http://www.livejournal.com/community/_octopus_/2712.html

Could anyone with a half decent understanding of Russian help me out with this one? It appears to be a wonderfully preserved subadult (?) M. hamiltonii (eyes and all!), and I wonder whether it got lost to science, or not...

Part of the message seems to indicate a 1981 capture date? Going through links, again all in cyrillic, I seem to bump into a mantle length of 2,42 meters, and a total length of 5,1 meters, depth of capture between 750 and 770 meters. Ship's name appears to be "Эврика", which stands for "Eureka".

Hmm, sound familiar to anyone, as in: did I just relaunch a thread?

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PPS: I know it's colossal, slip of the keys...

I might be wrong in this, but isn't one of those two guys Malcolm Clark?

Nope, noses don't match, nor do ages, if 1981 were to prove correct

This picture has cropped up before and before Steve's 2003 specimen was the only picture of an adult any of us could find. According to Richard Ellis's book it was captured in 1981 by at a depth of 2500ft off Droning Maud Land in Antarctic waters by the Soviet trawler Evrica. The photo was taken by Alexander Remeslo.

Thanks a mil' Phil :grin:

PS: wrt the lightly coloured bits on the "cheeks" of your avatar, I mentioned this in another thread, any ideas on morphological relevance?

The man kneeling in the background wore a track suit to the Antarctic.

Wow.

is it a tracksuit or a suit with the 80s style thin tie? as much as i hate to bring it up, when i squint at clothes, i see sacha baron cohen-esque dress, no?

edit: oops, i missed the trim down the pants... sorry, i was focusing on the neck...

You lot crack me up! I'm afraid the picture you posted was of Dr Malcolm Clark, of NIWA, a good friend of mine, rather than Dr Malcolm Clarke, hopefully also a friend (who I have done a lot of work with in the past).

Kat has a translation of some of the old Russian work; I'm sure she'll post when she reads morrow. I recall being contacted by the photographer of that pic many years ago; there was some error re citation/acknowledgement of the pic (he corrected me). If I can dig that one up from the vaults I will do so (4 years ago!!).