Magnapinna Squid Filmed at Drilling Site
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2010
- A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, this alien-like, long-armed, and--strangest of all--"elbowed" Magnapinna squid is seen in a still from a video clip recently obtained by National Geographic News.
In a brief video from the dive recently obtained by National Geographic News, one of the rarely seen squid loiters above the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico on November 11, 2007.
The clip-from a Shell oil company ROV (remotely operated vehicle)-arrived after a long, circuitous trip through oil-industry in-boxes and other email accounts.
"Perdido ROV Visitor, What Is It?" the email's subject line read-Perdido being the name of a Shell-owned drilling site. Located about 200 miles (320 kilometers) off Houston, Texas (Gulf of Mexico map), Perdido is one of the world's deepest oil and gas developments.
The video clip shows the screen of the ROV's guidance monitor framed with pulsing inputs of time and positioning data.
In a few seconds of jerky camerawork, the squid appears with its huge fins waving like elephant ears and its remarkable arms and tentacles trailing from elbow-like appendages.
Despite the squid's apparent unflappability on camera, Magnapinna, or "big fin," squid remain largely a mystery to science.
ROVs have filmed Magnapinna squid a dozen or so times in the Gulf and the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.
The recent video marks the first sighting of a Magnapinna at an oil development, though experts don't think the squid's presence there has any special scientific significance.
But the video is evidence of how, as oil- and gas-industry ROVs dive deeper and stay down longer, they are yielding valuable footage of deep-sea animals.
Some marine biologists have even formed formal partnerships with oil companies, allowing scientists to share camera time on the corporate ROVs-though critics worry about possible conflicts of interest.
Based on analysis of videos not unlike the one captured at the Perdido site, scientists know that the adult Magnapinna observed to date range from 5 to 23 feet (1.5 to 7 meters) long, Vecchione said. By contrast, the largest known giant squid measured about 16 meters (52 feet) long.
And whereas giant squid and other cephalopods have eight short arms and two long tentacles, Magnapinna has ten indistinguishable appendages that all appear to be the same length.
"The most peculiar structure is that of the arms," said deep-sea biologist Bruce Robison of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California.
Referring to the way the tentacles hang down from elbow-like kinks, Robison said: "Judging from that structure, we think the animal feeds by dragging its arms and the ends of its tentacles along the seafloor as it drifts slowly above it."
The elbow-like angles allow the tentacles to spread out, perhaps preventing them from getting tangled.
"Imagine spreading the fingers of a hand and dragging the fingertips along the top of a table to grab bits of food," he added. - Наука та технологія
You do you, magnapinna. You stay way down there, I'll stay up here, and we'll get along just fine.
lol
Mr Tuxedo no magnapinna come up here and we will get along just fine and I totally won’t throw you at me tuxedo or my friends.
😂😂😂💯
skyrim vibes tho
Lol I agree
Fun fact: we don't know if we've observed the adults yet
Jesus
The fuq u tyna do to my heart rn
Wow
Considering there such things as the giant and collosal squid I wouldn't be surprised if what was shown in the footage was a baby
your saying…THERE IS BIGGER!?!?!?
Screw looking for aliens in space, the ocean has the real aliens.
@@Liminal-Lagomorph ok since you're an alien go to space or the ocean
Anhedonic Lake that’s a really ignorant thing to say.
Yup alot.of.aliens are in the deep seas bases and stuff.
@@Liminal-Lagomorph We are able to survive the elements. It's just other species adapted better...
The scary part his that it actually exist in the ocean animals like that exist. Now imagine space what living animal creatures are out there. Bc there is 1 bug I forgot the name that can live every where space cold no oxygen and still wont die. I believe scary creatures live in apace
I like how the camera moves. It almost seems panicked as it observes this magnificent creature. Like, I know that's just how it's made, but it does add a bit of tension to the scene.
