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In this episode of Beast Legends:
The team investigates a giant
see monster said to attack ships.
I've never seen anything
like that on any other animal.
A creature with incredible
intelligence and strength.
That's what
I'm talking about.
A creature fully
loaded with weapons.
This thing is going to be
the most fierce beast
that I think we'll build.
Absolutely insane.
The team must face
their fears
As they search for
the source of the Kraken.
That's absolutely
enormous.
Stories of
terrifying monsters
are told
the world over.
Some are myths
but others are
believed to be real.
Now a team of investigators
will track down clues
and find evidence for
the beast behind the legend.
The quest,
to build the creature,
bring it to life
and unleash
on the modern world.
Steve Leonard is
in the North Pacific,
about to go diving
for a giant sea creature
that may hold clues
to the Kraken.
This has very,
very powerful suckers.
That's crazy.
The rest of the team
are at the Beast Lab,
searching for the origins
of the legend.
This thing has
to be wicked,
something that would just
scare the living crap
out of you when you see it.
We could do that.
Let's have a look at the legend.
Deep in the dark depths
of distant seas,
a predator lurks,
that strikes fear into
the hearts of mariners.
A vast writhing
mass of muscle,
rising from the waves
to tower above their masts,
mesmerizing men
with its piercing gaze
and snapping ships
with powerful limbs,
dragging sailors and ships
to a watery doom,
the Kraken.
This story has
inspired the team
to imagine what
this beast might be
and bring it
to virtual life.
So here's what we know
about the Kraken.
So it's this huge,
multi-armed creature
that could bring down ships.
The first versions that were
written down were in the 1500s.
Well, I mean, these are our
basic three culprits here:
the giant squid,
colossal squid
and the giant
Pacific octopus.
So squid and octopuses
are cephalopods.
It's a lineage of animals
that's been around
for 500 million years,
way, way older than
the origin of mammals on land.
They're the biggest multi-armed
animals in the world's oceans.
Right, well, I think
the best thing to do
to make this Kraken
really wicked
is if we take the best
of those three
and make like
a super beast.
I mean this is the Kraken.
It's not a squid
and it's not an octopus.
Absolutely.
The giant Pacific octopus
is going to be ourest bet.
I mean, Steve's going
to have a reasonable chance
of finding one of those.
These two, it's going
to be virtually impossible.
The best place to find
a giant Pacific octopus
is off the coast
of Vancouver Island, Canada.
My job is to find one,
catch it,
and get it onboard our
boat for a close-up look.
I want to see what
features of this octopus
could inspire a Kraken.
I've come to Canada
to team up with Jim Cosgrove
and also Kevin Van Clemput.
These two guys know
more than anyone
about the giant
Pacific octopus.
Jim Cosgrove is a renowned
octopus researcher.
He's been tracking and catching
them for thirty years.
if you ever found, you know,
a 100' Kraken that had the
strength that an octopus has,
that would just be an
absolutely fearsome beast.
Yeah, that's great.
That's just what we need.
Even with the expert help,
this will be tough.
Octopuses are notoriously
crafty and elusive.
While we're dealing
with this octopus,
he may attach very
firmly to our masks
Yeah. And he may
want to remove them.
Okay.
Bear in mind he hasn't
got vengeance
or killing in mind initially.
No. "Initially."
Yeah, okay.
I'm not so keen on icy water,
but octopuses love it.
They hang out in dens
on the ocean floor,
in rocky crevasses
like this.
Then they wait for
just the right moment
to pounce on their prey.
These are incredibly
smart predators.
I can see
the suckers.
There's definitely
one in there.
Where did he go?
Okay, found it.
Jim, can you get it?
How heavy do you
think this one is?
I would guess this is
probably 20 kilos or better.
But this is nowhere near
as big as they get.
Oh, no, no,
they get bigger,
up into 150 kilos.
Yeah.
Oh, my hat,
that is amazing.
Isn't he
a beautiful animal?
