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Giant Octopus Attacks Sub
Apostata writes "As reported by the CBC, 'Salmon researchers working on the Brooks Peninsula [British Columbia] were shocked last November when an octopus attacked their expensive and sensitive equipment.' Apparently it was caught on video, but no word on when/where it will be available. Apparently this is the first documented attack." Obviously the start of something bigger.
A link to the original video can be found on this page (video is 2.9Mbyte .mpg file). Also, a mirror of the video can be found here. The link above to the video page has a detailed summary of what happened:
A giant pacific octopus attacked a Seaeye Falcon ROV working off Vancouver Island as it was locating and recovering receivers tracking pacific offshore salmon migration.
The incident was caught on the ROV's video by Mike Wood of SubOceanic Sciences Canada. He had just located a data recorder and taken a grip of the cable with the ROV's manipulator arm, when suddenly an 80 lb octopus launched an attack.
With tentacles 'as thick as man's arm' and a bite that he believed can exert 1000 lbs pressure, Mike Wood feared the octopus would bite the camera cable or umbilical and trip out the Falcon ROV.
Not wanting to lose the receiver that he had just located he decided to take on the creature and after tightening his grip of the cable with the manipulator arm, revved the ROV's thrusters in reverse in an attempt to blast seabed particles at the creature. For a moment the octopus appeared to intensify its attack with its mantle flared but eventually the swirling fragments drove it away.
The giant pacific octopus, octopus dofleini, is the largest species of octopods and although it grows to an average weight of 50 to 90 lbs with a span of 16 ft, a monster 600 lbs one has been recorded. They are intelligent creatures who can negotiate mazes and learn to unscrew jars to remove food. No problem disassembling an ROV then.
Wasnt this an episode of Sealab 2021?
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This Page @ The CBC has the video in Real or Quicktime.
In the video some "octopus expert" said "could've been lookin' for a girlfriend, could've been senile".
Sounds like some kind of oceanographer joke: Why did the octopus attack the sub? "could've been lookin' for a girlfriend"
I for one welcome our giant submarine attacking overlords!
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google"
Obviously the start of something bigger.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
It was just looking for seamen to swallow.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Obviously the start of something bigger. No doubt the work of Zak, the Flesh-eating Zombie Squid!
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I for one welcome our new cephalopod overlords.
arg, bad tags. here is the properly formatted citation:
"A giant pacific octopus attacked a Seaeye Falcon ROV working off Vancouver Island as it was locating and recovering receivers tracking pacific offshore salmon migration.
The incident was caught on the ROV's video by Mike Wood of SubOceanic Sciences Canada. He had just located a data recorder and taken a grip of the cable with the ROV's manipulator arm, when suddenly an 80 lb octopus launched an attack.
With tentacles 'as thick as man's arm' and a bite that he believed can exert 1000 lbs pressure, Mike Wood feared the octopus would bite the camera cable or umbilical and trip out the Falcon ROV.
Not wanting to lose the receiver that he had just located he decided to take on the creature and after tightening his grip of the cable with the manipulator arm, revved the ROV's thrusters in reverse in an attempt to blast seabed particles at the creature. For a moment the octopus appeared to intensify its attack with its mantle flared but eventually the swirling fragments drove it away.
The giant pacific octopus, octopus dofleini, is the largest species of octopods and although it grows to an average weight of 50 to 90 lbs with a span of 16 ft, a monster 600 lbs one has been recorded. They are intelligent creatures who can negotiate mazes and learn to unscrew jars to remove food. No problem disassembling an ROV then."
I LIVE on Vancouver Island, and Slashdot knew about something of this scale before me? MAN do I need to get out more.
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I detect a plot here to ridicule our great prophet!
This thing is going to be huge in Japan.
When I hear "Giant Octopus Attacks Sub" for some reason I imagine something a lot larger than 80lbs. Then I read the story and find out it's not really a GIANT Octopus, and he wasn't attacking a 688 Attack Sub.
So it's not all it's cracked up to be. Huh. Why do I feel like I've done this before?
Phillipine Giant Octopus Attack in December 27 1989 read more http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/goattack.html. And some intresting information about giant octopuses can be found here http://www.gabourgeois.com/giantocto.html
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"I go full reverse and blast him with all these seabed particles," said Wood, describing the attack shown in the video. "Finally, he lets go and disappears off into the gloom.
"It was desperation. It's a $200,000 machine, and it's not insured," said Wood, who runs SubOceanic Sciences Canada in Duncan, B.C.