Professor JAJL it just looks like if I get close to it, it will kill me in a second
I know its all magnificient and all that, but if I saw this while swimming I would legit shit my pants
@@601jone it would laugh at you for your weak attempt at hiding in your "ink"
@@abeedhal6519 that thing couldn't hide for shit either with those long ass tentacles lol
@@IIIVI it doesn't need to hide tho lmao
Imagine the squids thoughts: wtf is this creepy bulky solid thing that makes these alien humming sounds??? I live here my whole life and all of a sudden that creepy thing shows up in my living room.
it's also crazy to think that is probably any animals down there have ever seen light
Actually that's probably a juvenile, so it's a little baby getting woken up by it
@@purplebooty5683 stop that, you think I want to imagine that?1
@@liamwelch3167 its possible the squid is still in its larval stage as wikipedia describes an entry about the larval stage of these squids
@@liamwelch3167 they grow about ten times bigger, we are all gonna die
Poor camera operator he must have had a mini heart attack
He probably quit and moved to Colorado or somewhere far away from the ocean
bro if i was that camera operator i would’ve shit bricks and probably had a goddamn heart attack
@Logan M
Screw him. He couldn't keep the camera straight.
I feel more bad for the juvenile squid that probably just got woken up by the weird looking glowy thingy that makes strange humming noises that appeared right in front of it.
(P.S. I'm referring to the camera that filmed the squid)
@@ARedMotorcycle I bet you couldn't hold a camera at all.... You know being a motorcycle in all
People: “Why are you so scared of the ocean?”
The damn ocean:
Fax
You would be dead before you even saw that
Thats the deep sea tho
@@ZackShark1 still the ocean tho..
@@phoenixdaintyeyes5256 even if you got to see one of them things you'd be in a fucking submarine or some shit
When this video released it was called 'unknown squid' or 'new species' and now we call it the Magnapinna. Incredible to live through seeing what is basically the definition of a cryptid.
How is a cryptid!?
@slate4687 cryptid's just a word used for unknown unexplained creatures
Hmm
magnapina is the name of a squid species that looks exactly the same yet is smaller and lives at the surface, people call it that because it is extremely likely that it is a species of magnapina
source?@@poopypoop1477
aww it is so cute how it is trying to mimic an oil station...
@CryptoCracker IT IS THE OIL STATION
Thats makes it a million times more adorable
@@SoaCrow This sounds like the setup for an SCP article ngl
@@Name-nw9uj would be interessting actually
Uh... no
Imagine how trippy it must be to be him , dangling in the depths of the ocean
pure blackness everywhere
Ohh lord
The Mollusc album by Ween is a great trippy imagination of what it's like to be a mollusc in the ocean, and cephalopods like squids and octopi are molluscs.
Now Imagine for the bigfin's point of view: your just living your life, walking along, when all the sudden a blinding light shows up, and you think you are about to die as you hear the mechanical wirring of the camera. I'd be scared too.
@@MineBlox60000 The squid's not even really reacting to the camera, it's just vibing and oblivious to humanity and its machinations.
I am here from Joe Rogan
Me too. JRE never shows you much at what they're looking at. Had to see this one for myself lol
Same
Facts
How big is this thing!
DOOM GROOM apparently around 23ft from another video I watch
That right there might be the closest we get to seeing an alien.
What's interesting is that these species have probably been around for hundreds of millions of years, far pre-dating humans. These are less alien than we are.
Im sitting here wondering how intelligent they are. And what the fuck kind of squid has "knuckles"? You see how his tentacles(arms?) Were like, tented out? and how long were his tentacles? I really wanna know more about this thing.
Justin Case it’s just how its arms are positioned and I’m pretty sure they are not that intelligent considering how deep they live in the ocean.
It is an alien
@@kid.dynamite4918 it actually a big fin squid and this is the part that is scary is we dont know nothing about we dont know how it mate how it lives and
All the big fin squids have been captured aren't adults
Operator crew: why do i hear boss music?
Dekoy One HAHAHAA dude this comment got me hahaha
It's that squid's mom
idk why everyone be freaking out over the squid, he just vibin
Yea dude
yeah bro. ocean animals are kinda scary, but they're pretty cool. he's just danglin, livin his best life.
