Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

there's another big octopus right next to her.
just in case it attacked, and put up the shield.
And then, bang!
so I just gently pushed for the surface, thinking she would move off my hand.
[whales hooting]
Instinctively, I knew not to wear a wet suit.
They can match color, texture, pattern, skin.
and... and how that changed me.
Imagine having 2,000 fingers.
The first instinct is to try and scare the sharks away.
And then I met these men
she can then get between the lobster and myself.
People ask, "Why are you going to the same place every day?"
Often, I go to the place of her main den.
To sense how vulnerable these wild animals' lives are,
I'd witnessed something extraordinary.
piece of algae that you can hardly hold with your hands
But underneath that,
[man] A lot of people say that an octopus is like an alien.
Then I was like, "Hold on.
And the predation marks.
So while I was very excited that this mating was beginning,
coming through the water.
there's-- there's something to this creature that's very unusual.
They have up to half a million young. A handful survive.
She'd see big movement,
is actually outside of her brain, in her arms.
but they've got these incredibly hard shells.
it helps tremendously to have no barrier to that environment.
And then, as your body adapts, it just becomes easier and easier.
You're on hyperalert.
"Okay, I trust you. I trust you, human.
reaching up for the surface like that.
And I suddenly realized I've got energy to take images and film again...
It took a long time to actually, like, process it.
And the shark, it's just been completely outwitted.
and just going down...
packed with pyjama sharks.