Comments on: Bigfin Squid Videos

By: Rand

Rand — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:27:39 +0000

Wow, thanks Rob, nice of you to stop by and point those out, very interesting creature isn’t it. Seems like very interesting work as well, do you guys see any other strange critters with your cameras?

By: Rob Curry

Rob Curry — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:09:28 +0000

Thought you’d like top see one of the videos we have of this critter!

http://archive.serpentproject.com/view/species/Magnapinna_sp..html

By: Rand

Rand — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:32:31 +0000

Cheers Murdock, glad to be of service. It’s hard finding the strangest of the strange mind you, but I hope to be able to bring it to everyone when I do.

Cheers,

Rand

By: Murdock

Murdock — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:27:20 +0000

“Geez I love this stuff, I can’t imagine how boring life would be without a daily dose of the strange. ”

I completely agree.

Glad I found this website. I now know where to get my “daily dose of the strange”

By: Rand

Rand — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:35:15 +0000

Cheers Orie, just makes me wonder just what they may have missed on those ROV videos. Gotta be crazy amounts of strange and wonderful things down there still undiscovered.

P.S sorry about your comment not appearing straight away, had it set to moderate comment with more that two links, all fixed up now.

Later,

Rand

By: Orie

Orie — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:50:53 +0000

From what I can tell the Spar is an offshore platform known as the Pardido regional host. The platform is tethered to the sea floor. Anyways in most offshore operations they user ROVs to survey down below and they can also perform small task. I believe this is where the video came from. Pasted a couple of links below.

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/10/26/shell_to_develop_ultra_deepwater_project/

http://robotics.me.jhu.edu/dscl/ps/icra2000_whitcomb_uuv_preprint.pdf