BRO ITS HUGE
@@thatch9913 that's what she said
He's a 150' flopper T-posing off an oil rig that right there is either a red flag or my best friend
its not to hard to believe considering 70% of the ocean hasnt been explored
Solaric Oreo 98% be be exact XD it's amazing how small our view has been so far
DarkAlphaWerewolf Damn
true
95% actually
SleepyLewis yeah
“I’ve come to be a guest on JRE and make my squid brothers proud” - oil rig magnapinna squid
the oceans are just so vast. I'm sure there are more of these out there
Among other unknown creatures…
this looks like it belongs to subnautica
most deep-sea creatures look like they belong in subnautica
Reminds me of a sea treader
FiNiTe nah its a warper w/o arms
I feel like it would grab your seamoth and shock it disabling your seamoth, then proceeds to destroy it slowly till you get out to kill it
Retmispar yeah in the dead zone
am i the only one who finds this really cool? it might be my new favourite animal, the oceans honestly terrifying and i never wanna go there but it's so fascinating to know that there's so many undiscovered creatures like this that we barely know about. anything could be real
Cool but terrifying and alieny
Based Lenin
you are speaking my mind
Yeah you’re so unique no one else finds this cool. I hate the way idiots talk.
@@SlotKing69 chill dawg who hurt u
Looks like Independence Day alien
Like yo momma.
@@ARedMotorcycle that joke is dead
@@Watykaniak the joke is still dead it died like 4 years ago when that one channel ruined it
@@Watykaniak uno reverse
@@Watykaniak _true_
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”
Momma squid: aww that's nice swettie
Now finish your lunch.
It's official, I'm never sleeping again
This thing definitely does dmt on the reg.
Lmao
Cha brah
Lol. Must harvest it's pineal gland.
There is a perfect explanation for this, war of the worlds
Joe Rogan video uploaded: 12 hours ago
Giant Squid video uploaded: 9 years ago
Camera man: oh hey a nice little squid
Camera man: *points camera down* nope nope nope nope nope
even the squid think shell's prices are ridiculous
It’s just standing there , MENACINGLY
the camerawork -- the nightvision and the jerky too-fast movements of the camera -- are horror movie perfection. The reveal of how long those lines are, and then it keeps revealing, and keeps revealing, and oh god the camera's moving FAST, that must mean that these are even LONGER, launches this thing into monster history. I refuse to call them tentacles, how the hell would they move to feed the thing if something got caught at the edge of its reach? Would I even want to know? the answer tends to flip depending on my mood.
It might get digested at the bottom and only the nutrients are pumped/osmosis'd up to the rest of the body. Or it lets itself drop to eat and slowly wiggles/float back up again.
it's literally straight from Gemini entertainment
His reminds me of war of the worlds with the big black tripods, not the original ones
It's more fun if you imagine the camera isn't panning, and the squid is just darting around real fast
it makes it seem less terrifying to me 💀💀
I know that this could easily exist, considering how much of ocean hasn’t been explored yet, but this is straight up terrifying. He’s just vibin’ and all, but I can’t imagine myself in the same water as that.
That’s why I prefer to stay on land.
This thing is interesting af. I hope scientists can find out more about it.
They’ve only seen this kind like a couple times it’s terrifying they haven’t found out much about it at all
Magnapinna Squid: "I see you have brought your whole army"
Army: _we retreat_
It looks like the aliens from Independence Day.
Imagine being the dude just checkin the cameras and they see that just float by
I’m sending this to everyone before we go on our family cruise!
The movement of the camera made me imagine this:
That one dude who as always watches the cameras with nothing happening than suddenly an alien appears in front of the camera
His co-workers walk in to talk to him and he is saying nothing, staring open mouthed at the monitor, scrolling the mouse with white knuckles.
The fact that it was looking at the camera makes it even more terrifying
" what are you looking at? "
These kind of videos always intrigues me so much
If someone makes a vr game that lets you dive down to the depths of the ocean and let you experience the vastness and horrors down there, that would be amazing
There already are those sorts of games. Check out subnautica.
Subnautica vr
@@egsir95 I ill once I get a chance
Modern young dude: Shown amazing oceanic biology
"D'make a cool video game, maaan"
@@MikeBarbarossathere’s nothing wrong with that lmao
thanks for the supplementary info in the description, i appreciate it.
i would have passed out if i see this and if the tentacles get wrapped on me my soul would have left my body if i see this
The commenting did stop at 2010 until people continued it with, "Who's here from Jack?"
whe keep videos alive
NoMeRcY gaming
With spams of the same commnets..