That is spectacular.
Yeah.
We've just got
to watch him,
because he's
Yeah, he will find his way out.
Yeah, he's going to look
for an exit and
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look, he's really
hanging onto the
He's lifting that mat up.
Yeah.
And that's exactly how he would
take apart a ship, the same way.
He would grab onto the side of
the ship and then pull it apart.
They're just all muscle by
the sounds of things, you know?
Yeah.
Muscle and a brain.
Come and put your
hands on him right now
and just feel the flexing
of the muscle.
You put your hands
where mine are.
Oh, yeah.
And put a little bit of squeeze on him.
Yeah.
And you can feel his muscles
flexing in underneath there.
Absolutely, yeah.
And then all these
suckers, you know,
acting like you say, independently.
Yeah.
Oh, look at the size
of them there as well.
Yeah, about 1/3
of the way down the arms
you've got
the great big suckers,
and each one of those suckers
can hold about 35 lb.
So he's got power.
Excellent.
He's getting shy.
It's time to get this bad
boy back in the ocean.
But the guy is stubborn.
He's clamped his suckers
right onto the tank
and will not budge.
It wobbles but you can
just feel it's like
It's like a tree.
Yeah, a tree bends, yeah,
but you're not going to
pull it up by its roots.
There he goes.
Now he's starting to move.
There we go.
Yeah.
There we go. He's in.
Yeah, you know, if he
didn't decide to let go
You're not going to pull him off.
No.
It's not a big stretch
for our Kraken
to do this
to a ship, then?
No.
Brilliant. Just what we need.
Yeah.
We know from the legend
that the Kraken is capable
of taking down tall ships
weighing 200 tons.
So it has to be
incredibly strong.
It could definitely use
the muscular arms
and sucker strength
of a giant Pacific.
In fact, the first ever
mention of a Kraken,
from 18th-century Norway,
sounds just like
an oversized octopus:
a speckled brown animal
with a broad head
and arms that
fluctuate like seaweed.
I think an octopus
is a good place to start.
We definitely need
something more aggressive.
You know, I think we need
something that will make it
sharper and more
menacing looking.
Spikes.
Spikes, you know.
Lots and lots of spikes.
I mean, spikes are
you know, there's
nothing like this
in the natural world.
You don't need all
these spikes.
This looks like something
out of a comic book.
The thing is, I really want
it to be more dangerous.
Well, we can
I mean we can make
it more fierce,
but, I mean, let's get
our inspiration
from the natural world.
I mean, there's no reason
to make stuff up.
I think they're both right.
The Kraken needs
to be fiercer,
but the natural world
has plenty of that.
Kathryn is headed to France
to meet a guy who
had a terrifying encounter
in 2003
by a Kraken-like beast.
So I'm in Brest, France,
in the North Atlantic,
which is the right place
to be for the Kraken legend,
since this is where
it all started.
And I'm here to talk
to a world-famous sailor
named Didier Ragot.
So you've been sailing
your whole life?
So it was attached
to the boat?
Not on the hull of the
boat but on the rudder.
Attached to the rudder
of the boat?
That's extraordinary.
What was it?
I'm wondering if what you
saw would be big enough
to pull down
a small boat.
Yeah.
Small boat?
Yeah.
This eyewitness account of a
giant squid is extremely rare.
These beasts are almost
never seen alive.
And according to Didier,
they might be strong
enough to pull over a boat.
Sounds like we need to add some
squid features to our Kraken.
That's crazy.
Yeah, I mean,
what I like about that
is that it went
after the boat.
That shows a lot
of aggression.
That's what we need
in our Kraken.
Our Kraken is about to get
one vicious makeover,
complete with
the gnarliest weapons ever.
We're trying
to build a Kraken,
the biggest sea
monster in history.
So far it's looking
a lot like an octopus.
But thanks to a sailing
champion's recent encounter,
we're about to turn our
attention to the squid.
