Meanwhile, off the coast of Oregon at a depth of 2000 meters…

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   Glen Davidson

   7 August 2012 at 12:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Dumbo wafting gently through the current. It’s heaven in liquid form.

   Glen Davidson

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   Dalillama, Schmott Guy

   7 August 2012 at 12:59 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That was stunningly beautiful.

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   fastlane

   7 August 2012 at 1:42 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That’s a bit deep and cold for just a wetsuit eh? Looks like I’ll have to get dry suit certified….

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   maxdwolf

   7 August 2012 at 2:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   2000 meters? Wow! That’s like 20 Godzillas.

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   PatrickG

   7 August 2012 at 2:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   20 Godzillas indeed… I just can’t get over the concept of something as squishy (-seeming) as an octopus withstanding ~2×10^4 kPa*. It just boggles my mind.

   I mean, was that really at 2km depth? Really? Brain. Struggling.

   SQUISHY BUT STRONG.

   *P_atm = 101.3 kPa.

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   mepmep09

   7 August 2012 at 2:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Beautiful thang, that was.

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   cactuswren

   7 August 2012 at 3:10 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Wings. It has wings.

   I DID NOT KNOW THERE WERE OCTOPI WITH WINGS.

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   otrame

   7 August 2012 at 3:30 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   *sigh

   Beautiful thing.

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   khms

   7 August 2012 at 3:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   withstanding ~2×10^4 kPa

   Why would it need to?

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    No One

    7 August 2012 at 5:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Out-fucking-standing! I love this planet!

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    Olav

    7 August 2012 at 5:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Khms, #9, exactly. Its internal pressure would of course be equal to the water pressure.

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    kayden

    7 August 2012 at 6:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Nice video — funny how the deep sea looks like outer space: black and spooky. The music is soothing too. (I can kind of play Moonlight Sonata — very badly though).

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    Pyra

    7 August 2012 at 9:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I love the wings. There’s so much about aquatic life I don’t know. This was a nice lesson for the day.

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    ChasCPeterson

    8 August 2012 at 12:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    grimpy.
    Very, very grimpy.

    other underwater flyers:
    various birds, notably penguins
    rays
    sea turtles
    Carettochelys
    …?

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    bad Jim

    8 August 2012 at 3:23 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Dumbo with a multi-tentacular trunk. Those ears!

    When you look into their eyes, cephalopods are completely copacetic, but when they smile and their tentacles writhe, you can either regard them with horror as avatars of Cthulhu, or instead reflect, huh, I wouldn’t have thought of that.

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    PatrickG

    8 August 2012 at 6:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Yeah, I wrote that off in some haste. It was meant as sort of a ‘if you put me in that water suddenly, things would go badly’ metaphor that obviously failed. :)