Even when you get your sub insured they neglect to mention you have to pay extra for underinsured gaint squid and octopus coverage.
an octopus attacked their expensive and sensitive equipment
Ouch, that sounds painful. Anybody ever had an octopus stuck to their sensitive equipment?
OK, so maybe the incident I am remembering was a squid. But a giant cephalopod is a giant cephalopod, right?
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What the fuck is this? Fox? Leave the sensationalist bullshit at Murdoch's doorstep.
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google"
Nice to see the Subway is now sending images of Jared and those mouth watering tasty subs into the deep blue. They now have one new customer. Hopefully the video will answer if our eight legged, ink blotting friend likes mayo or mustard, and whole wheat or plain.
BSG commerical over---back to eating my sub....
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I get it now. If you want a sneak peek of upcoming slashdot articles, just read fark.com.
Interestingly, the article does not mention that the so-called submarine is infact a Remote Operated Vehicle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROV). A ROV, technically, can be termed as a submarine though from TFA it appears that author chooses to call this ROV a "sub" to generate some interest.
And the so-called Giant Octopus weighed about 45 kgs. Hardly Giant.
Anyway.
The footage was lost after the sub got disoriented and fell off the edge of the earth...
Check on this article.. -
.... well lets say the giant Octopus thought he was food - and so he earned a nice tatoo when the squid tried to gnaw on him from the head down.
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i for one welcome our new octopus overlords!
As an american High School student, I'd like to officially apologize for my generation.
Around here (so cal) you don't have to worry too much about uninsured cepholopods. But you do have an 86% chance that your uninsured hit-n-run is an illegal Mexican citizen.
I, for one, welcome our giant octopus overlords.
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I just watched the video and it looks like the Octopus was checking what the heck this thing was doing in his environment. Once he/she approached the ROV, the guy operating it revved the motors and sprayed debris at the unsuspecting Octopus. How do we really know this isn't so some sort of sick and twisted oceanographer that gets his kicks off luring unsuspecting cephalopods into the ROV engine's thrusts? Sure he says that his little submarine was getting attacked but my guess this isn't the first time he has fucked with invertebrate mammals. I think there is more here than meets the eye. Where is ASPCA?
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If I found a Sub way under the ocean I'd try to get something to eat, too...
This reminds me of 20,000 leagues under the sea... a huge squid attacked them.
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This attack was terrible and completely unprovoked, I think we need to strike back at the octopuses with full force to show that we can't be pushed around! This giant octopus attacked a sub, so I say we build a giant sub to attack an octopus!!
Those Octopussies won't know what hit 'em!!
It looks like Jules Vern's fiction is becoming fact. This is one SciFi event that I'm sure no one expected to come true.
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Blood pressure, man! Try to calm down!
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From here on out, all subs will be equipped with miniature Kirk Douglas's armed with spears to fend off these ferocious attacks!
Are you sure his last name wasn't Nemo?
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It's always easier when it's not your expensive toy down there, but it seems the operator was in panic mode. I'd like to think that if it were my ROV, I'd have held off on that little counter-offensive stunt a little longer, until I saw at least some indication of hostility. In the video, the octopus has barely started reaching toward the ROV by the time its starts getting pelted by the gravel. My guess is that the encounter would have ended quite peacefully, without any aggression on either side, and we would have had even more footage of this interesting interaction.
What about the twinkie?!?!? ;-)
Subs? Attack squids? Ah, the good old days of Red Alert 2!
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The video was pretty damn kewl. But nothing major, not like the pics of the giant octopus attacking ships in the old days , i wonder if it every really happened, or if they just thought it was possible?
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It *might* have been sarcastic. Watch out for dolphins, after all those dolphins killed in fishing nets, one can't expect them to remain helpful and friendly for long.
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that the flying spaghetti monster could swim. Apparently his noodly appendage doesn't like we filth his sea's with sub's.
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Having done more than a bit of diving, I can tell you that many octopii are very curious creatures. They seem to come in two rather distinct varieties - the very shy ones that flee and the very curious that are quite willing to investigate your mask, tanks, etc. Many octopii are also very senstive to light and color. They seem to use color to communicate with each other. Depending on the type of octopii, many are quite sensitive to light, some being attracted to and some being repelled by it.
