Has Architeuthis been seen alive?

I'm guessing this means that they are standing by their story:

For wich media are you working?
It seems that you have not read our ^press realease, Interview in many newspapers radio, TV,... Onthis subject.
I think your mail is a joke
Regards

Régis Rassouli
Geronimo’s Press officer
Riva Com r:wink:

I'll ask him to clarify though :wink:

Emps
 
And he replies back:

I absolutely confirm it.
And eleven crew mebers could tell you that it’s strict reality
2 of them see it

I'll ask if they have notarised statements - its what they did when the Alecton spotted a giant squid in 1861:

Bouyer, F., Moquin-Tandon, A & Milne-Edwards, H. (1861) Poulpe géant observé entre Madère et Ténériffe. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 53. 1263 - 7.

Emps
 
The following is a post on the Physio & Bio board (page 2 of 2) that discussed this hoax (c/o Phil). Unfortunately the link no longer sends you to the retraction (admission that the thing was a hoax).
.........

Apparently the bare facts are, that the racing trimaran 'Geronimo'
got something snagged on its rudder, and they had to come to
a full stop to cut it loose and make repairs. Tongue-in-cheek,
they radioed their base-station to report that a Giant Squid had
attached itself to the boat and was hanging on for dear life.
They kept up the premise for several hours, but then listed the
incident in their official log simply as: stopped to repair rudder.
http://www.broadband-my-ass.com/strips/081602-14552.jpg

It now seems clear the whole thing was a big 'Fish Tale'. ...

The navigation on their grandsrecords.com site is a little wacky,
but the English-language news entry for 13-JAN reads:
"...a giant cephalopod became tangled up around the rudder blade.
It took over an hour before the creature released its grip..."
But I think they were speaking metaphorically. They're now
declining to carry the gag any futher than it's already gone.
http://www.lyricsdomain.com/lyrics/24076/

It was their base station / support center that called the media.

A photo posted later shows them dead in the water, mucking around
with a large net or sail lying in the water. Might be their 'Squid':

http://www.grandsrecords.com/ker/rec/fr/graph/minisite/photo/tjv2003/jour4_2.jpg
grandsrecords
 
Steve: Thanks for that - Phil was kind enough to PM it to me the other day :wink:

When you say:

Unfortunately the link no longer sends you to the retraction (admission that the thing was a hoax).

Is that the link to their Grands Records site? If so it might be possible to dig out a cached version from somewhere (although I'm drawing a blank at the moment).

Emps[/quote]
 

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