The underwater photographer Andrew Humphreys captured the rare close encounter with an octopus. All this happened during an outing of the woman, together with two friends, in three-meter deep waters off the Campbell River on Vancouver Island, Canada. “I have been diving for 12 years. It’s never happened to me before. It was just mind-blowing, incredible,” says Humphreys who has made more than 675 dives around the world, but describes his interaction with the octopus as the experience of a lifetime.
Humphreys estimated the animal to have been over ten feet long, with a body larger than a basketball. The octopus started crawling towards a friend of his who had never seen one before, then “said hello” to Humphreys by fully wrapping his camera and more. “Its tentacles reached for the camera to feel my face and then, at one point, it crawled up my body, up my hips, and was hugging me. It had its tentacles on and around my mouth and was sucking my lip, which is the only exposed part of my body,” says Humphreys, who captured the entire interaction on video, including her “squeals of excitement.”
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Humphreys estimated the animal to have been over ten feet long, with a body larger than a basketball. The octopus started crawling towards a friend of his who had never seen one before, then “said hello” to Humphreys by fully wrapping his camera and more. “Its tentacles reached for the camera to feel my face and then, at one point, it crawled up my body, up my hips, and was hugging me. It had its tentacles on and around my mouth and was sucking my lip, which is the only exposed part of my body,” says Humphreys, who captured the entire interaction on video, including her “squeals of excitement.”
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