Unable to keep a firm grip on the slippery steel, the squids slid aft into the ship's propeller. In the 1930s the crew of the Royal Norwegian Navy tanker, the "Brunswick" reported that the ship was stalked and attacked several times by giant squids, which wrapped themselves around the ship's hull. When it finally died, the fishermen brought out axes and butchered the gargantuan animal for dog food. One of the squid’s 35 foot-long tentacles was chopped off and weighed in at 734 pounds. Its huge mantle measured 20 feet from the tip of its fin to its formidable parrot-like beak. At low tide the writhing creature lay marooned and doomed on the muddy flats. Three fishermen hooked onto the floundering animal with a grapple hook, which they tied with a line to a tree on shore, and then they waited for the tide to go out. On November 2, 1878, an Atlantic Giant Squid became stranded in shallow water in the harbor at Thimble Tickle, Newfoundland. To modern biology, the world's largest invertebrate is known as Archituethis-Greek for Ruling Squid. In the "Odyssey" the mythic beast was called "Scylla," in Tennyson's time, the "Kraken." Generations have been horrified by Jules Vern's nightmarish creature in "Ten Thousand Leagues under the Sea," the Giant Squid. Alfred, Lord Tennysonįor as long as ships have plied the world’s oceans, sailors have returned from distant seas with terrifying tales of many armed monsters rising up from the abyss, attacking ships and devouring men. VIII WGAE REG.NO.R07960-00 For Carrie Chapter One Below the thunders of the upper deep Far, far beneath the abysmal sea His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth.
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