the best style of Jules Verne Now that my novel is published adventures and science
SQUID IN SEARCH OF THE ABYSS (
Grupo Planeta, Colombia), about how a group of children accompanying a scientist to the ocean floor to meet the colossal squid terrifying
(
Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), I get to review the incredible true adventure of biologists whose work I relied to present this magnificent creature.
A being from the depths to which the word "sea monster" is really applicable, (the style of Jules Verne) colossal squid could grow to 12 or 14 meters but no one has ever seen one alive in his natural environment. The only thing was, it was a subadult female that was dying at the surface between the nets of a fisherman Antarctic toothfish.
write the novel I started thinking about exposing the squid as being brutal, a killing machine, with tentacles filled with hooks that move in all directions, and in the center of the head, a large horny beak parrot.
Yet
as writing and learning about this spectacular mollusk, something happened: I fell in love. Mesonychoteuthis have blue blood, live more than 1.000 meters deep, has three hearts and the biggest eye ever in any animal, living or extinct (the size of a human head). And if you were to ask you this squid rings would bring rounds the size of a tractor wheel. But you would like. Would know of urine, because their tissues are full ammonia.
Coming face to face in the depths, the golden dream of teutólogo (expert on cephalopods) New Zealand
Steve O'Shea, has to be a formidable show, as well as their smaller cousins \u200b\u200bof 10 centimeters should Mesonychoteuthis be bioluminescent. I imagine him lighting the light organs of mantle waves traveling furiously all over his body, changing from red to yellow to white, blue, deep red, shimmering, vibrating under the nerve impulses that gives its giant brain, more largest of all mollusks.
The sea still retains its mysteries. For me,
Mesonychoteuthis is one of the most fabulous. A creature that lives outside our view and our consciousness, in the basement of the planet, harsh pressures in numbers that we can not imagine. His strength and supremacy has led us to compare this way of life so unfamiliar with an alien. And I think that is something like:
something coming from another world that time forgot. This world we call "the abyss", and almost completely unknown.