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新东方网英语讯：日本国立科博物馆NHK与Discovery合作，在太平洋海底630米处拍到这只巨型鱿鱼。这是首度在含氧量稀薄的海底自然栖息地拍到巨型鱿鱼。
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First Images of Giant Squid Filmed in Deep Ocean
A Japanese-led team of scientists has captured on film the world's first live images of a giant squid, journeying to the depths of the ocean in search of the mysterious creature thought to have inspired the myth of the `"kraken'', a tentacled monster.
The images of the silvery, three-meter-long (10 feet) cephalopod, looming out of the darkness nearly 1 km below the surface, were taken last July near the Ogasawara islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo.
Though the beast was small by giant squid standards - the largest ever caught stretched 18 meters long, tentacles and all - filming it secretly in its natural habitat was a key step towards understanding the animal, researchers said.
"Many people have tried to capture an image of a giant squid alive in its natural habitat, whether researchers or film crews. But they all failed,'' said Tsunemi Kubodera, a zoologist at Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science, who led the team.
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这只鱿鱼长约3米，似乎失去了两只长的触腕，如果长触腕尾端，估计可有8米长。科学家尚不清楚其断腕的原因。
"These are the first-ever images of a real live giant squid,'' Kubodera said of the footage, shot by Japanese national broadcaster NHK and the Discovery Channel.
The key to their success, said Kubodera, was a small submersible rigged with lights invisible to both human and cephalopod eyes.
He, a cameraman and the submersible's pilot drifted silently down to 630 meters and released a one-meter-long squid as bait. In all, they descended around 100 times.
"If you try and approach making a load of noise, using a bright white light, then the squid won't come anywhere near you. That was our basic thinking,'' Kubodera said.
"So we sat there in the pitch black, using a near-infrared light invisible even to the human eye, waiting for the giant squid to approach,'' he said.
As the squid neared they began to film, following it into the depths to around 900 meters.
"I've seen a lot of giant squid specimens in my time, but mainly those hauled out of the ocean. This was the first time for me to see with my own eyes a giant squid swimming,'' he said. "It was stunning, I couldn't have dreamt that it would be so beautiful. It was such a wonderful creature.''
Until recently, little was known about the creature believed to be the real face of the mythical kraken, a sea-monster blamed by sailors for sinking ships off Norway in the 18th century.
But for Kubodera, the animal held no such terror.
"A giant squid essentially lives a solitary existence, swimming about all alone in the deep sea. It doesn't live in a group,'' he said. "So when I saw it, well, it looked to me like it was rather lonely.''
新闻快讯：
据科学家久保寺博士说，他们去年7月底在太平洋北方父岛（Chichi Island）移动约15公里的海底630米处发现这只巨型鱿鱼。久保寺等三人搭乘潜艇，跟随巨乌贼潜入900米深处，之后它小时在更深的深海。研究小组此前尝试100次任务，花费400个小时在海底寻找这只鱿鱼。
词汇点拨：
in search of 寻找
mysterious 神秘的
submersible 潜入水中
monster 怪物
pitch 音高，强度
stunning 极富魅力的
solitary 独自的，唯一的
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