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07-18-2009, 04:46 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Beaupré, Province of Québec, Canada
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 | Squids infesting beaches of Southern California... 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  |
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07-18-2009, 05:09 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Redding, California
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| 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.
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07-18-2009, 05:15 AM
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| WOW!!! Like women then..beautiful but deadly !  Great find mate, THANKS for posting! |
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07-18-2009, 08:34 AM
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| Minister of Whoopass   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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| Dave is right, diving with Humbolts is just asking for trouble....
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07-18-2009, 10:46 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas
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| 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. 
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07-18-2009, 10:57 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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 | 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.
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07-18-2009, 10:59 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South Carolina
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| <perk> Oo, calamari!
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07-18-2009, 12:06 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| Arent US marines sometimes referred to as squids?
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07-18-2009, 12:25 PM
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| "Shooter" Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| No, Navy sailors are sometimes referred to as "squids". Call a Marine a squid and you are likely to get pummeled heavily.
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07-18-2009, 01:18 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida
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 | 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.
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07-18-2009, 01:56 PM
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"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
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07-18-2009, 02:57 PM
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| Yeah. And there is a overflow of jellyfish in the Mediterranean Sea, too. But those squids are much more scary!
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07-18-2009, 03:11 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Texas
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| I thought this was going to be about drunken sailors on liberty getting sc@#%ed blued, and tattooed. |
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07-18-2009, 03:37 PM
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07-18-2009, 03:40 PM
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