+Ellt form can't tell are you hating or fam of jack?
you have him as your profile pic
Whos here from Joe Rogan?
Venom .... I see you are a man of culture, as well
That's what makes me scared of the underwater life
It should be scared of us. We destroy species. In sure this thing just eats and breeds.
@@KILLERKROW23 it’s like 150 feet long tho... each one of those tentacles could wrap around you like 100 times and squeeze you until you explode
@@yeat994
I thought it only used its tentacles/arms to catch dead prey or stuff that's just floating around down there
@@jasondeng7677 I’m gonna be honest I don’t know a whole lot about this species of squid and neither does like anyone else because of how rare they are so I really can’t say
@@yeat994
it isn't confirmed but it likely is
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/giant-squid-species-magnapinna-animals
"The most peculiar structure is that of the arms," said deep-sea biologist Bruce Robison of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California.
Referring to the way the tentacles hang down from elbow-like kinks, Robison said: "Judging from that structure, we think the animal feeds by dragging its arms and the ends of its tentacles along the seafloor as it drifts slowly above it."
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But NOAA's Vecchione suggests a feeding behavior that is more like trapping than hunting. He speculates that Magnapinna passively waits for prey to bump into the sticky appendages.
“Warning detecting multiple leviathan class life forms in the region are you certain whatever your doing is worth it?”
At first it seems like a normal if weird squid. And then you see how ungodly fucking long it’s tentacles on and it promptly becomes terrifying.
It's okay to feel fear at first. That's just your mind admitting that it does not understand. What is not okay is to remain afraid, and to refuse to understand.
I was little when this happened. I remember hearing about it the next day because my mother was one of the folks running that Shell project. Those things are weirdddd
while yall looking into space while the alien is just chilling in the ocean
I've always wondered what so scary about cthulhu.. Until I've watched this video, damn squid can be scary..
00:12 Yeah, I'mma need to see that again, let me do a double take.
...Yeah, that's still terrifying.
bro imagine the first guys reaction to seeing this thing
He probably quit his jobs
Does anyone know anything about this species? Look at how its tentacles are, sticking staight out before going down, like knuckles or elbow.. Weird.. Cool. Absolutely most alien thing ive ever seen with my eyes.
Before this sighting scientist thought they were only 30 feet long at most but this one was like 150 or something insane like that
No one knows anything about them. Well, very very little.
Scientists don't know much. Don't think one has been washed ashore to study there's only been brief encounters in deep oceans. They are called magnapinna squid or (bigfin squid) wiki still says their tentacles can grow to about 26 feet long and the deepest they've been found is 4000 feet though this video disproves both those statements. This video is taken at a depth of like 7000 feet and that squid is over 100 foot long. They say it's closer to 150 feet. They don't know how they feed but the tentacles have suction cups on them so they guess that little fish and things get caught in the suction of the hanging tentacles and they feed that way. All other videos you'll see the squids are a lot smaller but maybe this is an elder or maybe they don't stop growing nobody really knows. People do know the reason everything is bigger the closer to the bottom you get is because large animals can process their food or nutrients better. They exert less energy etc.
“Mom i pissed the bed” vibes
Looks like the aliens from Independence Day.
*90 DEGREE ANGLES*
Thats so damn cool, just imagine what else could be down in the deep sea.
When you put your sensitivity to MAX
Whose hear after hearing about this on the Joe Rogan podcast?
Sam S. How did you find out what it was called? Joe or the comment section?
Mine.
THAT WAS TERRIFYING
That thing looks so cool. I hope I'm the guy that finds out how big they actually get or that I find something equally cool
That's like building a train track over some ones house.
They look like the tripods from War of the Worlds.
Imagine being the guy on the camera shift
What I cant get over is how the appendages spread out like a mantis. And then the camera zooms out and shows they are like 30 meters long.
Me: Can i have aliens?
Mom: We have aliens at home
Aliens at home:
The guy who saw this on camera said it was controlling his mind. He’s went crazy & has retired.
That’s impossible. But I do think this creature could be real.
