I don't know what news Mr. Wilmet watched as the giant squid just caught was
not caught by accident.   It was caught by a team of researchers from the
National Sience Museum, Tokyo, headed by Dr. Tsunemi Kubodera.  It was not
"killed" but died during capture as the result of being entangled (the bait
used was a squid most of us would consider "giant").  For many years the
home territory of these squid was sought, and has now been found by tracking
sperm whales.

These gint squid are a primary food of sperm whales and it was that fact
that enabled the researchers to finally locate their habitat (the small
squid did not get lost in "undeep" water as stated by Mr. Wilmet).  As sperm
whales need 500 to 1,000 kilograms of food every day, and there are believed
to be about 200,000 of them,  there are obviously a lot of qiant squid!

dick petit

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