Fay Posted December 24, 2004 #1 Share Posted December 24, 2004 I just read about this incredible octopus like creature. This book says that it is a mile in circumference but I find that quite unbelivable. Researchers who have studied it, say "it lives yet, but in a state of hibernation, sleeping, far, far beneath the abysmal sea" What does everyone else make of this Kraken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Manfred Posted December 24, 2004 #2 Share Posted December 24, 2004 One of two possibilities: 1 - An exaggeration on the giant Squid. Fishermen spot them and create stories. 2 - It is what people say. Though scientifically it's merely a species of enormous squid or octopus that mistakes ships for whales. Probably long extinct...probably hunted to death by an ignorant man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted December 24, 2004 #3 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Well, we do have a confirmed 'giant' squid, and there is intriguing evidence of the possiblity that a giant octopus exists as well, although, being bottom dwellers, it is diffucult to think of them attacking ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Manfred Posted December 24, 2004 #4 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Well, we do have a confirmed 'giant' squid, and there is intriguing evidence of the possiblity that a giant octopus exists as well, although, being bottom dwellers, it is diffucult to think of them attacking ships. 421379[/snapback] Perhaps in defense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uversa Posted December 24, 2004 #5 Share Posted December 24, 2004 (edited) Interesting story anyway, about them being mistaken for whales Edited December 24, 2004 by campbell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Manfred Posted December 24, 2004 #6 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Very cool picture, Campbell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted December 24, 2004 Author #7 Share Posted December 24, 2004 it is diffucult to think of them attacking ships. This Kraken is actually so told to be very territorial with ecxellent sight range. So with the attacking ship thing, they might have just felt endangered and attacked out of instinct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Manfred Posted December 24, 2004 #8 Share Posted December 24, 2004 A couple more Kraken pictures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athenian Posted December 24, 2004 #9 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Could it it be that huge that it attacks with its tentacles while it is still on the ocean floor?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennRose Posted December 24, 2004 #10 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Sperm whales have been found with huge sucker-mark scars on their body which leads scientist to believe the giant squids we've found washed ashore on beaches are only small specimens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnSide Posted December 24, 2004 #11 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Old classic photos. I consider myself to be the sites resident Giant Squid expert. I've done so much research and studying on them, i've even had chat sessions with the worlds leading researcher on the Giant and Colossal Squids, Dr. Steve O'Shea. In my opinion it's a definate yes that the Kraken of old is what old sailors interpreted the Giant Squid as. Mainly the Kraken was a story blown out of proportion based on the bodies of Giant Squid washed up on shores. But it has been documented that in some waters Giant Squid will attack ships because from underwater the shape directly resembles the Giant Squids main predator, the Sperm Whale. It's the same reason why most Great White Sharks attack humans, because their surfboards look like their main prey Sealions. The biggest Colossal Squids ever discovered get up to about 75 feet with clubbed arms extended, and it is speculated they could get bigger. But a mile across? Well first off how would you measure a sleeping Squid that's a mile long and wide? You don't, it's simply an extremely exaggerated story based on the flickers of truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Manfred Posted December 24, 2004 #12 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Which squid has the spiked tentacles? The Giant or the Colossal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnSide Posted December 24, 2004 #13 Share Posted December 24, 2004 The Colossal Squid. Generally bigger than the Giant Squid, the Colossal has replaced the huge suckers on it's clubs with razor-sharp hooks that can swivel in place and hook onto just about anything, digging in deeper with the swivelling action. Quite scary. Extend your index finger in a hook shape, that's the average size of just one of the hooks, and they have ALOT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richdog Posted December 24, 2004 #14 Share Posted December 24, 2004 The Colossal Squid. Generally bigger than the Giant Squid, the Colossal has replaced the huge suckers on it's clubs with razor-sharp hooks that can swivel in place and hook onto just about anything, digging in deeper with the swivelling action. Quite scary. Extend your index finger in a hook shape, that's the average size of just one of the hooks, and they have ALOT. 421465[/snapback] I've just done some reading up on it, damn that is one mean son of a beeyatch. Imagine seeing one of those come for you while being in the wayer, I'd prefer a Great White Shark over one of those things any day. I bet it would be a terrible, painful death, even compared to that of a shark. Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnSide Posted December 24, 2004 #15 Share Posted December 24, 2004 You wouldn't want to face off with one. The suckers have tiny razors on them too. First it would latch onto you with it's long club-arms, it's hooks digging deep into your skin and swivelling to get a good grip. If that doesn't kill you, you'll be pulled into it's sucker tentacles. Each tentacle would grip onto you with several hundred razor suckers and if you're still alive after that you'll have the privaledge of being drawn into it's beak, which it would use to cut insicions in your body and actually suck out all the fluids in you, leaving you looking somewhat like a soggy prune. Nasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inuronin Posted December 24, 2004 #16 Share Posted December 24, 2004 the kraken is awesome!!! of course people all over the world have seen one and [and it is real ] its no a whale it's a living creature! it attack and kills the sailors of ship unfortunate enough to stumble on to it of course it was created in ancient times so anything they hadent seen it freaked them out thats probably how the scylla, hydra, leviathen, golems, goblins, dwarves and elves where created odd lokking things or creatures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inuronin Posted December 24, 2004 #17 Share Posted December 24, 2004 weird people mistake lots of thing for creatures midgets as dwarves, long eared people elves and all kinds of stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dando Kast Posted December 24, 2004 #18 Share Posted December 24, 2004 hmmm.... no more swimming for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurnSide Posted December 24, 2004 #19 Share Posted December 24, 2004 *pats inuronin's head* Good boy. Have a cookie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted December 24, 2004 Author #20 Share Posted December 24, 2004 The Marie Celeste was found intact but abandoned in mid-ocean. Some people say that this ship was attacked by the kraken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richdog Posted December 24, 2004 #21 Share Posted December 24, 2004 You wouldn't want to face off with one. The suckers have tiny razors on them too. First it would latch onto you with it's long club-arms, it's hooks digging deep into your skin and swivelling to get a good grip. If that doesn't kill you, you'll be pulled into it's sucker tentacles. Each tentacle would grip onto you with several hundred razor suckers and if you're still alive after that you'll have the privaledge of being drawn into it's beak, which it would use to cut insicions in your body and actually suck out all the fluids in you, leaving you looking somewhat like a soggy prune. Nasty. 421545[/snapback] Awww you make it sound so loveable, I actually want to pat one now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Manfred Posted December 25, 2004 #22 Share Posted December 25, 2004 The Marie Celeste was found intact but abandoned in mid-ocean. Some people say that this ship was attacked by the kraken. 421760[/snapback] Any evidence? Perhaps some damage on the deck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fay Posted December 25, 2004 Author #23 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Any evidence? Perhaps some damage on the deck? it said that there was scratch marks on the side of the ship but I think thats all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanato Posted December 25, 2004 #24 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Well i think that there was a Kraken type creater, maybe the were the Predicessor to the Giant and Colossal Squid, but lived along with its breatheran and went extincet in the past few hundred years because of fishing. ~Thanato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Reflection the Hedgehog Posted December 26, 2004 #25 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Or perhaps the Kraken is similar to the Giant Octopuse in which it looks like one, yet is not a bottem dweller. Or maybe it is a Giant Starfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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