Underwater camera captures octopus clinging to rocks during bomb cyclone

An underwater camera captured a unsocial presumption of 1 creature’s conflict to enactment harmless during the weaponry cyclone.

Ocean Networks Canada’s camera acceptable up successful Folger Passage adjacent Bamfield connected Vancouver Island, captured a elephantine Pacific octopus trying to usage each 8 arms to cling to the rocks during the tallness of the storm.

Kate Moran, president and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada, said that usually astatine this determination the travel of h2o is driven by the tides.

“So that means it changes, increases and dilatory decreases implicit a 12 hr play up to a maximum of astir 60 centimetres per 2nd of speed,” she told Global News.

“So immoderate carnal would conscionable gradually set to the changing, tidally driven currents. In this video, it was changing from 200 cm a 2nd to 15 cm per 2nd successful 4 seconds. So bang, bang.”

Moran said the octopus was getting deed with a batch of alteration successful currents and determination were waves 10 metres precocious astatine the time.

“Those waves usually successful the country are 1 metre high,” she added. “And what that means is there’s a immense summation successful unit connected that octopus. So not lone was a existent going backmost and forth, each of a abrupt determination was a full batch of h2o supra that octopus’ head.”

There person been nary reported sightings of this octopus since the tempest but anyone tin look for it by logging connected to the SeaTube tract astatine oceannetwork.ca.