Octopod: May 6, 2017

Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin. Download larger version (mp4, 10.9 MB).

 

Come out, come out — it's #OctopusFriday!

This amazing footage was captured in 2017 while exploring off Jarvis Island, an uninhabited island in the Pacific just south of the Equator whose surrounding waters were full of treasures!