@@thrxwolf7039 it’s clearly real they’ve seen this species multiple times and even tho it isn’t a lot of times it’s enough for me to believe it’s real
i think what freaks me out most about this is its not walking on the ocean floor
It would be worse if it was walking
It’s just a squid with incredibly long arms and elbows.
What a great find! How cool for the person controlling the camera.
scariest thing here is the massive oil rig, hope that magnapinna was ok and unharmed
i mean it’s shell… don’t expect much care about the environment. Poor creatures must hate us honestly
Wow! Squids look so majestic in their own environment! Those body flaps and tentacles are like whoa! 🦑❤️ 🌊
He's just chillin
This is probably the calmest comment I have ever seen and then you got the rest of the comments that are legit freaking out about this squid
Black Rob should write a song about giant deep sea squids.
This is one of my favorite type of squid but this is just creepy considering the fact that this is so deep underwater in the dark
It looks kinda spoopy but in a good way
Imagine if these things lived in shallow water. People would think they're adorable and catch them as pets
no they wouldn’t😭
Alien Queen already invaded deep sea someday when time is right she will come up to land with all her brood , we'll doomed...
Years later this is still the scariest video I’ve ever watched
I love the cameras movements, they seem so confused
I was waiting for Will Smith to pop up and punch it in the face and say "Welcome to Earth"
It looks like one of those puppets that’s attached to a bunch of strings XD
just imagine looking out your window in the middle of the night to see that thing
Ugh... kids... always snooping
it looks both creepy and graceful, the fins looks so much like a crown.
9 years ago wtf.... and the video is even three years old after if was posted.... makes me wonder what truly has been found and hiding from the public
This creature was discovered in the fifties, never kept secret, people just didn't know about it because they don't care until it trends on YT. Do you think it's weird that they didn't upload it here right away? At the time of filming YT had only existed for 2 years, it wasn't something everyone used. So I don't see why that would be weird. This was filmed by Shell, a private corporation, if they at any point where hiding the video it would have just been so the environmentalists wouldn't complain about them drilling near the habitat of a rare and likely (based on what we know about other cephalopods) highly intelligent species. That's not exactly new, these guys get fined for destroying stuff and lying about it all the time.
Ngl he kinda vibin’
I know I’m late, but something that helps me with these slight creeps is imagining it getting a bit tangled in it’s tentacles.
It's amazing how much this squid looks like the aliens from War of the World who came first.
The sea levels are rising. These squids are gonna be our neighbors.
Space: we have aliens
Ocean: hold my 🍻....
more like hold my sea water
He‘s just standing there, menacingly
Squidward: "Oh, the fracking?"
Bra why is it just sitting there looking like that
I mean what did you expect it to do? Start swimming around. This creature has 30 feet tentacles wich makes it incredibly hard to move around so it mostly just chills
That is a Magnapinna Squid found all over the world but only near the sea floor because it uses those long tentacles to attract and collect shrimp etc. off of the floor.
Gosh, I didn't know that! That's so interesting!
3 years later. No one knows it's feeding habits so yeah, you were full of it.
Funny how you say that with complete certainty and we don't actually know how it feeds lol
@@mooseman6273 still dont know and we don't even know where Malaysia airlines is
I love how the camera quality of this adds more to the creepiness of this creature.
I think the mixed quality of the camera mixed with the actual specimen itself is what makes it unsettling…
When I was younger I always used to refer to this creature as a Marionette Squid, for obvious reasons. I’m obsessed with it. Such an elusive beast, we’ve only caught it on camera a handful of times, and I don’t think any live specimens have ever been captured. I wonder just how big they can get.
So interesting! I’m so curious as to how intelligent it is
From what I've heard, massive, some can get over 100ft
@@ThatOneFlyYouCantKill around 8 meters
@@ThatOneFlyYouCantKill So 24 feet
What's better: Marionette Squid or Big Fin Squid?
how exciting for the camera operator for this thing to appear. sort of reminds me of watching the BP oil rig disaster where a mile deep oil was blasting into the ocean. all of a sudden, out of nowhere, an eel came swimming by to check it out. funniest thing
I was that guy i would have inmedietly died from cardiac arrest
that wouldn't be exciting, if i saw that id be shitting bricks 💀
That is genuinely fucking terrifying. Made my skin crawl.
That thing looks like a discovery from hell...