Ok so they have live footage of a giant squid what does everyone think about giant octopuses octopi that would be sweet.

{edit to fix topic title} oc·to·pi (ŏk'tə-pī') n. A plural of octopus.
-Dot

They're cool, but I'm thinking giant appetizer!

Actually, the correct (but hardly ever used) term is "octopi."

I was amazed by that. It certainly seems like some of the historical accounts of "monsters" in the sea were in fact true.

There's never been a carcass or sighting of a giant Octopi, ever.

There are the 'globsters' of course which usually wind up being whate blubber.
I believe it's quite possible they exist, but Octopi are bottom-dwelling creatures, so if massive ones lived at the depths the only way we'd see one, live or dead, would be to run across them on the deep deep ocean beds. And that's not really a possibility open to us at this time, although it may be soon.

BurnSide, look here: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=51880

Is that an Octopus?
No, it is not.

So, what's your point?
If you just wanted to show me it, well of course i've seen it. There's a pinned topic about it here in the Crypto section.

I'm thinking, now that i've seen the footage I'm staying the hell away from there and any open ocean.

They only live deep in the ocean Steve, I highly doubt your gonna experience one attacking you.

Better to be safe then sorry.
And where do you now think those stories and drawings of giant octopusses attacking ships came from?

Hey Burnside, google GBO (Breat Bermuda Octopus)
or find it a www.cryptozoology.com

http://theshadowlands.net/serpent.htm

I would like to have a little more proof then just one fisherman's account. Anyone find any more information on the corpse they reference?

o yea, its theshadowlands, not sryptozoology.com..thanks for pointing out my error

Oh, don't worry, I googled it like you suggested, and thats what came up.

the st augustine creature carcass appears to be a giant octopus

Giant Squids.



I goggled it, came up with nothing but globsters and interesting menus.
What's it supposed to be?



Whale carcass.
The dead body becomes boyant in water, neither sinking nor floating, until decomposition goes so far that the bones actually tear away from the flesh and sink, while the remaining blubber and flesh, rotting, floats and washes ashore.
The end effect resembles a massive blob with tentacles, and could be confused with Octopi. But all tests ever done on globsters always show that the tissue is that of shark or whale, never Octopi or Squid.

A round of aplause for Burnside's logic. Well done old bean

I too think that a giant octopus could exist at the bottom of the ocean but there's no way humans could go that low in the ocean. It would have to be machines. Any really old sightings of giant octopi were probably giant squids. People in old times probably couldn't tell the diference.

Stories of squids attacking ships actuallly came from the fact that sailors were often paid acording to the dificulty of a voyage. So sailors would see dead squids at sea and say to themselve" lets say that we saw a monster that could of attacked us" and viola more money for the voyage.

My father had a HUGE octupus on his line while we were on a deep sea fishing trip. It was around 12 feet long. We got it up to the surface of the water while we were looking at it the damn thing start twirling into a knot and it ended up breaking the line. It was a beautiful sight expecially the way it swam while going back under. I don't know if you would call it huge but the guy who riggs the poles on the boat told us it wasn't out of the ordinary to see such a big octupus. He said that he's seen bigger and that its really cool to watch them attacking something.

That would probably have been a Giant Pacific Octopus.
It is not at all unknown for Octopi to grow to massive sizes. Some divers claim to have seen some as large as 23 feet stretched out. However, it's more common that they never get bigger than 5-6 feet.
Seeing one so large is indeed a treat.

This specimen was about that size.






Thank yee me old oyster, good to see you around again.
Impeckible deduction yourself, it never occured to me that sailors were paid by difficulty. Indeed being attacked by sea monsters would surely raise the bill.

hey Burnside...try theshadowlands.com...Original has a link to it and they have some stories about GBO....also try Lucida (right spelling) the name of an octopus that washed up on the beach in the Carribbean

theshadowlands.com is an unregistered domain trying to sell me porn and gadgets and pretends to have a few ghost articles but not really.


Lucida is an orchestra company.

o sorry, ill find the right spelling
http://theshadowlands.net/serpent.htm#augustine
try that "thesadowlands"
the articles are spread out...there is an index at the top of the page

Try LUSCA...haha, i speeled it wrong in the prvious post

That link just refers to the most famous and completely debunked Globster, it's nothing new.
Tissue samples were taken but never tested, they remained in a lab in london for about 45-50 years until tests were finally done on them and it turned out it was whale blubber, nothing more.
As they always are.

no no no, there is another article about a GBO, and Lusca...NOT THE ST. AUGUSTINE CREATURE

You mean, this one?



That's only 2.9 meters or about 9 feet. The picture of the living one i posted earlier is about that size.

Surprisingly, octopuses and octopi are both correct plurals for octopus. Additionally, octopodes is the extremely pedantic 'original' plural, which more closely fits the root of the word octopus.

Sadly, the plural of hippopotamus is still not hippopotamapodes.

thats intresting angryC
Burnside, no not that either...its about Lusca, a giant Octopus thyat washed up on shore before the ST. Augustine...WAY BEFOREE....
and there was also a encounter posted there about a lobsterman

So.. from all that i gather here, IF the giant octo exhisted then it would be found even further down then the giant squid, yes? Seeing as how the octo is a bottom dweller.

I think we are a long ways from finding one alive, and not so long away from finding some sort of proof, IF they exhisted/exhisted.