Dangerous squid

I found Charles Paxton’s Forum piece on giant cephalopods [ FT362:56-57] very interesting. Part of the problem is that attacks by giant cephalopods on craft at sea have persisted in fiction, and hence the popular imagination, into modern times. Examples extend from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under

the Sea (1870) to the current TV ad for Captain Birdseye’s fish fingers. Nick Warren Pinner, Middlesex