The attack of the squid

[Tokyo Tony]

This is an interesting read, and the comments are pretty funny too. I copied one of the comments below the link:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99FNF0O0&show_article=1

I dive that area. Humbolts are nothing to mess with. There's a claw on each and everyone of their thousands of suction cups. They weigh up to 100 lbs. and are many times more powerful than a man. In mexico, you wear motocross armor over your wetsuit, tie yourself to a line 30 feet or so down so they can't grab you and drag you to the depths and drown you. These people are crazy to dive openly with these veracious killers. A humbolt is about an inch at birth and lives only about a year and a half. They gain that 100lbs of weight and 5 feet of size in less than a year. They're the perfect hunter. Their beak rivals the largest parrot and can take a golf ball sized chunk out of you in one bite.

And yes, they are fabulous food. They're the thick calamari steaks at the fine eareries. Great to eat, not to dive with.

[Eddie Munster]

Very interesting indeed.

Of course, I share the opinion I wouldn't go swimming with them anymore than I'd go walking around at night in Africa. Actually, I just don't go walking around at night to begin with.

These people that want to swim with them are the same people that want to run with the bulls in Spain.

[slomoe]

Discovery did a good documentry on the humbolt. Very cool creatures.

[Tokyo Tony]

I found it interesting that they only live about a year and a half. So the go from an inch and a half to 100 lbs in that time. Pretty incredible. We need to inject whatever growth hormones they have into some bass :-)

[Palomar]

That is cool. I read that one

With them and the worry of the Bull shark more and more its changing!

Seen a special on the BullShark swimming up as far as Illinois they think??? They knew the shark can swim in rivers but to make it as far as Illinois is another :-/ They are worried? could change everything :-?

[Eddie Munster]

http://www.deeperblue.com/article.php/696/%200/0

Here's a good article on them as well. Guy had an encouter in which a 7' one attacked him but he had on armor. Scary stuff.