Urm, if you do, please, bring a flashlight and an entry level mobile phone to take pictures, totally de rigeur nowadays, high speed HD video is SO 2004...
Now, moving back to the original grounds for this thread, could anyone help me speculate on the nature of the white blotches on either side of the head of the Architeuthis photographed in attack mode? Keels? Part of the bait? The angle doesn't seem to support a view into the mantle cavity...
Wow, I'm no longer a larval mass!!!! (starts sobbing uncontrollably in humble gratitude)
Nope I reckon they would actively take the shark, wounded or otherwise! As far as I know squid don't scavenge........but who can say what we're going to find out as research carries on!!!
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