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From: GARY TEE
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Date: 13-02-10
Time: 08:56
In your diary for Feb. 9 2010, you tell of an octopus whose home had not been serviced by a rubbish collector. In about 1976 I was on a diving trip based at Whangaroa Harbour, and I dived off Stephenson Island over a level seabed of silty sand at c20m depth. There I saw a discarded bilge-pump, which was surrounded by used scallop shells. I banged my diving knife against the fuel tank to signal to my buddy, whereupon a small octopus came billowing out from the bilge-pump and wiggled its warts at me, to tell me not to ring its doorbell so loudly. Then it got even more furious with me when I used flashbulbs to take photographs, shewing the octopus getting cross-eyed with rage as it huffed and puffed its siphons at me. [Wade:ockies show such a wide range of responses to divers. I wonder if others have favorite octopus stories to share?]
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