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\nDavid was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the huge cephalopod mollusc.<\/em><\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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Maybe the giant sea creature became afraid of the flashes, or maybe just became fatigued, but eventually the monster let go and retreated.<\/p>\n
Luckily, David’s diving buddy Warren, captured the struggle on his camera.<\/p>\n
The link to the video is below:<\/p>\n
Diver In Life And Death Struggle With Giant Octopus!<\/a><\/p>\n Sources: 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24,23,9,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3052,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWATCH: Giant octopus tries to make off with scuba diver\u2019s camera<\/a>
\nScuba Divers In Carmel, California Encounter Giant Pacific Octopus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"