Elusive giant squid caught on video for the first time – NHK showed footage of the silver-coloured creature, which had huge black eyes, as it swam against the current, holding a bait squid in its arms against the backdrop of dark oceanic depths.
The creature was about three metres long, but “estimated to be as long as eight metres if its two long arms had not been chopped off”, Kubodera told AFP.
“The submarine with three people on board, including Tsunemi Kubodera from the museum, followed the enormous mollusc to a depth of 900 metres as it swam into the ocean abyss.
That is almost 3,000 feet deep. The ocean is so cool.