So we basically
have no footage
of a giant squid
actually hunting.
What I can show you is some
footage of a Humboldt squid.
These guys are actually
very aggressive.
They have attacked
divers before.
They're attacking
the camera right now, I think.
Yeah.
Oh, that's cool.
And you can see they've got
these amazing fins
near the back
that propel them
forward and backward.
Very
They're very fast.
So I think we'll have to have
the fins in there.
And that will make
it more agile, yeah?
It's almost like
a torpedo, you know?
Yeah.
All right, I'm going
to add the squid fins,
but I'm going to keep
the octopus arms
just 'cause they
look stronger.
Pound for pound, octopus arms
are stronger than squid arms.
They have to be.
They're making their living
on the ocean floor.
They're hoisting up rocks
to make their dens.
Whereas squid only use
their arms to catch prey
and to put it
in their mouth.
All right, guys,
now that I've added the fin,
here's what it's going to kind
of look like in the beast movie.
Awesome.
I like the way you've combined
and morphed the squid head
with the octopus head,
you know?
A bit of the smarts
and the speed at the same time.
It still doesn't
look mean enouououough, though.
I mean, this thing
has to be so scary
it's going to scare
the living crap
out of a drunken sailor.
Well, if you want
bigger and badder,
I know where
you need to go:
New Zealand.
You and Steve need
to get to Wellington.
That's where you'll find
the biggest, scariest,
baddest colossal squid
ever captured.
This colossal squid that
Francis and I are going to see
was caught by accident
in a fisherman's net.
Super sweetness!
It's dead now, of course.
But even a dead
colossal squid
is worth its
weight in gold.
No one's ever
studied one alive.
So little is known about it,
about where they live,
what they do,
what they eat.
So much of the biology
is missing,
because they live at tremendous
depths for most of the time.
And we only get glimpses
of dead ones
or bits of ones
and things like that.
The Museum of New Zealand
has the world's only footage
of a colossal squid when
it was still alive.
Oh, my God, you see it's
actually grabbing hold here.
Look at that!
These fishermen
caught it in 2007
in the Ross
Sea in Antarctic!.
They took this video
just before it died.
Oh, my God!
That's it. That's no wonder
they call them colossal.
The body is now on display
here at the museum.
It's 14' long
and weighs an incredible
The guy who studied it
most is Steve O'Shea,
an authority
on all things squid.
This is one seriously
evil monster.
It's not down there
sipping cups of plankton.
This is only half grown.
This is half grown?
This is only half
grown, yeah.
And we don't know what
the male looks like.
And I reckon
this is a female.
I reckon the male is even
more aggressive than this.
Nobody's ever seen
one of these hunt.
That's my dream.
I know. I know.
Yeah, I got ideas.
At the base of each one
of those tentacles
there is a series
of suckers and knobs.
So that's these
feeding ones here?
Those are the feeding ones.
And it's just going
to snake those at you
like a pair of anacondas.
And then, wham, before you
even know it, it's got you.
And then it'll pull
you back in.
Squid have killer weapons
two long tentacles that
lash out and grab prey
at lightning-quick speed.
Oh, my goodness.
That's high-speed
footage
showing a long-finned
squid in action.
Because that's
the only way you're ever
going to actually see it,
because it is that fast.
A well choreographed
dance of death.
Exactly.
That's right!
Definitely, our Kraken will need
these feeding tentacles.
Absolutely.
Going to be much
more in line
with the behavior
of this Kraken
to have these
predatory tentacles.
This is probably the last thing
that any prey would see.
Sucked into its underside.
Yeah.
Wow.
Wicked.
All right, so this is
what it might look like
when I bring
it to life.
That's wicked.
How thick is
the squid's skin?
Because in terms of
the legend of the Kraken,
it can take down a tall ship
and just bring it down.
Now, I know this doesn't make
sense realistically.
You're not going
to say armor, are you?
I'm going to say armor.
You're going to say armor.
Don't say armor.
