Wow! I believe this is the deep-sea octopus, graneledone boreopacifica.
I wonder if they might be guarding a clutch of
eggs. Sometimes they kind of hang off of the sides of rocks
like that when when that's what they're up to. So she's just
clinging on and we can barely catch a glimpse of the eggs
beneath. You can almost see -- can't tell its shadows or
something moving around in there. They'll kind of adhere
to parts of this rock and dangle a little bit and I think
she's just, you know, occasionally gently blowing
water over them to keep them supplied with fresh water and
protection. Very cool to be able to capture this really
rarely seen process happening. And I think we'll we'll move
on. There's another octopus. Gonna come in. Here's a little
baby one. Zoom in. Oh, that's so cool! So we've seen the mother
octopus, a couple of them guarding their clutches of eggs,
and now this one, less than 10 centimeter wide, juvenile, baby
deep-sea octopus. Beautiful. This one's very active too.
It's really kind of motoring along. Oh, it's so cute.