Octopus steals camera from diver and swims away with it

The below video shows an octopus grabbing a diver's video camera while he was filming underwater and then swimming away with it (while it was still filming).

The diver had been filming the eight-armed bandit off the coast of Wellington, New Zealand, when it suddenly reached out with a tentacle and grabbed at him.

The diver initially thought he was being attacked and tried to get back up to the surface. But he soon realized the octopus was only after his bright blue underwater camera.

The diver caught up with the octopus then held out his speargun in a bid to distract it. When it grabbed the gun with several tentacles, he used the chance to free his camera.



Original article here.