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Description	A diver swimming with a live giant squid in Mizuhashi Fisherina, Toyama Bay, Toyama Prefecture, Japan, on 24 December 2015. The animal spent several hours in the harbour, where it was filmed by local divers before being guided out to sea. The resulting videos rank among the highest-quality live giant squid footage ever captured. The squid was estimated to be 3.7 m (12 ft) long excluding the tentacles.
Source	Report in The Wall Street Journal, 28 December 2015 (full size image); image was auto-normalized in GIMP.
Article	List of giant squid specimens and sightings (21st century)
Portion used	single downsampled image from series
Low resolution?	yes (<100k pixels)
Purpose of use	As one of the first photographs of a live giant squid interacting (and especially swimming) with a human, the image depicts a historically significant and widely reported event. It is intended to show: (a) a representative image of the event itself, discussed in the adjoining text, which cannot be conveyed in text alone; (b) the appearance of the specimen in its live state and its size relative to an adult human diver; (c) the natural posture of the giant squid when swimming freely and interacting with the diver, its arms splayed.
Replaceable?	Irreplaceable as it depicts a historical event of which no free images exist.
Other information	The image is used here strictly for educational purposes. Original copyright for this image belongs to Mizuhashi Fisherina, Toyama.
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List of giant squid specimens and sightings (2001–2014)