A New Zealand diver finds himself in a struggle underwater with an octopus that sprang out of the seaweed.
A New Zealand diver found himself struggling with a wild octopus while trying to record it with his underwater digital camera. Victor was trying to capture the wild octopus below some seaweed when the octopus suddenly pounced onto him with its tentacles wrapped around his wrists.
Victor panicked at first as he thought that the octopus was trying to make a meal out of him. Soon Victor realized that octopus was just trying to grab the shiny digital camera from his hands. The octopus did manage to pry the digital camera from Victor’s hands and made a run with it. The diver gave chase for about 5 minutes before catching up with the “octothief”.
Victor used a spear gun to distract the octopus which it immediately grabbed as well. The diver somehow managed to retrieve his digital camera from the octopus mouth. Now the octopus decided not to let go of its new fascination, the spear gun. Victor ended up swimming around with octopus wrapped around his spear gun for while.
Victor in the end acknowledged that the octopus was just curious. The incident was not life threatening but in fact a very humorous and memorable one. The best thing of all, the digital camera was still recording when the whole ordeal was happening. Check the video below.
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That had to be hair-raising, I’m glad the diver was ok and I’m sure he probably took the fear factor up a notch. Ha ha ha 
wow, that’s a good one! Since when an octopus so clever and curious? I think the octopus just wanted to borrow the camera to take a look but Victor mistaken, thought it wanted to steal it, LOL. Very interesting, Sharif, I enjoyed the write and the video.
I think the octopus was very shock that a light came from the camera.
Bloody kiwis 
I dunno .. they’re all a bunch of sheep dags mate .. hehehe ~ very amusing Sharif
It’s creepy, but cute
a very enjoyable read. i’m really glad that neither party were harmed and in any case, it is hard to imagine a small octopus attacking a grown up man. it reminds me of monty python. very funny and beautifully written. thanks for the share.
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