Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" video inside

A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, a remote control submersible's camera has captured an eerie surprise: an alien-like, long-armed, and—strangest of all—"elbowed" Magnapinna squid.

In a brief video from the dive recently obtained by National Geographic News, one of the rarely seen squid loiters above the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico on November 11, 2007.

The clip—from a Shell oil company ROV (remotely operated vehicle)—arrived after a long, circuitous trip through oil-industry in-boxes and other email accounts.

"Perdido ROV Visitor, What Is It?" the email's subject line read—Perdido being the name of a Shell-owned drilling site. Located about 200 miles (320 kilometers) off Houston, Texas (Gulf of Mexico map), Perdido is one of the world's deepest oil and gas developments.

The video clip shows the screen of the ROV's guidance monitor framed with pulsing inputs of time and positioning data.

In a few seconds of jerky camerawork, the squid appears with its huge fins waving like elephant ears and its remarkable arms and tentacles trailing from elbow-like appendages.

Despite the squid's apparent unflappability on camera, Magnapinna, or "big fin," squid remain largely a mystery to science.

ROVs have filmed Magnapinna squid a dozen or so times in the Gulf and the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

The recent video marks the first sighting of a Magnapinna at an oil development, though experts don't think the squid's presence there has any special scientific significance.

But the video is evidence of how, as oil- and gas-industry ROVs dive deeper and stay down longer, they are yielding valuable footage of deep-sea animals.

Some marine biologists have even formed formal partnerships with oil companies, allowing scientists to share camera time on the corporate ROVs—though critics worry about possible conflicts of interest.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... pinna.html

Video in the link.

gooseberry fool looks strawberry floating scary mayne, like some gooseberry fool outta Indepence Day or something.

Also, some people think that aliens might live in the sea as it would be much harder to find them, anybody believe this???

gooseberry fool JUST GOT REAL.

BobbyDigital wrote:Also, some people think that aliens might live in the sea as it would be much harder to find them, anybody believe this???

what

The camera control :fp:

Looks like an evolved Facehugger.

Why would aliens, who obviously have the technology to travel hundreds of lightyears, be hiding in our oceans? If I had the technology to visit an alien world (the inhabitants of which could barely travel to their satellite) I wouldn’t be too worried about them. And if I wanted to just observe them without them knowing, I wouldn’t be swimming around in the water where I couldn’t bloody see them anyway!

Fm wrote:
BobbyDigital wrote:Also, some people think that aliens might live in the sea as it would be much harder to find them, anybody believe this???

what

Yo you ain't heard the idea that inteligent life might live in the deep ocean???

We can't get to them and they can't get to us for similar reasons.

I ain't saying it's true, but it is a possibility.

We know more about space than we do our own oceans mayne.

Fm wrote:
BobbyDigital wrote:Also, some people think that aliens might live in the sea as it would be much harder to find them, anybody believe this???

what

What he meant to say is that he saw an old James Cameron movie and wanted to share the exciting new questions that rose.

Moggy wrote:Why would aliens, who obviously have the technology to travel hundreds of lightyears, be hiding in our oceans? If I had the technology to visit an alien world (the inhabitants of which could barely travel to their satellite) I wouldn’t be too worried about them. And if I wanted to just observe them without them knowing, I wouldn’t be swimming around in the water where I couldn’t bloody see them anyway!

Fair point, but what if it was like how I just described. Maybe not aliens from out of space.

In theory there could be life just as inteligent as us down there mayne.

True we don’t know much about the oceans. I wouldn’t mind betting that their isn’t anything more intelligent than dolphins in the oceans though.

That squid is creepy looking but doesn’t look that intelligent. I reckon it would be happy to attach itself to your face and lay eggs inside you though. Mayne.

BobbyDigital wrote:
In theory there could be life just as inteligent as us down there mayne.

Drunken_Master wrote:
BobbyDigital wrote:
In theory there could be life just as inteligent as us down there mayne.

I was gonna save this for someone else but I guess I should have it. :fp:

It's possible their is intelligent life at the bottom of the ocean but they would have to be more primative than us, otherwise they would have sent up pressurised vehicles and robots by now (sort of like we do but in reverse).

Extralife wrote:It's possible their is intelligent life at the bottom of the ocean but they would have to be more primative than us, otherwise they would have sent up pressurised vehicles and robots by now (sort of like we do but in reverse).

How the strawberry float would they develop the microchip underwater? Or anything involving combustion, for that matter?

Extralife wrote:It's possible their is intelligent life at the bottom of the ocean but they would have to be more primative than us, otherwise they would have sent up pressurised vehicles and robots by now (sort of like we do but in reverse).

Wrong!

We haven't managed to get any where near the full depths of the sea mayne, the deepest part is apparantly like 7 miles deep, that footage is from like 2 miles down.

So they could be just as clever as us in theory, but not have the technology to reach the surface, just like we don't have the tecnology to reach the bottom (no homo).

They probably use a deep underwater cave as their technical laboratory.

Sweet camera work there, slugger! :lol:

This is all very profound, Bobby.

BobbyDigital wrote:just like we don't have the tecnology to reach the bottom (no homo).

$ilva $hadow wrote:
BobbyDigital wrote:just like we don't have the tecnology to reach the bottom (no homo).

I'll admit that that did make me laugh too. :lol:

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