Tsunemi Kubodera

is a Japanese zoologist with the National Museum of Nature and Science. On September 30, 2004, Kubodera and his team became the first people to ''photograph'' a live giant squid in its natural habitat. Two years later, on December 4, 2006, he also managed to successfully ''film'' a live adult giant squid for the first time ever. On July 10, 2012, Kubodera, together with Steve O'Shea and Edith Widder, became the first to ''film'' a live giant squid ''in its natural habitat'' from a submersible off the Bonin Islands.

In addition to these firsts involving the giant squid, in 2005, Kubodera also became the first to film the Dana octopus squid (''Taningia danae'') in its natural habitat. Provided by Wikipedia