“How could something so big live in our ocean and remain unfilmed until now?” asks Widder on the TED2013 stage. “We’ve only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there — fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can’t even imagine. Yet, we’ve spent only a tiny fraction of the money on ocean exploration that we’ve spent on space exploration.“
To see the giant squid for yourself, and to watch footage of the crew as they caught their first glimpses of it, watch this talk — a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Discovery Channel documentary, Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real. And here, more talks on incredible oceanic creatures:
- Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus
- Tierney Thys swims with the giant sunfish
- Edith Widder: The weird, wonderful world of bioluminscence
- David Gallo: Underwater astonishments
- Brian Skerry reveals ocean’s glory — and horror
- Jim Toomey: Learning from Sherman the shark
- Margaret Wertheim: the beautiful math of coral
- Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world
- Asha de Vos: Why are blue whales so enormous?