Kill any giant/interesting sealife you find?

[all4scuba05]

I'm not a "tree hugger" or "save the dolphins" type of person.
I'm more of a "save the children".

But lately it seems that whenever an interesting or gigantic sea creature gets found or caught, it's not enough that it was seen. They pull the creature out of the water, let it die, and send it to some scientist/marine biologist/museum so that they can then study the now dead creature.
It was an increduble LIVE creature and is now a DEAD one.

I say take a picture and let it live.

 

[DawgDiver]

The thing is it's not like they are fishing for these things, they accidentally caught a huge one.... they aren't endangering the species, and if they are, then the species is probably already beyond help.

By the way, that squid was probably already dead when they pulled it up.

 

[gangrel441]

I'm not a "tree hugger" or "save the dolphins" type of person.
I'm more of a "save the children".

But lately it seems that whenever an interesting or gigantic sea creature gets found or caught, it's not enough that it was seen. They pull the creature out of the water, let it die, and send it to some scientist/marine biologist/museum so that they can then study the now dead creature.
It was an increduble LIVE creature and is now a DEAD one.

I say take a picture and let it live.

If you're talking about the Colossal squid they caught, no one is taking a picture of it unless they catch it, and the act of catching it likely did it in long before it was ever hauled on to the boat. These guys are likely pretty plentyful, as they make up a significant portion of the diet of Sperm Whales, but they are deep creatures and not easy to find if they don't want to be found.

Not really sure what other "giant sea creatures" you are talking about here. There has been one giant squid (archeteuthus) and one colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) caught in the last year...hardly a dent in the population...

 

[all4scuba05]

so no one has ever seen one in its natural habitat yet they know there's lots of them?

Just because you're caught on a hook doesn't mean you're already dead .

 

[DawgDiver]

so no one has ever seen one in its natural habitat yet they know there's lots of them?

Just because you're caught on a hook doesn't mean you're already dead .

Where do you get that no one has ever seen one? This one is just the largest recorded. This isn't a new species... everybody knows about giant squids, they are a main course in the diet of sperm whales (as mentioned by the poster above).

 

[gangrel441]

so no one has ever seen one in its natural habitat yet they know there's lots of them?

Oh, gee...I don't know....possibly all those scars on the heads of sperm whales from their suckers...or the carcasses found in the sperm whales' bellies when they wash up on the shore?

Just because you're caught on a hook doesn't mean you're already dead .

No. You're right...being caught on a hook don't kill ya. That job is left to being hauled up from around 2000 ft. below sea level. It says right in the article that the critter was near death in the water when it broke the surface.

Do you actually read the articles, or just the headlines?

 

[all4scuba05]

Where do you get that no one has ever seen one? This one is just the largest recorded. This isn't a new species... everybody knows about giant squids, they are a main course in the diet of sperm whales (as mentioned by the poster above).

according to the following link, no one has ever seen one in its natural deep water habitat.
http://www.mote.org/index.php?subme...rium Exhibits, Mollusk Hall&category=Aquarium

 

[gangrel441]

according to the following link, no one has ever seen one in its natural deep water habitat.
http://www.mote.org/index.php?subme...rium Exhibits, Mollusk Hall&category=Aquarium

Again...see above...

You don't actually have to physically see a live one in its natural habitat to know there are plenty of them down there...plenty of other evidence.

 

[all4scuba05]

No. You're right...being caught on a hook don't kill ya. That job is left to being hauled up from around 2000 ft. below sea level. It says right in the article that the critter was near death in the water when it broke the surface.

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know that you and a group of marine biologists all went fishing with them and checked the squids pulse while still in the water and therefore knew that the creature was dying.

 

[gangrel441]

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know that you and a group of marine biologists all went fishing with them and checked the squids pulse while still in the water and therefore knew that the creature was dying.

You are a scuba diver, right? So you have some working knowledge of gas laws and physiology?