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Other squid attacks
Squid attacks seem a good opportunity to see live squids - some other reports I tried tracking down online:
The Brunswick
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/squid.htm
this seems to suggest 3 squid while this suggests one:
http://www.trueauthority.com/cryptozoology/squid.htm
Obviously just a little lack of clarity
http://www.dynamicearth.com/articles/monsters3.htm
So there are logs then?
More detail:
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Geyser/5306/architeuthis.htm
there is no other mention of Arne Gronningsaeter (or Gronningsater) online in this context. I assume the reference is to the Ellis is to the book I mentioned above:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140286764/
and gets recommended by Loren Coleman:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/2OVXW58TKOXXR/
War stories
This seems a little vague - any other info:
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/squid.htm
http://www.darkensouls.com/corner/giantsquid.htm
Really good article on the whole thing:
http://www.dynamicearth.com/articles/monsters3.htm
From an interesting study into how practicial it would be for giant squid to be able to attack (note its a PDF):
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~biol438/Reports/Squid.PDF
[edit: Ah more 'detail':
http://nm.essortment.com/squidgiantlarg_rehq.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0203/S00159.htm
a bit of a differnt tale:
http://www.bayweekly.com/year02/issueX47/burtonX47.html
Still pretty damn vague though.]
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Again the reports are the same or very, very vague (respectively) so any other information on these?
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On a side note it appears global warming may be killing them:
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/18158/newsDate/14-Oct-2002/story.htm
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Some other links that turned up:
http://www.believe.hostmb.com/giantsquid.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0423_030423_seamonsters.html
http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/odyssey/20020705_log_transcript.html
Emps
Squid attacks seem a good opportunity to see live squids - some other reports I tried tracking down online:
The Brunswick
The Brunswick was a 15,000 ton auxiliary tanker owned by the Royal Norwegian Navy. In the 1930's it was attacked at least three times by giant squid. In each case the attack was deliberate as the squid would pull along side of the ship, pace it, then suddenly turn, run into the ship and wrap it's tentacles around the hull. The encounters were fatal for the squid. Since the animal was unable to get a good grip on the ship's steel surface, the animals slid off and fell into the ship's propellers.
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/squid.htm
this seems to suggest 3 squid while this suggests one:
Some dismiss the notion of a squid attacking a boat, but that very occurrence has been documented in the 1930's. In fact, it was the Brunswick, an auxiliary tanker in the Royal Norwegian Navy, that was attacked. The giant squid paced the ship, then turned and aggressively attacked the ship. Three times this happened, until the squid, who could not get a good grip on the metal hull, slipped and fell into the propellers. No damage was done to the Brunswick, as its immense size dwarfed the squid. It was quite an amazing occurrence, and it went to show that these creatures are certainly capable of attacking sailing vessels.
http://www.trueauthority.com/cryptozoology/squid.htm
Obviously just a little lack of clarity
Another account of a giant squid attacking a ship is given in the logs of the Brunswick, a Norwegian Trawler. In the logs an account is given of a giant squid attacking this large ship three different times, before the squid finally slid into the ship's propellers and was killed.
http://www.dynamicearth.com/articles/monsters3.htm
So there are logs then?
More detail:
A more recent account occurred in the Pacific between 1930 and 1933. The incident was not reported until 1946 by Arne Gronningsaeter, who was then master of the freighter, Brunswick. He tells the story of a squid swimming along side his ship at a speed of twenty to twenty-five knots, and ramming into the side of the ship. The animal was then caught in the propeller and was ground to pieces (Ellis, 1994).
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Geyser/5306/architeuthis.htm
there is no other mention of Arne Gronningsaeter (or Gronningsater) online in this context. I assume the reference is to the Ellis is to the book I mentioned above:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140286764/
and gets recommended by Loren Coleman:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/2OVXW58TKOXXR/
War stories
This seems a little vague - any other info:
There is at least one report from World War II of survivors of a sunken ship being attacked by a giant squid that ate one of the party
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/squid.htm
In World War II, survivors of sunken ships reported being menaced by giant squid in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
http://www.darkensouls.com/corner/giantsquid.htm
Other accounts tell of giant squid grabbing men from the waters as ships were sank in World War I and II
Really good article on the whole thing:
http://www.dynamicearth.com/articles/monsters3.htm
Some shipwrecked sailors were allegedly attacked by a giant squid during World War 2 as they floated in their lifeboats. A sailor was said to have been plucked from his boat by a giant tentacle, never to be seen again. However, as with many things found on
the internet, these “reports” should be taken with a grain of salt.
From an interesting study into how practicial it would be for giant squid to be able to attack (note its a PDF):
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~biol438/Reports/Squid.PDF
[edit: Ah more 'detail':
During World War 2, a giant squid attacked sailors. Their ship sank, and they drifted in the sea in a small lifeboat, hoping for rescue. In the middle of the night, a huge tentacle came over the side and grabbed a sailor. His friends pulled it off before it dragged him over the side of the lifeboat, but the suckers of the gigantic tentacle put circular wounds on the sailor’s chest. The giant squid stalked them all night long, and sadly, pulled another sailor overboard and ate him.
http://nm.essortment.com/squidgiantlarg_rehq.htm
During the Second World War a giant squid attacked sailors whose ship had sunk and they drifted in a small lifeboat hoping for rescue. In the middle of the night, a huge tentacle came over the side of the lifeboat and grabbed a sailor. His friends managed to pull it off before it dragged him over the side but the suckers of the tentacle had inflicted huge circular wounds on his chest.
The giant squid is said to have stalked them all night and, eventually, it had its way when it managed to pull another sailor overboard to his death.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0203/S00159.htm
a bit of a differnt tale:
Back during World War II, two men in a boat off Newfoundland almost made up part of the diet of a particular squid who worked a tentacle into their large dory. They cut it off with an axe — and that’s about the closest any human has been to a live supersquid.
http://www.bayweekly.com/year02/issueX47/burtonX47.html
Still pretty damn vague though.]
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Again the reports are the same or very, very vague (respectively) so any other information on these?
----------------------
On a side note it appears global warming may be killing them:
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/18158/newsDate/14-Oct-2002/story.htm
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Some other links that turned up:
http://www.believe.hostmb.com/giantsquid.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0423_030423_seamonsters.html
http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/odyssey/20020705_log_transcript.html
Emps