My daughter who is a Marine Biologist sent me with this article and pictures. Government scientists off Louisiana's coast reached down more than 1,500 feet and pulled up a giant squid - the first ever caught alive in the Gulf of Mexico. The last time scientists got a giant squid from the gulf to study was in 1954. The animal was floating, dead on the water. The squid was caught about 130 miles south of New Orleans.This one - an immature animal about 19 1/2 feet long and 103 pounds - was alive when it was netted July 30 during a practice trawl for a study planned in January of the endangered sperm whales in the northern Gulf of Mexico and their food supply.9/22/09
Gulf Giant Squid
My daughter who is a Marine Biologist sent me with this article and pictures. Government scientists off Louisiana's coast reached down more than 1,500 feet and pulled up a giant squid - the first ever caught alive in the Gulf of Mexico. The last time scientists got a giant squid from the gulf to study was in 1954. The animal was floating, dead on the water. The squid was caught about 130 miles south of New Orleans.This one - an immature animal about 19 1/2 feet long and 103 pounds - was alive when it was netted July 30 during a practice trawl for a study planned in January of the endangered sperm whales in the northern Gulf of Mexico and their food supply.
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is that h touching that nasty assed thing? uggh
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She WORKS (she says it's fun) with lots of nasty assed things like oysters, jelly fish, stingrays when does beach sampling.
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