" But the sea and maritime life are central to many of his poems, both short ( eg, " Erosion ," " Sea-Gulls ," " Silences ") and long, such as " The Cachalot " ( 1926 ), describing duels between a whale and its foes, a giant squid and a whaling ship and crew ; The Roosevelt and the Antinoe ( 1930 ), recounting the heroic rescue of the crew of a sinking freighter in a winter hurricane ; The Titanic ( 1935 ), an ironic retelling of a well-known marine tragedy ; and Behind the Log ( 1947 ), the dramatic story of the North Atlantic convoys during WWII.

Anning noted how closely the fossilised chambers resembled the ink sacs of modern squid and cuttle fish, which she had dissected to understand the anatomy of fossil cephalopods, and this led William Buckland to publish the conclusion that Jurassic belemnites had used ink for defence just as many modern cephalopods do.

The giant squid ( genus Architeuthis ) was filmed off the Ogasawara Islands for the first time in the wild on September 27, 2005, and was captured in December 2006.

Henry Lee ( naturalist ) | Henry Lee suggested the giant squid as an explanation.

File: 20000 squid Nautilus viewbay. jpg | The commencement of the attack of the squids at the Bahamas

File: 20000 squid Nautilus door. jpg | Captain Nemo fighting a giant squid aboard the Nautilus

Image: Giant squid Ranheim2. jpg | Examination of a 9 m giant squid, an abyssal giant and the second largest cephalopod.

Fishermen jigging for squid from the Queenscliff, Victoria | Queenscliff pier

Image: Long liner in Cook Strait, New Zealand 1988. jpg | Japanese squid jigger in Cook Strait, New Zealand

A Humboldt squid that washed up on a Santa Barbara, California | Santa Barbara shoreline

In the film, the monster is called a Kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid ; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone.

For the purposes of scoring Qu counts as two letters: squid would score two points ( for a five-letter word ) despite being formed from a chain of only four cubes.

Giant squid can grow to a tremendous size ( see Deep-sea gigantism ): recent estimates put the maximum size at for females and for males from caudal fin to the tip of the two long tentacles ( second only to the colossal squid at an estimated, one of the largest living organisms ).

Like all squid, a giant squid has a mantle ( torso ), eight arms, and two longer tentacles ( the longest known tentacles of any cephalopod ).

Giant squid breathe using two large gills inside the mantle cavity.

According to giant squid expert Steve O ' Shea, such lengths were likely achieved by greatly stretching the two tentacles like elastic bands.

In 1992, they sabotaged two Japanese ships that were drift-net fishing for squid by cutting their nets and throwing stink bombs on board the boats.

The teeth of the giant squid resemble bottle caps, and function like small, circular saws ; while the tentacles of the colossal squid wield two long rows of swiveling, tri-pointed hooks.

This works on the same principle as standard voltage clamps, but in contrast, the two electrodes used in this technique are glass pipettes with very fine tips ( smaller than 1 micrometer ), allowing for clamping of cells smaller than the squid axon.

Morphologically, armhook squid are fairly uniform: all species are characterised by the suckers of their arms, which are arranged in four rows ( series ) rather than the typical count of two.

Lycoteuthidae is a family of squid comprising four known genera in two subfamilies.

Octopoteuthidae is a family of squid comprising two genera.

Thysanoteuthis is a genus of large squid comprising one well known species, the Diamond Squid, and two dubious taxa.

Pholidoteuthis is a genus of squid in the monotypic family Pholidoteuthidae, comprising at least two species.

In Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, Lister believes Kochanski to be dead, but a conversation between Lister and two children in a hallucination caused by a despair squid reveals that her death is a cover story and that in truth she dumped Lister by fleeing Red Dwarf in a Blue Midget shuttle and that Kryten hid the truth by claiming she was sucked out of an airlock.

The ride features a giant squid centerpiece, with submarines and fish as cars each holding two passengers.

Myopsina is a suborder of squid containing two families.

Lycoteuthis is a genus containing two species of squid: Lycoteuthis springeri and Lycoteuthis lorigera.

Humboldt squid are thought to have a lifespan of only about one year, although larger individuals may survive up to two years.

* Megasquid, a 5-meter-high, 8-ton, omnivorous, terrestrial squid ; its eight arms have evolved into walking legs like an elephant's ; it uses its two long tentacles for feeding ;

Similar trends have been shown off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and even Alaska, although there are no year-round Humboldt squid populations in these locations.

In recent years, surimi and Mediterranean squid and octopus preparations have been added to the menu.

Ragfishes are found in deeper waters out to sea, and are said to eat other fish, squid, and octopus, although recent catches show no squid beaks but large amounts of jellyfish.

Although Humboldt squid are generally found in the warm Pacific waters off of the Mexican coast, recent years have shown an increase in northern migration.

A recent trend in the Philippine fishball industry is the introduction of ' ball ' varieties: chicken, squid ( cuttlefish actually ), and kikiam.

Of these economic activities, fishing amounts to 82. 6 % of the primary industry, with much of it dedicated to catching squid on the eastern coast of the island.

On Sept. 6, the Kretchmer rescued the crew of a trawler they found drifting on a life raft after they had abandoned a sinking ship.

chemical tanker 1, trawler / cargo ship 5, passenger / cargo 5

Unlike the film, the novel shows little overt Soviet interest in recovering the lost spy satellite other than a spy ship disguised as a fishing trawler waiting outside Holy Loch when the Tiger-fish sets sail.

at MFV Azalea, an old fishing trawler donated to the SA Navy by I & J fishing company for use a target ship.

When two of them go on deck to investigate, they see a ghostly looking clipper ship pulling alongside their trawler.

In August 1964 the station acquired a new ship, a converted fishing trawler named MV Norderney, and equipped it with a more efficient antenna and a 10-kilowatt transmitter, as well as an anchor designed to keep it correctly oriented.

Fish landing are primarily with Ocean Choice International's freezer trawler as it's Kraut Point, Nova Scotia base for the off shore scallop fishing industry and ship repairs.

In 2004, Cox again made headlines when he commissioned an old trawler, consecrated it and renamed it " The Little Bishop " in order to protest against the abortion ship being sailed into Ireland by the pro abortion choice feminist group Women on Waves.

* HMS Vulcan was a trawler used as a depot ship for Coastal Forces between 1937 and 1947.