There's got to be more to this story... sorry for the skepticism.
Come on... what kind of dive buddy would just sit there filming while you were in a fight for your life?
Was anything done to provoke the octopus?
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I know that they are not cuddly, and anything THAT BIG has to eat big stuff...
But...
Any marine biologists or experienced GPO divers to weigh in on this?