I'm also betting that these folks had all their little lights blazing, all their little tools humming, and lord only know what else. I'm sure that they attracted the thing. Most people don't realize that octopii have problem-solving intelligence. (It's the one thing that makes me feel guilty about eating them. I guess if they were smarter they'd find a way not to taste so good) Anyway, because they're smart, they also investigate odd things. As fragile as they look, they are suprisingly strong. I've had an octopus not much bigger than my hand nearly pull my regulator out of my mouth. I can only imagine what 100lb octopus is capable of. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised they have sub left. I would suggest investigating to see if they can find out what they did to initiate the incident and "don't do that anymore."
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they made it sound like that octopus was taking out a naval vessel.
.... "Chuck Norris Roundhouse kick frees submarine from Giant Octopus."
(not sure who is usually responsible for the Chuck Norris jokes, but I didn't see one yet so I had to step up and add it!).
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Where's Kirk Douglas when you need him?!
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Frankly, I'm surprised it's taken this long. In the last year we've seen the discovery of a super giant squid, the first videos of a giant squid in the wild, and now this!
Look.
Do you know how fucking big a sperm whale is? It's huge. HUGE. And giant squid eat them. Listen to your heart - no matter what the scientists tell you, 4th grade ecology has convinced us all that whales are intelligent loving animals. Did you see Star Trek 4. They're the freakin' saviours of humanity man.
And giant squid eat them
Eat them
Not beacause it's easy. Oh no, not because a sperm whale is an easy catch. Big, remember? No. It's because squid are evil incarnate
Do you know how long they've been down there? No one does. But my guess is the squid and it's precurser have been down there in the depths for a lot longer than man has been knucklewalking. That's old. And you know they think down there. Brood down there. Their tentacles floating like the limbs of children relaxing in the water, they brood and wonder how to conquer us from below.
Things that think and brood also dream. And things that dream begin to worship the stuff of dreams. Out of man's insecurity we have sublimated a great father figure into the sky, according to Freud. What about the tentacled things in the watery darkness, whose females are larger than their males?
I'll tell you what they worship
A great multilimbed mother of the dark watery brood. Deep down in the very molten cracks of the earth filling the sea with inky blackness. THAT's what they worship. We killed men in the crusades. Men who looked the same as other men. What will the dark octupi and squid do to US who are mere flabby bloodsacks to rip apart and drink out fluids with their beaky maws? What in the name of their Dark Mother goddess will they do to us when they rise into our airy realm?
Think about it dudes
Us computer geeks are basically fucked
whats so giant
about this pecimen
the french would obviously eat them for breakfast
hell i would eat a +40 kg squid, did u ever ate greek calamares; those would be
awesome with these big squids
Don't worry, the dolphins are smarter then us... they will just leave the planet!
" revved the ROV's thrusters in reverse in an attempt to blast seabed particles at the creature."
Sounds like a well thought out revisionist history of "HOLY SHIT REVERSE MAN REVERSE!!!eleven!"
To me at least after viewing the video, he did what anyone would in a FPS. Run backward dropping 'nades to escape short range melee weapons in the hopes that his ass would survive long enough to get a new strategy. Good thing they had a rocky seabed or we would've seen the death of an ROV.
Too bad they didn't build this thing with a strafe-jump and gibber, he could've misdirected then lead the octopus into a lunge in which he pushed the gibber against its head by using it's off-balance timing and commitment to the lunge.
New headline: ROV driven by newb almost gets pwned by octopus.
Seriously though, if ocotpi are going to be terrorizing ROVs without warning, I think we need to take a first strike approach. They may have WMDs.
welcome our new cthulu overlords
...welcome our new giant octopus overlords.
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Yes, it is as cool as I think, and even more so! Blasphemy!
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We have stories and accounts of giant squid/etc attacking ships for centuries, guys! :)
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"It may have been curious, looking for a meal or a girlfriend..."
"Certainly male", lives underground in parent's basement or underwater in mud, prefers screwing with expensive gadgets instead of real girls, scares off people when seen in public, and sooner or later ends up working at MacDonalds or seefood business... Clearly just one of our marine slashdotters. Perhaps this means we can soon enjoy articles about hacking submarines to run linux?
But remember shall you:
"Such large, powerful animals deserve respect, Cosgrove said."
It acted like it didn't know what it was doing, weaving around. It wasn't wearing a helmet, jacket, gloves or boots. Sounds like a squid to me!
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obviously this Octopus is mad at Canada because of "radical right wing nuts" * got elected . nature is try to warn us people! All hail quickening earth changes! * according to al gore
It decided to come to shore.
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Hi... I recently read one of Victor Hugo's lesser known works, Toilers Of The Sea. I enjoyed it and recommend it for any fan of Hugo. It kind of reminded me of Jude The Obscure meets Swiss Family Robinson.
