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For four years, Clyde Roper has sailed the globe in search of one very special sea monster. The monster is a giant squid 20 metres long, weighing half a tonne, with eyes the size of dinner plates. Roper is a world-renowned squid specialist with the Smithsonian Institution’s Department of Invertebrate Biology, but he’s yet to see a live giant squid. Twice he has led a team to a likely spot off New Zealand’s South Island, but despite state-of-the-art submersibles and smart techniques, Architeuthis has been conspicuous by its absence. Jonathan Knight wondered if Roper was afraid of turning into…