![]() ![]() 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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