Anyway, this story reminds me of this book because of a fierce battle this guy has with a giant (or at least really big) octopus. The main strategic point to keep in mind; don't fight the arms, go for the head.
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My question is... who won?
The octopus or the sub? It wasn't entirely clear on the video, although it did look like the octopus was repelled.
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> Obviously the start of something bigger.
Octopus eats shark (video)
Can they attached lasers to its head? Thats the real question!
Off defending something cuter.
According to several American dictionaries, the plural of octopus can be octopuses or octopi (not octopii.) However, I was taught long ago that octopi is actually wrong, and octopuses is correct.
Well, I looked it up on AskOxford and it turns out that octopi is wrong and octopuses is customary, but neither are correct. The most correct plural is octopodes, but I've never heard anyone use it.
I used to dive (haven't in awhile) and I have yet to meet an octopus, but I have heard great stories about how curious they are of divers.
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You can find the video at Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-700490962 2962894202&q=octopus+shark
The octopus in that video is deomstrating the same instinct as the octopus that attacked the sub.
I'm gonna remember to atatch an extra high-voltage circuit to the hull, just in case. ;)
This is what happens when you let the terrorists take courses in Marine Biology!
Here's a mirror site hosting this one and a few other octopi videos.
Link (pops)
I for one think there are bigger things down there, after 5 years in the Navy and I was at sea for 3 of those years I tend to think there are some huge things at the bottom of the sea that would scare the hell out of all of us. I could explain more but it's late and I am saving it for my book.
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So the legends of giant sea monsters are true! Whoa, next thing you know, Godzilla will pop put of the ocean and kill Tokyo. I'll be sure to get footage of that.
Wow, I haven't seen that many tentacles since the Interview with Julien Vanhoenacker!
enough said.
What squid?
I work for the Vancouver Island newspaper (TC) and we ran this in yesterdays newspaper, so yes slashdot may reach further but the locals saw this a good 48hrs prior.
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we all know what is going to happen ...
They should attack it with a boomerang, or a bow and arrow...
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If this is true, then maybe Mothra, Rodan and Varan might be out there on some yet-to-be discover island.
Now now, it's not fair to randomly call people nazis.
... gotta convince some of the TC people to quit and move on first *HINT HINT* lol :))
Unless you mean Robbins Parking, in which case, yeah.
(I only started in 2004, so I haven't been able to get a company spot yet
Above link is pretty fascinating..
n/t
Cthulhu loves you.
http://www.cbc.ca/vancouver/story/bc_octopus-sub20 060127.html?ref=rss - direct from the CBC - no msn filtering, and it includes the CBC video.
I totally agree with you. I too live on vancouver island and am hoping to mount a giant octopus to the hood of my car to attack Robbins ticket writers. The worst are the meter maids with the segways, every I see mine pass by I have to physically restrain myself from clothes-lining him. :)
Why not octopus?
Especially not with those military dart gun dolphins on the loose, educating them.
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"The world was not created for man by God, oh no!
For some years, some biologists have argued that there was a 7th day of creation, during which God thought about his prototypes and finally made the crowning glory of his creation here on Earth: the giant squid.
The basic problem with the idea that we humans are the peak of his creation was pointed out by none other than Charles Darwin. The problem is explaining the evolution of the vertebrate eye. He gave this as a very serious problem, because this organ doesn't fossilize at all, and it is difficult to explain how all the intermediate forms could have been sufficiently functional for Natural Selection to have selected them.
In recent years, Creationists have vociferously challenged the entire evolutionary paradigm, and some biologists have given serious thought to their criticisms, as well as Darwin's issue of the eye. Some have suggested the thought experiment: Suppose that the Creationists are right, and the world was built by some sort of Cosmic Engineer (which we may call "God" for short). What can we learn by studying the artefacts of the creation process?
One thing that we learn when we study the vertebrate eye is that it has a rather strange structure. The blood vessels and the nerves pass through the surface in a bundle (the "blind spot"), and spread out on the inside of the retina. This is a very bizarre way to lay out the "wiring". Why would any sensible engineer do it this way, rather than the much more sensible way of running the wiring along the back surface?
We might hypothesize that there is some obscure benefit to doing it this way, and we just aren't clever enough to figure it out. But this is shot down by a simple fact. The "camera" type of eye seems to have evolved (or been created, if you prefer) more than once. The cephalopods (a family of animals that include octopi, squid, and nautilus) have eyes that are superficially similar, but on close examination, we find that all the details are different. In particular, they have the "wiring" on the back of the retina, as you'd expect.
