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gonetobaja said:This is the clip that I shot with my dive team leader Mr. Scott Cassell on a photo shoot for Outside Magazine. On one shot you will see a squid come in from about 25 feet at full speed with tentacles first in a point. He comes straight in and grabs Scotts fin. They are smart, a diver on SCUBA can go in and safely interact, however a fisherman who falls out of his boat at night is in trouble. Our best footage that we have on squid attack is going to be released in a DVD in March. The first showing will be at the www.ncups.org meeting on March the 10th in San Francisco.
Yes I have personaly been grabbed, but not bitten by a Humboldt squid.
See it with your own eyes? Pay attention at 1:18sec.
http://209.242.151.5/seawolves/DancingWithDemons.wmv
That is really cool! If I get a chance to get down to Baja sometime soon, that looks really fun! Of course, I don't see the price on the web site, so maybe I'll have to wait until I make my first million or something (since there's a $500 deposit, I can extrapolate that it's not dirt-cheap, but the web site sure comes across as a very professional operation, so I expect it's a fair price for a great service... )
One question: in the video, it looks like there are clouds of something in the water... I'm assuming that's because the squids are inking, but it looks different from what I've seen before-- it looks like the squid is both grabbing the diver and inking, while I was under the impression that squids' inking was almost always part of an escape behavior, so it seems very weird for a squid to be both grabbing the diver and inking at the same time... it doesn't look like the diver's doing much to stop the squid from leaving if it feels like it... am I interpreting it correctly, or is something else going on?
Thanks for the cool video!