The thing is
No, no, no, no.
Here's the thing, all right?
Here's the thing.
Yeah, no.
Should we give it
lasers as well?
No, but okay,
here's the thing, right?
I think adding something
to the tentacle
that will make it
more powerful
will make a difference between
a Kraken and a colossal squid.
What I would say is
that we don't need to.
We don't
Evolution has come up
with a great design
for taking down
live prey.
Maybe armor is what's
throwing you guys.
Think of it like
the scales of a snake.
I just want those
damn armors, Steve.
You really want armor,
don't you?
I really want the armor.
I know you want armor but
Because, you know
I want it to be
I want it to be a
squid relative,
because it looks like a squid,
it behaves like a squid,
you know, and, therefore,
it should be
It is a squid relative.
Yes.
With armor.
Right, we may have to
arm-wrestle over this.
I kind of like where
Francis is going here.
I don't.
I'm going to put
armor on him.
I'm going to try it.
I can't believe
you're doing this.
Oh, come on.
I like it.
No, that's
ridiculous.
I mean, the whole point
is that they've got to be
pliable, flexible, fast.
No, and you're right, though.
They have to be really
stretchy, don't they?
Yeah, I mean it's just
not going to work.
No, look, let's just
leave the armor off.
I mean, maybe we can make it big
or fierce in other ways,
but let's leave
the armor off.
Armour aside, what made
the Kraken so terrifying
was its incredible
size and strength.
As a Norwegian bishop
wrote in 1755,
the Kraken's arms
reached as high
as the mast of
a mid-sized vessel.
We need to find a tall ship,
get out on the water,
and figure out how our Kraken
would take it down.
Have you ever been on
a boat in water doing this?
Yeah.
Good. Yeah? Were you sick?
No. Then I don't think
you'll get seasick.
You should be fine.
Easy for him to say.
He can swim.
I can't, not a single stroke.
Deep water?
My absolute worst nightmare.
Steve and I are on
the north-eastern tip
of New Zealand where we found
just the thing
to help us figure out
how our Kraken
takes down a boat.
The Soren Larsen,
it's about the same size
as the tall ships that
sailed in Scandinavia
back in
the 18th century.
A couple hundred
years ago,
sailors would have lived
in boats just like this
for months on end.
I have no idea
how they did it.
Battling storms, swells,
fearing death
by tentacle.
I'm so in the wrong place.
Yeah, we'll see.
I can't really swim.
Okay, this will be
a big adventure then.
Yeah, it is.
This ship is 300 tons
of solid oak.
Our Kraken has to be truly
massive to sink it.
Oh, that is awesome.
That's amazing.
They're beautiful,
aren't they?
That's Kraken prey.
It's too small for them.
That's like a
A bite-size
appetizer.
There's plenty
of prey out there:
large fin whales,
*** whales, blue whales.
It could live off whales.
Yeah.
With all those tasty
meals out there,
why would a Kraken
go after a ship,
which is basically
a bowl of wood?
It makes no
sense to me.
Okay, guys, the plan is
to get under the boat
and have a good
look at it.
What we need to do is see
the Kraken-eye view of its prey,
basically, this boat.
You know, it's going to
attack it for some reason.
Can you see
the bottom of the ocean?
Over.
If you look sideways down
there, you can't see anything.
You look up;
you do get silhouettes.
But it was enough to just
get a bit of the silhouette
of the boat or not even?
You can see a big lump.
But in many ways
that's interesting,
because you can't
tell it's a boat.
Yeah.
I think this is a case
of mistaken identity.
Maybe the Kraken thinks
this boat is a whale.
If the silhouette
looks like a whale,
similar to how when sharks are
underwater and they see surfers,
they think it's
a seal, right?
So, if a Kraken thinks it's
a whale and it eats whale,
how huge is this thing?
The Kraken could reach
to the top of the tallest mast.
That is ridiculously high.
That's pretty high, eh?
