Octopus taste and feel through their suction cups, its quite common for them to land on a diver to investigate what exactly they are. These hight intelligent creatures have been know to escape from captivity and open jars to get at food.
This particular one is a small Giant Pacific Octopus and was very interested in my dive partner. It gave me a great opportunity to photography the interaction.
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Scott
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