So, if there is a Creator, He seems to have done the job twice, once poorly (with vertebrates), and once well (with the cephalopods). This is very suspicious. It is especially suspicious when you consider that, while we humans claim that the planet was built for us, it is roughly 3/4 salt water. If you measure the areas that we humans actually inhabit in any significant numbers, we are talking about maybe 5% of the globe, whereas the giant squid is at the top of the food chain over roughly 70%. When you consider the actual volume of the inhabited space, the giant squid has a home range many thousands of times greater than ours.
So the evidence appears to be that humans were one of the experiments, good enough to let live but not good enough to be given a large range (or to rework things like the eyes so that they worked better).
If this isn't convincing enough, consider also that humans have quite a good record of wiping out all the large predators, on both land and at sea. We have devastated the cetacea and are busy wiping out the large sharks, tunas, and other major marine predators. There is one exception: Humans show little interest in interacting with the giant squid. Sure, we catch the little ones and eat them, but as for the biggest species, we almost totally ignore it, although it is a major predator in all the oceans. And if you are like most humans, you are probably thinking that this is silly. Who cares about a bunch of big squid?
This is very, very suspicious. We have a glaring blind spot here. Most large predators drive us crazy. We are terrified of wolves, bears, and sharks. Although very few humans have ever been injured b
an "attack"... "Tt's coming right for us!"
All i can see in this video is an octopus coming near, and a submarine taking refuge in panic...
I guess the octopus - by the way a pretty smart animal - just wanted to say "hello... could you please PISS OFF?" in his way, because he felt disturbed...
Animals are not like humans. They always have *reasons* why they do such stuff. And i even guess that an octopus knows that this submarine is nothing you can/should eat. So what are the reasons left for doing this?
Rrrrright!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
..It's been working for Sony Playstation for years; with both PSX and PS2 using their crappy idea of graphics, thereby cooking up the ol' pixelfest for those that not know better..
> The most correct plural is octopodes, but I've never heard anyone use it.
Yes. The -us isn't the familiar Latin ending. It's the Latinized form of Greek okto-pous "eightfoot".
The root of pous is ped- or pod-, familiar in such terms as orthopedics, "foot straightening"; tetrapod, "fourfoot"; Oedipus (Greek Oidipous), "Clubfoot".
The seemingly strange pous from pod- is an example of the common linguistic phenomenon called compensatory lengthening, the result of the nominative singular derivation pod- + -s. The Greek nominitive plural would be pod- + -es, hence "octopodes".
I now return you to our slightly less anal retentive context...
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...sightings of glowing red orbs that crashed into the deep ocean? That sea level rise might not be global warming after all....
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
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Not many killed.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
But just think, it'll attack Tokyo and they'll fight back with some kind of nuclear weapon and seemingly defeat it but and then some mad scientist guy who is always partially in shadow and has vibrating eyes will rebuild it using spare cyborg parts from his plan-b of "destroy tokyo for no adequately explored reason" and before you know it you'll have a 200ft high radioactive "OCTOMECHA" and yet more buildings in downtown Tokyo will be destroyed and it will all end up resulting in some kind of epic duel to the death with godzilla.
Interesting point and all, but seriously dude... that is quite some hypothetical.
OCTOPUS: GurgleRarrr! *attacks*
ME: *oof* Ex-CUSE me, but I SPECIFICALLY requested the shark.
OCTOPUS: *slinks away, professionally embarrassed*
From TFA: "No one knows what caused the octopus to attack. It may have been curious, looking for a meal or a girlfriend, said Jim Cosgrove of the Royal B.C. Museum."
I didn't know that Slashdot had Octopodal readers
An awesome, truly awesome post!
Help end the use of Sigs. Tomorrow
Looking at the video, doesnt look much like an attack... Lots of arms flailing around.. rocks ...
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Maybe Hollywood can make a movie about it and it can be based on true events.
Can I bum a sig?
I concur. It was more like: "I thought the rather small giant-octopus might attack us."
Maybe that asshole of an octopus was threatened by a bigger fish?
"Man, we left those retarded dolphins back on Earth ages ago!"
Holy Mother of God!
These sneaky slimy gooey crudge mudgons are slowly warming up the earth, and oh, HELL NO! melting the polar ice caps. We are lost. They will flood the world and seek us out! Hey I have a very good computer system that I'll trade for some rope and those spiky climbing shoes; you know the ones I mean......... don't you please?
