How many of you folks would copy this guy's deeds and how many wouldn't do this at gun point? I think I'm one of the latter.

http://www.deeperblue.net/article.php/696/11

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Gimme a minute to read through Jay's latest observations...

Wow. I've done two open sea scuba dives, in the clear waters off the Florida panhandle, as well as half a dozen reef snorkling trips and the biggest thing I've seen to date are 2-1/2' barracude and about a 300 lb grouper.

Absolutely captivating account, but no way, man, at least not in anything less protective than a mini-sub.

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I am Mugs, of the Alien clan of Usa, Nordamerica, a Terran, of Sol. A human.

Whoever says "perception is reality" is daft. It's merely an abstraction, and often not a very good one.

I'd go, but with the suit AND a cage of the necessary strength.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

But those darn chiton-ringed tentacles would reach right through that cage... But with the right cage, you'd at least be free of the beak.

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I am Mugs, of the Alien clan of Usa, Nordamerica, a Terran, of Sol. A human.

Whoever says "perception is reality" is daft. It's merely an abstraction, and often not a very good one.

I think they mention the cage designed by the author has a fine mesh over the bars. Keeps out those pesty tenticles.

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Gimme a minute to read through Jay's latest observations...

I've seen a show on the discovery channel about these Humboldt squid. If I had one of those armored suits I'd love to swim with them. Cephalopods are some of my most favorite animals and being able to swim with such large, beautiful, intelligent, and ferocious squid would be breathtaking, especially to have an encounter or "dance" like this fellow had.

I think even he referred to it as an "attack," and "wrestling until he became exhausted," not a dance.

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I am Mugs, of the Alien clan of Usa, Nordamerica, a Terran, of Sol. A human.

Whoever says "perception is reality" is daft. It's merely an abstraction, and often not a very good one.

Well, he did refer to him and the squid circling eachother and examining eachother visually and physically as a dance, thats why I said "dance", even though the squid attacked him a few times during this, I think I'd see even that as a good experience if I had all the proper armor on.