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For many years, the kraken is a terrible sea monster that attacks ships and dragging them under water was considered such a fairy tale as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. But time has brought its adjustments. Tales from the Ages Kraken was known back in antiquity. Sailors in his existence are not at all doubted it. Word-of-mouth charming stories passed from mouth to mouth like a giant monster, clutching the tentacles of the ship, turned him and dragged him into the cold sea depths. Kraken as completely the real being was described by Aristotle and Pliny the Elder. IN Chinese treatise “Catalog of mountains and seas” kraken was described as “fish hill” with a human face, arms and legs. In Europe, the kraken became famous thanks to the Scandinavians. This is a formidable sea monster described in a 13th-century Norwegian treatise “The Mirror of the King”, and in the work of the Swedish enlightener Olaf Magnus (1490-1557) it is the first time referred to as the kraken. We will open the book on the one that interests us page. “His appearance is terrible. Head in thorns, in all directions from it horns stick out, so the kraken looks like a tree torn from the root. The length of the body is 15 cubits, the head is 12. The eyes are red, fiery, at night it seems like a flame burns in the depths of the sea. The width of each eyes – 1 elbow. (For reference: the Scandinavian elbow is 0.5938m. Those. the length of the kraken according to the treatise is about 27m.) 
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When it pops up, then over the water like masts soar it tentacles with which it can pull even the largest vessel. Plunging to the bottom, it gives rise to a powerful whirlpool and a ship that has entered it has no chance of salvation. “However, until mid-19th century kraken did not find a place on the pages encyclopedias. Scientists are incredulous people, they have few stories serve the skin and bones. Soon they received both. Material evidence In November 1861, the ship Alekton met a kraken in the Canary Islands. Worrying for the fate of the ship, the captain ordered to open fire from guns on the monster. They tried to raise the killed monster aboard, but this venture quickly refused: the weight of the monster was about 2 tons. The story could become another bike, but the sailors brought with them fragments of the body, common weighing 20 kg, which provided the French Academy of Sciences. By to the conclusion of academics, the terrible kraken was a giant squid. The French Academy recognized them with great reservations Existence.
A photo open source Acceptance of the Kraken by science a breakthrough came in 1873. In the Newfoundland area, fishermen stumbled into the sea floating and showing no signs life is a giant carcass. One of the daredevils poked her with a hook and then regretted it. The carcass came to life. With long tentacles, the kraken grabbed for board the boat and began to sink into the sea. One of the fishermen grabbed an ax. and began to chop tentacles. The kraken released an ink cloud and disappeared. in depth. It fell into the hands of scientists already quite suitable for study fragment of the tentacle of a mythical animal. Just a month later in In the same area, an entire copy was caught in the network. Some hours there was a struggle between man and animal, man won. Scientists have already received a whole 10-meter monster. Soon such there were dozens of cases. Unknown reasons caused massive pestilence among marine inhabitants, and the sea was increasingly throwing giant carcasses ashore. The kraken has been studied, measured and described. is he turned out to be a giant squid, cephalopod and got name architeutis. Size ranges from 2.5 to 12m. In 1887 on the coast of New Zealand, the sea threw a specimen long 17.4m So, one legend became less? Tales of sailors about how the kraken sinks ships – a fairy tale? Do not hurry. Last attacks on ships In January 2003, in the waters of Madeira a gigantic squid attacked the Jerome yacht. “The monster sucked to the stern, several tentacles (each was thicker than my leg!) threw over board and began with all his strength to pull the ship to the bottom. I don’t know what happened, but for some reason the monster let go of the ship and left to the depths. If the monster continued its attempts, I would be here wasn’t. “So shared his impressions of the experienced yachtsman Olivier de Kersuason. 
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In 2011, in the Gulf of California before the eyes of people squid attacked a 12-meter fishing boat. Tentacles he grabbed people and pulled them under water. In the end, he grabbed the tentacles overboard and began to rock the ship until he turned it over. According to the testimony zoologists, the ship was attacked by a carnivorous squid Humboldt living in these waters. As a result of uncontrollable catch of fish, food in the sea is becoming less. Appearance Cannibal squids at sea is a bad sign. Already captured cases of squid attacks on divers and scuba divers. Kraken there is! As for the possible sizes of giant squids, then there is evidence of the observation of squids with a length of 20m. Zoologists allow the existence in the depths of the ocean of individuals up to 50m long. Scientists assume that all found specimens of giant squid (12-15m) belong to young individuals. The size of their suction cups 5 see. And on many whales they find traces from suction cups to 20cm in diameter. So take and multiply 15 by 4. Is it impressive?
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