B.C. diver shakes a leg with giant Pacific octopus
..."I've been diving for 12 years. I have never had that... Humphreys, who has done more than 675 dives around the world...describes her interaction with the octopus as the experience of a lifetime.
On Oct. 15, Humphreys and two other locals were with a fifth diver who had never seen an octopus on a dive.
"So, our goal was to find that person an octopus and we geared up and got in the water. And within three minutes, I found this octopus that was just sitting there, out in the open," said Humphreys.
Humphreys and her friends tried to give the octopus some space while they snapped photos. She estimated its size at more than three meters, tentacle to tentacle, with a body bigger than a basketball.
But the octopus had other ideas.
It started crawling towards Humphreys' friend who had never before seen an octopus, then it greeted Humphreys with its body and tentacles fully engulfing her camera.
"Its tentacles were reaching through the camera to feel my face and then at some point, it had crawled on my body, on my hips, and was giving me a hug," she said.
"And it had tentacles up and around my mouth and it was sucking on my lip, which is the only exposed part of my body," said Humphreys, who captured the whole interaction on video...
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B28I872jZkw[/ame]
I'll never think of calamari the same way again...On Oct. 15, Humphreys and two other locals were with a fifth diver who had never seen an octopus on a dive.
"So, our goal was to find that person an octopus and we geared up and got in the water. And within three minutes, I found this octopus that was just sitting there, out in the open," said Humphreys.
Humphreys and her friends tried to give the octopus some space while they snapped photos. She estimated its size at more than three meters, tentacle to tentacle, with a body bigger than a basketball.
But the octopus had other ideas.
It started crawling towards Humphreys' friend who had never before seen an octopus, then it greeted Humphreys with its body and tentacles fully engulfing her camera.
"Its tentacles were reaching through the camera to feel my face and then at some point, it had crawled on my body, on my hips, and was giving me a hug," she said.
"And it had tentacles up and around my mouth and it was sucking on my lip, which is the only exposed part of my body," said Humphreys, who captured the whole interaction on video...
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B28I872jZkw[/ame]
Well, he does now!