It's the fact that it
moves so much, I think,
will be
the biggest thing.
One minute you're
over the boat;
the next minute you're over the sea.
Exactly.
The aspect of falling
and drowning and
This is like
every phobia
all rolled into one.
You got my fear of drowning
'cause I can't swim.
Okay.
And then you got
my fear of heights.
You've got a fear of heights as well?
Yeah.
If I'm going to draw
this beast in action,
I need to know what
it looks like from up there.
Drawing is all
about perspective.
So Steve and I have come up
with this totally insane plan.
We're going to haul
a long roll of fabric
to the top of the mast,
simulating what a tentacle
would look like.
That means I'm
going up there.
It's the least perfect
weather to do it in.
I'm sure it could
get a lot worse
but it could be
a lot more stable.
The ship's sailing
at about 11 miles an hour.
If I fall in,
it ain't stopping.
Basically, if I fall, I die.
How's it feeling, Francis?
Uh, pretty scary.
Now, you know what
to cling onto?
Like when you're just
climbing up,
it feels all right.
But when you
think about it
within context
of where you are,
that's when it sort
of all comes together,
the freakiness of the magnitude
of what we're doing.
This is what
I'm hooking on to?
Yes, yeah, absolutely, yes.
Francis and I are now 55' up,
about the sixth floor
of an office building.
We still have more
than 30' to go.
It's quite a view.
It's nice.
Only just got to
get up there now.
Oh, jeez.
This is the scariest thing
I've ever done.
Oh.
Man. I don't know
if I can do this.
I'm seven stories up
the main mast
of the Soren Larsen
and still climbing.
If I reach the top,
this will likely help
me figure out
how big and strong our Kraken
tentacles have to be.
That's if I don't
die first.
Oh,.
This is scary
as hell, dude.
I know that you're
used to this,
but this isn't my
bag of tea, you know?
No, I know
what you're saying.
This
This mast looks a lot
taer from up here
than it does down
there, doesn't it?
Oh, jeez.
Just stand up. Slip inside.
Were you in danger of having
too much fun at any point?
I was in danger of possibly
needing new pants.
Unbelievable,
I actually made it,
pants unsoiled, to 85',
as high as we can get.
It's another 13'
to the tip of the mast.
Time to raise our
cloth tentacle.
Oh, yeah!
Oh, that looks great.
Look at that!
Oh, I like it!
That is great!
That is perfect.
Oh, yeah!
If that was like
Kraken tentacles,
it's got to be
the scariest thing.
Yeah.
When you get the sense of the
scale of a ship from up here,
and you think of
something engulfing it
Now imagine like tentacles
of freaking Kraken
coming up this high.
That is ridiculous,
absolutely insane.
Now I have what I need to draw
the Kraken attacking the ship.
I know how long
the tentacles are
and how strong
the body has to be
to lift them
to the top of the mast.
This thing is going to be
the most fierce beast
that I think we'll build.
Absolutely insane.
It's sad saying goodbye
to the Soren Larsen,
but now that we have
the tentacles sorted,
we need to find dry land
and scale up the rest
of our beast.
We talked about
scale on the ship,
so we're going to apply
that hopefully on this beach.
Using colossal-squid
morphology,
I reckon the Kraken's
body should be
about the same length
as the tentacles.
These feeding tentacles,
if they're going to reach
the top of the mast,
that's 100'.
That makes the whole
beastie 200'.
Yeah.
Okay?
That looks about right.
So that's enormous.
Five, six, seven
Yeah, that sounds
pretty big.
Okay, so we're
going to have
to make this
a little
Just a little bit bigger.
A lot bigger.
All right.
Oh, my God.
Okay, this is
not even 200.
This is maybe halfway.
That's already
seriously creepy.
I'm at the head!
All right.
Well, let's do the fin.
Let's draw the eyes.
So the arms.
This would be 200' here.
Deeply unnerving?
Yeah.
That's impressive, right?
That's pretty big.
