‘One word: epic’: B.C. diver records incredible close encounter with octopus
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Over 12 years Andrea Humphreys has logged about 675 dives, but in all that time nothing has come close to the experience she had last weekend with an enthusiastic octopus.
“One word: epic.”
That’s how a Vancouver Island scuba driver is describing a recent eight-apendaged underwater encounter.
Andrea Humphreys is a school teacher in the Campbell River area, and a diver with plenty of experience. Over 12 years she’s logged about 675 plunges, but in all that time she’s never seen anything like what she captured on video last week.
Humphreys and a group of divers had set out to take a friend from Newfoundland, who had never seen an octopus, out to try and view one of the cephalopods near Campbell River’s Argonaut Wharf.
“Within probably two minutes, there’s an octopus sitting there in the kelp right in the open … pretty much unheard of in the daytime,” she told Global News.
“Then the octopus climbed on this guy that had never seen an octopus before and was climbing all over his face and his mask.”
That alone would have been a thrill for the group, but things didn’t stop there.
The creature, which Humphreys identified as a giant Pacific octopus, seemed to lose interest and climbed off her friend — and took a shine to Humphreys.
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