Grabbed by Humboldt Squids for Science (1991)

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Accompanying video can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fkl312lldQ

The flashing skin color changes alone are pretty incredible.

It's surprising that it comes across as so intimidating and disorienting, even on video. It's really a powerful advertisement of offensive aggression in that example.

The mind recoils in confusion, and begs for the flashing to abate. It's punishingly relentless.

A "decompression meter"? I've been diving for 30 years and have never heard of that. I did a search and apparently, this vintage machine was the precursor to the modern dive computer.

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