Giant squid are distributed in all the oceans of the world,
usually in association with continental and island slopes.
Concentrations of species found range from the North Atlantic
Ocean, especially Newfoundland, Norway, northern British Isles
and the oceanic islands of the Azores and Madeira; the South
Atlantic in southern African waters; the North Pacific around
Japan, and the southwestern Pacific around New Zealand and
Australia; circumglobal in the Southern Ocean. Specimens are
rare from tropical and high polar latitudes.(Forch 1998) No one
really knows where giant squid live because no one has seen one
alive in its natural habitat. Only recent research has indicated
where this habitat might be. It is in the deep sea, perhaps
between 200 and 1000 meters in depth, and it is possibly in
association with the bottom of the sea rather than in mid-water.
On the other hand, specimens that have been captured in nets
sometimes come from mid-water. Work done by Dr. Ole Brix, of the
University of Bergen, indicated t