The fresh find did not give rise to a calamari feast, Reid says. “They taste very bad, and the meat has a strong ammonia smell. Ammonia gives the squid a lower density than seawater, which gives it a natural buoyancy so that it does not have to constantly lose energy swimming.”
Although the animals taste very bad to humans, sharks love them. While filming his find, McGlashan was joined by an eight-foot-long blue shark that was in the mood for ammoniacalamari. “He immediately sank his teeth into the squid and didn’t give a damn about being right next to us. He took large chunks out of the carcass in a single bite,” says McGlashan. “It shows that not much is lost in nature. Everything is recycled in one way or another.”
They taste very bad, and the meat has a strong ammonia smell
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