It wouldn't need
to even bite you.
It could just
swallow you.
Yeah.
That's absolutely enormous.
Our super-sized cephalopod
is a length
of five city buses.
Wow.
Look at the size
of those suckers.
Any one of them would just
engulf your entire body.
All right, so now
I've got to make
these massive Kraken arms move.
Mm-hmm.
You know, what's interesting,
if you look at the word
"cephalopod" and break it down,
it just means "head" and "foot."
The "head" part is just
about the intelligence.
But the feet or,
you know, the arms,
as we usually call them,
they're just directly
attached to the head.
And they can be doing
totally different things
all at the same time,
move independently.
And I think we need that
for our Kraken.
That is really
coming together.
Nice.
Too nice, I say.
The Kraken should
be all bad.
So Steve O'Shea
has gotten us
into an off-limits
research lab.
He swears the weaponry
we're about to see
will blow our minds.
Steve and I are
in a research lab
in Wellington,
New Zealand,
looking for some
wicked weapons
to add to our Kraken.
This giant squid
is the grossest 15' of carcass
I've ever seen.
I'm never eating
calamari again.
Here we go. Stuck in there,
we've got the beaks.
Now, you're just
looking at the tip.
There's a lot more beak.
Oh, that's pretty sharp.
Yeah, a lot more beak
hidden in behind there.
That is certainly capable
of a degree of protrusion.
But look what
you've got here.
Now this is getting
a bit meaner, do you think?
You like that?
Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah.
Now, that's from a fully
mature female, I'd say.
So it's got
the serrated ring.
Yeah.
Is that evil enough for you?
What about longer?
You want bigger and longer.
You want spikier.
Spikier, like teeth.
There we go.
Now a colossal squid,
its tentacles take evil
to a whole new level.
Look at that.
Yeah, thought you
might like that.
That's what
I'm talking about.
It feels almost
mechanical.
That's very strange.
I've never seen
anything like that
on any other
animal before.
That degree
of rotation is amazing.
That's going to stop
them snapping off.
Now, if I were to latch
that either side of you
Now struggle, struggle.
You like that?
Ah, it hurts!
Ugh!
I got like
Squid juice.
Squid juice on me.
But we need to make, obviously,
versions of these
much, much bigger.
Yeah.
Well, you've got to admit:
that is a fantastic,
fantastic specimen.
And what could
be more fantastic
than a Kraken-size
tentacle hook?
I want Mike to see just how
scary these hooks need to be.
So we're going
to build one to scale.
This is a workshop for making
movie special effects,
which is cool.
It's exactly what we need.
Hey.
Hey, are you Steve?
Hey, guys, yeah.
Hey.
Welcome to my nightmare.
Thank you.
We're making a monster.
What we'd like
to physically make today
is the weapons it's got.
Yeah.
And what we got a sense
of is the size and shape
and sort of just how
nasty they would look
on a full-size animal.
You were saying
it would be
It's only 10' in total.
So these bit here,
the hooks, were probably
going to be yea big.
You know, with like a
Okay, that's truly evil.
This is where, like, you find
out that I'm your father.
That's a wicked piece of
That's just like
one out of
Probably, you know,
you know,
in the finished beast.
There you go.
You're done.
Go and practice
maiming something.
Look at that.
That is absolutely barm.
I'm sorry, man.
I hope they fit in your van.
You'll hear about
this on the news.
See you, guys.
You know what?
You go ahead.
Yeah. There you go.
That looks like it's going
to come down on me.
I'm going on this side.
Sorry, but I just have to put
my killer hook to the test
and see how much
damage it can do,
something the esteemed
novelist Victor Hugo
contemplated
back in 1866.
The suckers on a Kraken's
tentacles, he wrote,
were cylindrical,
*** and livid.
They could pierce
more than an inch
of the flesh
of their prey.
Let's go.
So what kind of damage
could a Kraken hook do
to a wood boat?
This oak barrel is
the perfect stand-in.
