The Kraken.
We are at 1,880 meters.
This guy is about eight inches across.
It's called a Muusoctopus.
A typical benthic octopod of the deep sea.
One characteristic about these is that they don't have a functional ink sack.
Even though it looks a lot like a shallow-water octopod, it's different in several ways.
There's two in there.
Okay. So this is the one we saw crawling on the seafloor earlier.
Yeah. See the other one inside?
Battling it out for the spot there?
He's breaking apart the wreck.
Okeanos, if you could have your creature stop tearing apart the shipwreck, that'd be great.
Copy that, shoreside. We'll do our best to communicate that to them.
He gave up.
He's just very upset that he couldn't take that hiding spot from the other octopus.
I've seen a lot of images and some video of that species before, I've never seen that kind of behavior.
Exciting Octopus Friday for us here on the Okeanos Explorer.