the little local paper had a photo on the cover this week of a 25 foot squid that washed up alive on the beach at redondo last week.

I would like to see a picture of that one.

hey bri24-

its in the hiline times front page last week. the squid is red and a little white. they say that it was still alive and got pushed back out. its a cool photo of it though. ill check and see if they have it online and post it if they do

cool thx,chappy.

here is the article..... I could not get the upload cednter to work to put up the pic


The phone rang at 6 ayem one day last week. It was Al Sasonoff, Highline’s most famous architect and daily beachcomber, urging me to get up and go see a huge creature he found while walking the beach at Three Tree Point.


I dressed in a rush and grabbed my camera and drove to his house. Al was in the yard and climbed into the car and away we went. He was animated and excited about his discovery of the world’s largest sea monster, some sort of giant squid.


I noticed immediately that he stank to high heaven. I shouted, “Sasonoff, you don’t smell very good.”


He said, “I know. I know. I tried to pick the thing up but one of his arms broke off.”


When we got to where he found it, the tide was going out and the huge beastie was gone. Washed to sea again or else the world’s largest seagull carried him off.


I took a picture of our hero explaining what he had discovered to a neighbor lady passing by with her dog.


So I never did see the Jules Verne monster, but at least I did get a chance to smell him.

Later Al showed me a picture of the amazing invertebrate that was taken by Jim Newsom, a neighbor of his who saw it.
Jim said he felt it was still alive and pushed it back out to sea. That explains why Al and I could not find it when he went back to look.

Here is the remarkable story as related by Alexander Sasonoff, our famous local architect:
On my daily early morning stroll along the north beach at Three Tree Point, I discovered what appeared at first to be a large ball of kelp. On closer examination I found that it was the remains of a Giant Squid.
It was obviously very dead as it rolled in the backwash of waves that were being generated by a strong North wind.


It was a rusty orange color and the paddle-like flukes were as large as dinner plates. The giant body was about seven feet long, the tentacles were broken off about two feet out from the body and at that point were about as big in diameter as a two inch pipe.


When it was alive, the overall length was probably 20 to 25 feet. I tried to move it farther up the beach so I could come back and take a picture of it, but it was so heavy I could not budge it.


What I could see must have weighed 200 pounds and smelled pretty bad. With all its tentacles, it must have weighed 400 pounds.


I went back to my house and called Jerry Robinson and he and I went back to get pictures but, alas, the tide had taken it back to sea.


I went to my computer and pulled up all kinds of information on these huge creatures. And this is also amazing. I am an architect, and the scientific name is Architeuthis Dux.


The largest squid on record is 591/2 feet and weighed 2,000 pounds.


They are found all over the world, but no mention was made of any found in Puget Sound. It is the world’s largest invertebrate, and probably died in the Pacific and was carried here by the tidal currents.

A Great White at Pt. Defiance and now a Giant Squid.

Looks like you all better quit fishing in the S. Sound,until you get a .50cal mounted on the bow of your boat. I mounted one on the bow of my boat after the GW sighting. As an added bonus, The lines at the launch just seem to disapear when I show up.