Comments on: Giant Pacific Octopus Attacks Submarine

By: TemplarKnight21c

TemplarKnight21c — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:18:29 +0000

Any marine biologist will tell you how intelligent octopi are. It was just investigating the ROV, not attacking it. the humans did the attacking.

By: bccryptid

bccryptid — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:23:07 +0000

Absolutely, the only reason there was any panic at all was apparently because you can’t get insurance for an ROV (weird), and the operator was worried the curious cephalopod would bite and damage his precious toy with it’s beak.

The media, true to form, pumped up the headline for max paper selling effect. We should monitor the internet now for stories about that ‘poor crew in that mini sub that was savaged by a giant octopus off Canada’.

By: texasgirl

texasgirl — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:51:55 +0000

I agree with colobus, I don’t think it was “attacking” anything, more like just checking it out, when they, for some odd reason, flipped on the thruster and blasted it with gravel.

By: colobus

colobus — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:45:19 +0000

I wouldn’t characterize that as an attack so much as that the ROV operators maxed-out the forward thrusters on the ROV (pelting the octopus with considerable gravel and sediment) in an effort to NOT have the octopus disturb the ROV.

It doesn’t appear the the octopus even made physical contact with the ROV.