Boats are
phenomenally strong.
Ah, this is exactly
the same construction method.
Nice seams.
Is it thicker than this, even?
Oh, way thicker.
Oh, then yeah, yeah.
All right.
Let's compare the damage.
Look, that's
the deepest we got.
Yeah, it's
It's nothing, is it?
So I think the Kraken is going
to use the3e hooks to hang on.
Yeah, just to hang on.
And then its sheer weight
And then bring it in
and then like bear-hug
crush it, you know?
Okay, bear-hug crush that.
Go for it!
Imagine it's really,
really strong, right?
Jt's made of muscle.
It's made
of the same things.
So what I think happens is
our Kraken grabs hold of it,
and it's the sheer weight
that it sinks it.
It can trash all the mast,
the rigging, the lines,
the wheelhouse, everything,
but it's not going to
It's not going
to damage the hull.
But it's going to drag
it under the water.
Yeah.
Grab on with hooks;
smother with tentacles.
Use the body weight
to drag the ship under.
Picture how disappointed
the Kraken would be
if there's nothing to eat
but a couple of bony sailors.
If the Kraken's anything
like a colossal squid,
it has to live
in really deep water,
and it needs plenty
of food to sustain itself.
I'm thinking it
should live somewhere
like the Kaikoura Canyon
just off the coast
of the South Island.
The canyon is part
of a massive trench
that stretches
nearly 1,000 miles
and connects to one
of the deepest spots on earth.
It's dark. It's deep.
It's dangerous.
And right where
we're headed.
Francis and I have just
reached the Kaikoura Canyon
in New Zealand,
where we hope to find
the Kraken's perfect meal.
These waters are
an all-you-can-eat
pile-up-the-plate
seafood buffet.
These are fur seals
but they're like a sea lion.
But the reason they're here
in the first place
and the reason there's so much
kelp and everything else
is because this
is such a rich sea.
And there's plenty
more animal species
farther out
in the canyon.
The strong currents make it way
too dangerous for diving,
so the best way
to see the sea life,
the food our
Kraken might eat,
is from the air.
All right, here we go.
Let's roll.
Woo.
Less than a mile offshore,
the canyon drops down
to a whopping 2,600'.
The currents push nutrient-rich
water up against the wall,
attracting fish,
which bring in bigger animals
like dolphins.
Oh, wow, look at that.
I mean, this would be
like equivalent
to a shrimp platter
for a Kraken.
At the top of the food chain
is the world's
largest carnivore,
the *** whale.
Oh, beautiful.
Oh, wow, look at that.
And what it's doing
is re-oxygenating.
nutes of doing this,
he's going to dive away
and be gone for
about 45 minutes, average.
But the longest
recorded dive out here
is 2 hours
and 17 minutes.
Two hours and 17 minutes?
Yeah.
That's mental.
They're quite capable
of diving up to 2,000 m.
high fat, high cal,
just what a Kraken needs
to get through a day.
He's diving. There you go.
Watch his tail now, Francis.
There it goes, classic.
Look at that.
That's absolutely gorgeous.
Okay, guys, this is where we're
going to make our Kraken live.
We want it to live
in deep water
with lots of things
for it to feed on.
The *** whale can devour
giant and colossal squid.
We knoĆ³this from
the scars on their bodies
and the beaks
in their stomachs.
But one-on-one
against a Kraken,
my money is on
the Kraken.
Now that we've
figured out
where our Kraken lives
and what it eats,
we can put the finishing
touches on our beast.
So it's over and out
from New Zealand.
We've got a beast
movie to watch.
Let's take a peek
at this thing.
Oh!
That's awesome.
Oh, that is
so cool!
The key to building
this beast?
Figuring out how a sea monster
could take down a tall ship.
By giving our Kraken
the intellect
and arms of an octopus,
the vicious weaponry
and tentacles of a squid,
all blown up
to gargantuan size,
we've got ourselves
a beast legend.