{"id":109947,"date":"2025-09-01T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109947\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:00:07","slug":"octopus-playing-with-divers-grabs-the-camera-and-takes-underwater-selfie-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109947\/","title":{"rendered":"Octopus Playing With Divers Grabs the Camera and Takes Underwater Selfie (WATCH)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Octopus hugs diver and plays with camera \u2013 SWNS \/ Chris Mullen<\/p>\n

Two stunned divers have spoken about the \u2018crazy\u2019 moment the world\u2019s largest species of octopus came out to play with them before taking a selfie.<\/p>\n

35-year-old Canadian Chris Mullen was scuba diving off the coast of his hometown of Vancouver Island with his friend John Roney when they encountered a Giant Pacific octopus.<\/p>\n

While nearing the end of their dive in early August, the curious cephalopod came out from underneath a rock and stretched out its arms to take hold of John\u2019s camera and become a videographer itself.<\/p>\n

\u201c(It was) carrying around my camera for about five minutes,\u201d John told CBC news. Then suddenly, it \u201cwas jumping over to give Chris a big hug.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris, who has been diving since 2015, told SWNS news: \u201cWe originally saw it on our way out, we passed it at the beginning of the dive, and took a couple of pictures when it was underneath a rock.<\/p>\n

\u201c30 minutes later, we passed back on the way home and it stretches quite far from where it was to grab hold of the camera. It really went out of its way to get hold of John and his camera.\u201d (See the video at the bottom\u2026)<\/p>\n

\"\"Giant Pacific Octopus Plays With Dive Camera \u2013 SWNS \/ Chris Mullen<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to give them space, but as I tried to swim away, it dropped the camera and started moving towards where I was going to\u2014effectively following me.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt briefly stopped to interact with another octopus, and then saw me up higher filming it, and it made a beeline right for me and jumped on me next.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was wild,\u201d recalled Chris. \u201cIt was crazy what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video of the encounter off Canada\u2019s western coast has racked up thousands of views on Chris\u2019s Instagram page.<\/p>\n

Fellow diver John added, \u201cThe moments where you see these animals, where they\u2019re choosing to have this interaction and controlling the interaction, willingly participating in it, it really displays in the intelligence of these animals.<\/p>\n

SO CUTE! Watch Little Octopus Demand Endless Attention From Aquarium Worker Who Captures it All on Video<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"A Giant Pacific Octopus encounter off coast of western Canada \u2013 by Chris Mullen \/ SWNS<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the camera was still rolling it gave us this really unique look at the underside of their suckers.<\/p>\n

\u201cChris has got same great photos of it actually holding the camera and aiming it towards the wall. We were joking the octopus was a videographer too.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoments like that really capture people\u2019s curiosity. It shows them a world they might not get to see otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n

MORE OCTO-FUN: Watch What Happens When An Octopus Steals a Tennis Ball From a Border Collie<\/a><\/p>\n

WATCH the video below\u2026<\/p>\n

REACH OUT TO OCTOPUS-LOVERS By Sharing This on Social Media\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Octopus hugs diver and plays with camera \u2013 SWNS \/ Chris Mullen Two stunned divers have spoken about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,2065,38643,525,6344,21842,8212,128,3926,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-109947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cute","12":"tag-fun","13":"tag-marine-life","14":"tag-oceans","15":"tag-photography","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-vancouver","18":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}