Octopus steals scuba divers video camera

[juneau]

This is possibly the best video i've seen in ages.

while trying to get video of a wild octopus, it suddenly dashes towards me and rips my shiny new camera from out of my hands, then swims off, all while the camera is recording! he swam away very quickly like a naughty shoplifter. after a 5 minute chase, I placed my speargun underneath him and he quickly and curiously grabbed hold of the gun as well, giving me enough time to reach in and grab the camera from out of his mouth. I didn't feel threatened at all during the whole ordeal. he seemed to be fixated on the shiny metallic blue digital camera. the only confusing behavior was how he dashed off with it like a thief haha. cheeky octopus.

octopus steals my video camera and swims off with it (while it's Recording) on Vimeo

[{CLR} ObiTroy]

Cool!

[ch33s3r]

lol I'm surprised he was able to catch up to it!

[DougBob]

ROFL, that is priceless

[juneau]

I think my favourite part is where he takes the Octopus for a swim lol.

[Skud]

That's awesome! That camera takes amazing video, too. If it were me, and I'd found that the octopus had broken that camera, I would have used the spear gun a bit differently. Otherwise, I wouldn't harm an octopus but would love to see one. Very cool!

[MTJ=DK=]

Cool!