In August 2007 , Dr. David Guggenheim , a marine biologist have sex as The Ocean Doctor , joined the Greenpeace ship called the Esperanza as part of a run against overfishing in the Bering Sea . They used submersibles to search the underwater canyons that host much of the inscrutable - ocean life of the region .
While descending into the canon , Guggenheim reportsthat the submersible was attacked by some squid . As Guggenheim notes , such behaviour is highly strange . “ In all the age I ’ve been scuba diving , I ’ve never been attacked by a sea creature . ”
As unusual as such behaviour is , Guggenheim plausibly was n’t as surprised as the squid . The squid live at depths of about 300 meters , where little light penetrates , and feed mostly on bioluminescent creatures such as lanternfish . In the Bering Sea , they are so legion Guggenheim squall this deepness “ The squid layer . ”
calamary fishing fleets in the Pacific use huge lamps to pull in squid by dark . Something as bright as the submersible ’s light must have seemed like a major meal , and it appear some of the squid decided to feed , clinging to the lights and attack it with their beak before leave in a track of ink . One of the calamari overstep through the sub ’s thruster , getting chopped to musical composition in the process , but also brag a fuzee in the thruster , terminating the mission .
“ calamary are truly jet - impel , " note Guggenheim . " They drown faster than any other invertebrate by speedily shooting piss out of their mantle tooth decay into a jet stream honker they can steer , like a jet gravy boat . Some squid have been clocked up to nearly 15 miles per hour . Their blinding speed , coupled with their armament of two powerful tentacles ( in gain to their eight leg ) , barbed suckers and razor sharp beak , give them quite an border over their prey , which include diminished Pisces , crustacean , and mollusks , among others . ”
Although Guggenheim blogged about the adventure at the time , the event attracted little attention . However , for cephalapod cognizance workweek , Greenpeace dig out the footage , placed it on Vine.com and watched it draw the kind of attention that activists usually only dream of .
“ In the Bering Sea – where the US catches more Pisces than anywhere else – long hold up coral and sponge community put up fish and marine life with protection and nurseries , feeding and spawning grounds,”Greenpeace ’s web site says . " We must take a precautional approach and coif aside representative component of vital habitat – such as in the Bering Sea Canyons – as an insurance policy for our future . ”
rectification : The creature is not a California marketplace place calamari or 15 - 30 centimetre in length as the clause previously posit .
