NOAA Fisheries Service
A 19.5-foot giant squid caught in the Gulf of Mexico (photo)
September 23, 2009On July 30, 2009, a 19.5-foot (5.94-metre) giant squid, hauled up in a trawl (seen in the photo), had been pulled 1,500 feet below the surface off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico on the NOAA research vessel Gordon Gunter. Pictures released...