Last month, Warren Murray and David Malvestuto were making a SCUBA dive in 80 feet at Bluefish Cove in Carmel, California, when they came across a giant octopus that are usually found at depth.

Maybe the giant octopus swam to shallower waters in an attempt to find food?

Both started taking pictures of the giant sea creature when the giant octopus lunged towards David.

David was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the huge cephalopod mollusc.

In a scene that looked like an underwater tourist fending off an eight-armed crack addicted thug, David made a life and death struggle with the giant octopus as it tried to steal his camera.

Maybe the giant sea creature became afraid of the flashes, or maybe just became fatigued, but eventually the monster let go and retreated.

Luckily, David’s diving buddy Warren, captured the struggle on his camera.

The link to the video is below:

Diver In Life And Death Struggle With Giant Octopus!

Sources:
WATCH: Giant octopus tries to make off with scuba diver’s camera
Scuba Divers In Carmel, California Encounter Giant Pacific Octopus

September 14, 2013*

It’s Saturday, and the plan is for Igor’s group to do a deep, technical dive in the morning.

In the afternoon, I’ll go with them for a recreational dive.

I woke up around 8 AM, to get some coffee and walk in to town to use the internet.

Everyone seemed to be either pissed, upset, distressed or in some kind of panic mode.

Among the things that I picked up in all the Polish speaking panic, were the words, “To nie dobrze…” – “This is not good.”

I asked Kamil what was going on.

“We are having problems with the boat, it is not working,” Kamil said.

I walked over to the dock…

Dude, where’s the boat?

Everyone was here, but no boat?

I went to get more coffee and saw Kasia.

“Kasia, what happened to the boat?” I asked.

“The guy we rented the boat for the weekend from didn’t pay for registration and it got confiscated in the middle of the night,” she said.

She continued, “All he could say was, ‘Sorry, I guess I forgot.’ We are looking for another boat.”

This will cost us some dives I’m sure.

*This post has been delayed due to Polish beer, Vodka and lack of internet access.