10-foot squid captured on film in natural habitat

[NewsCaster]

NHK/NEP/Discovery Channel via Reuters A giant squid is seen in video still captured from a submersible by a Japanese-led team of scientists near the Ogasawara Islands in July 2012. By Arata Yamamoto and Peter Jeary, NBC NewsThe world's first moving images of a giant squid living in its natural habitat have been captured by a team of scientists led by a Japanese zoologist more than half a mile below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

The ghostly pictures of the 10-foot-long giant squid were recorded from a state-of–the-art submersible carrying a three-person team of zoologist Tsunemi Kubodera, a camera operator and the submersible’s pilot, who made around 100 dives during an expedition in summer 2012.

Although small by giant squid standards – the largest ever caught measured 59 feet – it was the first time a live giant squid had been caught on video deep in the ocean.

NBCNews