The incident was caught on the ROV’s video by Mike Wood of SubOceanic With tentacles ‘as thick as man’s arm’ and a bite that he believed can Not wanting to lose the receiver that he had just located he decided to from Seaeye<\/a><\/p>\n see Video<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A giant pacific octopus attacked a Seaeye Falcon ROV working off Vancouver Island as it was locating and recovering receivers tracking pacific offshore salmon migration. The incident was caught on the ROV’s video by Mike Wood of SubOceanic Sciences Canada. … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/occc.jpg\")
<\/a>A giant
\n pacific octopus attacked a Seaeye Falcon ROV working off Vancouver Island
\n as it was locating and recovering receivers tracking pacific offshore
\n salmon migration.<\/p>\n
\n Sciences Canada. He had just located a data recorder and taken a grip of
\n the cable with the ROV’s manipulator arm, when suddenly an 80 lb octopus
\n launched an attack.<\/p>\n
\n exert 1000 lbs pressure, Mike Wood feared the octopus would bite the camera
\n cable or umbilical and trip out the Falcon ROV.<\/p>\n
\n take on the creature and after tightening his grip of the cable with the
\n manipulator arm, revved the ROV’s thrusters in reverse in an attempt to
\n blast seabed particles at the creature. For a moment the octopus appeared
\n to intensify its attack with its mantle flared but eventually the swirling
\n fragments drove it away.<\/p>\n