When it comes to cinematography, a giant pacific octopus that borrowed a two -diver camera wins a solid “10 of 10”.
Submarine cameraman John Roney said that he and his diving partner for a long time, Chris Mullen, came out on August 5 Nanoose Bay on the east side of Vancouver Island, a renowned place for a large octopus.
Roney said they met several, but an octopus “particularly big” – As large as three meters wide, arm to the arm – it caught your attention.
He was resting on a shelf, but immediately showed interest in them after they passed, he said.
“He approached us directly, jumped and explored my camera, and then I released my camera and let it have it for a couple of minutes,” Roney said.
The resulting video was a fascinating exhibition of the Pink belly of the creature, its arms covered with advanced sucks like an umbrella on the camera.
“I was carrying the camera for a moment, pointing to a wall and those things. I was filming on its own,” Roney laughed, “he even had the kindness of using his fools to turn it off after (the camera) was working for about three minutes.”
Roney, an underwater cameraman based on the island of Vancouver who has been working as a documentary company for many years, said that the animal’s camera work was excellent.
“Ten of 10 underwater cameraman for octopus,” Roney said. “Honestly, the best footage of an octopus network that I have seen a octopus.”
“Better than me from afar,” Mullen joked.
Later, Roney published the video online, giving a loan to Octopus.
The footage has received thousands of I like it and comments.
After the animal ended with the chamber, it jumped to the arms around it and the sucks of its mask.
Roney said he was able to capture the “hug.”
Instead of being aggressive, the octopus seemed curious, using his offspring to explore his surroundings, Roney said.
“And so you could see that he clung to him, but he wasn’t grabbing him,” Roney said. “Chris seemed to be having a good time.”
“It was a very gentle hug,” Mullen recalled about the nearby match. “This is what I expected, this was what I wanted.”
Roney said he has made around 1,500 dives over the years, but that he has only had two nearby interactions with an octopus.
Pacific giant octopuses are fascinating and interactive animals, and every time he meets one, he can’t have enough of them, Roney said.
The octopus is very intelligent, says the biologist
The marine biologist born in Victoria, Jennifer Math, has seen the video and said that the octopus was not taking deliberately even though her work was beautiful.
Mather, an octopus expert from the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, said that when an octopus finds something interesting and potentially edible, he will pick it up and put it under the arm network, which is exactly what is seen in the video.
“And the person who had the camera, of course, had photos because the camera was still working. But it has nothing to do with the octopus taking selfies. I’m sorry,” Math said.
Mathher said animals are very intelligent in other ways, comparing their personalities with cats.
In most situations, when they see the divers who crowded around them, they will sneak or hide, but an underwater camera with bright fresh lights could be quite interesting for them, making them ask what they can do with it.
“Because the octopuses play, not the social game, but the game of objects,” Math said.
Roney said the community’s response to video has been incredible.
“You really see that people are fascinated by these animals because they are very intelligent and are very curious, and they are also so from another world. They are very different from anything you would see on land,” he said.
“And it makes me happy to see people see our local marine life here.”
