Post date: Jan 09, 2013 5:21:40 PM
Newly released video shows giant squid in ocean depths.
AT SEA OFF OGASAWARA ISLANDS, JAPAN (NHK/NEP/DISCOVERY CHANNEL) - Video showing the world's first moving images of the mysterious giant squid in its natural habitat have been released by documentary filmmakers in conjunction with Japanese broadcaster NHKand the Discovery Channel.
The video was shot last July near the Ogasawara islands, 1000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo and shows a three-metre-long cephalopod.
Little was known until recently about the creature thought to have inspired the myth of the "kraken", a tentacled monster that was blamed by sailors for sinking ships off Norway in the 18th century.
NHK will air its video footage on January 13, followed by the Discovery Channel on January 27.