Octopus takes my video camera

Scuba diving in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, US, a meet with a Giant Pacific Octopus. After a bit of close-up video he (yes it was a "he") opens his mantle and goes over my camera system and takes it. Lights on, video rolling. I've cut down the video of his underside from about 3 min to 30 sec. I then peel him off and off me, and take a self-portrait (note rebreather) in the process. Never dangerous or threatening, just fun. I was running out of bottom him and headed to surface; he followed us (3 of us in team) up to 15 ft, grabbing at fins, then headed back down and we went up.

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• washington
• scuba
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• marine
• sea
• ocean
• water
• san juan
• fish
• fun
• danger
• attack

[spalmerism]

I dont think he liked the light lol