Walking Giant Pacific Octopus

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Very cool. Never have seen them out walking but have seen them hiding quite a bit. Where was this video taken?
 
I'm confused. There were a couple of times the octopus touched a glass wall between it and the camera, but the wall seemed to be moving with it. I thought at first it touched the camera housing, but the proportions were all wrong. How/where was this taken?
 
It, no doubt, touched the dome port. The wide angle of the lens made it look further away than it was, I would guess.

I like how the song is synchronized to the video so that when the octopus touches the dome we hear the lyrics "these boots are gonna walk all over you."
 
Very cool. Never have seen them out walking but have seen them hiding quite a bit. Where was this video taken?

This was shot at "Cove 2" Seacrest in West Seattle.

---------- Post added January 27th, 2015 at 10:02 AM ----------

It, no doubt, touched the dome port. The wide angle of the lens made it look further away than it was, I would guess.

Allison's got it... The octo changed direction and walked right over me, twice! I use a Gates housing which has big thick fathom port on it so it has very close focus ability and is reasonably far from the camera :)
 

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