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It may have been curious, looking for a meal or a girlfriend, said Jim Cosgrove of the Royal B.C. Museum.
Funny, my girlfriend attacks my expensive and sensitive equipment when I'm on too long.
And like that sub, it's not insured either!
Are we seeing an interspecies relationship here?
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Responding to recent unprovoked attacks, US President George W. Bush has formally declared war on the country of Octopussia...
This wasn't very impressive visually (or otherwise). I suppose if there was some actual sound from the tech trying to liberate the ROV it would be nice - even if it was just cursing. As they say, "I suppose ya had to be there..." This non-plussed marine biologist rates it a "thumbs down". :-P
I think the video is available from amazon
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no wait, that was a squid...
Don't let FOX catch wind of this, they'll spit out a new "reality" show entitiled "When Octopi Attack!"
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Forget the cats, "Curiosity kills kit."
Ever leave a five year old with aspirations of a future in engineering alone with electronic gear? The results, while not malicious and bourne only out of curiosity, are usually disastrous.
It's a classic case of "What's this button do?" and "Does this part come off? Neat!"
I mean, it *is* supposed to be humour, right?
OCTOPUS: Oh! A girl! *attacks*
ME: *oof* Ex-CUSE me, but I SPECIFICALLY requested the shark.
OCTOPUS: *slinks away, sexually embarrassed*
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Right, but I'm guessing said electronic gear was never designed to be immersed in a hostile environment. If you design a toy, on the other hand, you'd better expect it to be handled as such. Consider the Lego Mindstorms controller-in-a-brick, which is well-hardened against most such destruction by curious kids.
Now, if you build an ROV--one which, by the way, was intended to study sea life--you can be damn sure you're going to encounter at least a few curious critters down there. If you haven't considered that entirely predictable scenario in the design phases, you can't really complain too much when it gets torn apart in the operational environment.
The start of something bigger? What the hell are you talking about? My dog shit on the rug the other day, I think its the start of something, something big...some world-wide uprising of house broken dogs revolting against their owners! Much like how these octpuses aren't going to take it anymore! The end of the world is near...yup, I can see it starting. OMG!!!!!!!
~Hergio
Charlie the Octopus was never the same after they closed down the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride at Disney World....
I don't know if it helps, but they've shown that footage to death on Chek-6 TV, though they only showed clips of the attack, not the entire thing.
Talking about he Seattle Aquarium and octopuses... Hasn't anyone seen how an octopus from this aquarium exterminated some sharks?
I do believe it was humpback whales that saved humanity, not sperm whales.
A guilty conscience means at least you've got one.
"...when an octopus attacked their ... sensitive equipment..."
...and remember:
was there video?
Don't tease the octopus, kids!
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
The classic Jack Chick tract Who Will Be Eaten First.
Wasnt that more like 'shook hands' with the sub?
It was like a bouncer holds a kid by the cuff and the kid starts fighting back with all he has.
PETA should intervene. The Poor Octopi.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
Was that really all that giant?
..tell me that Octopi can be much bigger. I thought it was a manned sub that was attacked till I saw the sub in a picture. This is just a fishing story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusca
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
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Now I'm going to have nightmares.
If you can read this sig, you're too close.
"first documented attack" is *not* true.
And since when is any type of wild animal not supposed to attack? So a diver interacts with octopi a lot and loves them. Should you really be surprised when one day you don't surface because a P.O'd Octopus decided to hug you too long? They're damn strong creatures, and you cannot say they will only behave in manner X, Y, or Z. I've seen a small bird "attack" a person. WTF?!? you say? I say, why not? You're not going to convince the bird any different if it wants to attach you. Same with the octopus that can number your days if it wants.
So, they find a squid larger than the "giant" squid, and decide to call it a "colossal" squid.
What will they do 10 years down the line, when they find an even larger squid?
Apparently you were not-so-giant octopus in your prior life.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
the sub attacks the octupus....
RUPERT! I TOLD YOU TO WATCH THE BAGS! You were looking at the boys again, WEREN'T YOU.
This was first documented by Jules Verne in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea.
But you will never see the video because Disney owns the rights to it becuase of their movie: 20,000 leagues under the sea.
It's octopodes...
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A giant pacific octopus attacked
Perhaps a name change is in order? I propose "giant badass octopus".
I don't have to able to swim faster than the octopus.
I just have to be able to swim faster than YOU!
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- aqk
F U
...to deliver a message of peace and understanding. And he is set upon and attacked. {sigh}Will we ever learn?{/sigh}
Busy aligning my non-linear thoughts.