Squids infesting beaches of Southern California...

[Maestro]

Greetings ladies and gentlemen.

5-foot-long squids are reported attacking the swimmers/divers at the beaches in the San Diego area.

Squid vs. scuba: Invasion of jumbo squid off San Diego coast spooks and intrigues divers - Yahoo! Canada News

 

[GrauGeist]

Man, those people that are diving in the Humboldt's midst are crazy stupid!

Those things will go into a frenzy the moment one draws blood, and they are fully capable of skeletonizing a human in no time.

We used to encounter those things off Baja, and they can be bad news.

 

[A4K]

WOW!!! Like women then..beautiful but deadly !

Great find mate, THANKS for posting!

 

[lesofprimus]

Dave is right, diving with Humbolts is just asking for trouble....

 

[RabidAlien]

The seas are straaaaaaaaaange places, full of strange and undiscovered critters. Still, to swim with a known aggressive species, would indeed present a conundrum. Beautiful creatures, but deadly. Me....I'd send a DSRV.

 

[evangilder]

I'll keep my happy butt in the sky above to look down on them. I went through scuba training when I was in the AF. To be honest, I hated it. I am not a claustrophobic, but the mask made me feel confined and constricted. It just didn't feel natural to me.

 

[vikingBerserker]

<perk> Oo, calamari!

 

[syscom3]

Arent US marines sometimes referred to as squids?

 

[evangilder]

No, Navy sailors are sometimes referred to as "squids". Call a Marine a squid and you are likely to get pummeled heavily.

 

[Maglar]

I would keep myself out of the water, but some people dont care to listen. With what you guys said about the squid owning a human, its like saying "Oh yeah, go into that burning house, you'll be safe!". I go snorkeling sometimes and I always get the anxiety, anything can get you out in the ocean, a dangerous mysterious place indeed.

 

[wheelsup_cavu]

No, Navy sailors are sometimes referred to as "squids". Call a Marine a squid and you are likely to get pummeled heavily.

You ain't just a kiddin about that...

"Jarhead" was the term I thought was one of the terms used to describe Marines by the other services Sys.

Jarhead (2005)

I built first and second stage regulator parts a few years back.
When I heard how Scuba Diving worked there was no way I was going to do it.


Wheels

 

[Pisis]

Yeah. And there is a overflow of jellyfish in the Mediterranean Sea, too. But those squids are much more scary!

 

[Amsel]

I thought this was going to be about drunken sailors on liberty getting sc@#%ed blued, and tattooed.

 

[syscom3]

I thought this was going to be about drunken sailors on liberty getting sc@#%ed blued, and tattooed.

Thats what I thought too

 

[RabidAlien]

I thought this was going to be about drunken sailors on liberty getting sc@#%ed blued, and tattooed.

Hey! That's just a vicious rumor! We don't do that anymore!!! *lights up cigarette and pays hooker with half-drunk bottle of whiskey as tattoo artist works on other arm*

 

[Maestro]