable predator in fact.
It dwarfs most other life in the sea.
suckered arms and tentacles
which ensnare its prey and jam it
into a parrot-like beak.
It glares upon the world with the
largest eyes in the animal kingdom.
Clyde Roper has a life-long
passion for the giant squid,
and is determined to see one
alive in its natural habitat.
It all began when he was a teenager,
working as a lobster fisherman
in New Hampshire.
"It doesn't take very long, when
you're working on, on cephalopods...
"squids especially, uh,
become aware
that giant squids actually exist.
"and, as a idealistic young fellow,
I was pretty, um,
incensed that so many...
"mis-truths could be told about
these magnificent animals.
And, as I got deeper and
deeper into it,
I understood why there were so
many misunderstandings
and that is because there were
so few specimens
that had ever been found,
been seen alive and,
until this day, has never been
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