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NHNZ to Film Colossal Squid for Discovery Channel Filming gets underway next week when NHNZ crew will document the first scientific investigation ever of an adult colossal squid by New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa.
The largest known specimen of colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), caught by the San Aspiring in the Ross Sea and gifted to Te Papa in February 2007 by the Ministry of Fisheries, is scheduled for defrosting and examination on Wednesday April 30.
NHNZ will be filming the entire process for a Discovery Channel in-depth documentary to be released worldwide in late 2008 as part of their support of the Te Papa colossal squid preservation programme. Discovery Channel is also helping to support the research project.
NHNZ Director of Marketing and Development Neil Harraway said the company was thrilled to be involved in the ground-breaking scientific project.
The colossal squid has a universal appeal to everyone's imagination that reaches beyond the scientific community. There is real synergy between the researchers' aim of yielding new scientific facts and NHNZ's reputation for bringing new stories to the world's attention.
Te Papa's Natural Environment Director Dr Carol Diebel said Dr Steve O'Shea and Ms Kat Bolstad of Auckland University of Technology and Dr Tsunemi Kubodera of Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science will lead the examination of this unique and important specimen.
The squid, weighing 495kg and estimated to be 6 - 8m long, will be removed from storage in a walk-in freezer and placed in a temporary tank filled with a salty (saline) solution. Salty water freezes at a lower temperature than freshwater thus ensuring the solution in the tank will remain at or below zero degrees while melting the freshwater block of ice surrounding the squid. This results in a gradual defrosting process that may take up to three to four days but helps to keep the squid in good condition for dissection and preservation.
The scientists will examine the squid's anatomy in detail, take measurements, remove the stomach (and its contents), beak and other mouthparts; and determine the sex of the squid. In addition, the scientists will take tissue samples for DNA analysis. They will have to work quickly as the specimen, once defrosted, will start to degrade or rot.
