Cool Octopus - 2/11/11

Thats awesome Eric!  What a find!  Octopus is sooo good!  I dont know if I would have took him either, maybe if it were smaller.  Anyhow, now that this thread hasnt been commented on in a few days I'll proceed with the thread jack- its for our own good 

Gnarley


And change the batteries in your smoke detector! 

Dude, Eric... you don't use gloves when you dive up there?  Or just since you were playing in the shallows?

That vid was SCARY, Shellback!  Not a threadjack at all.  Thx for sharing it.   

Dude, Eric... you don't use gloves when you dive up there?  Or just since you were playing in the shallows?

I have gloves, Fuzz, but I don't wear them unless it's one of those mid 40's water temp days.  I like having a better sense of what I'm grabbing onto in all those holes I reach in.  I wore out many pairs of gloves in my heavy ab hunting days, and the cuts were worse than those I get from bare-handed diving because by the time I ripped into the palm and fingertips of the gloves I'd go on to slashing my skin.  I've developed a pretty keen sense for how to grab onto urchin and barnacle covered rocks in low viz where the surge is pushing me around.  Minor bleeds are good for you.   

A couple years back Domenic and I were diving in Trinidad and the water was COLD.  My hands were going numb, and I knew my time in the water was limited due to it - wasn't carrying any gloves with me.  I slithered around the perimeter of an easy chair sized boulder and came face to shell with a 10.5" ab.  My hands got warm within seconds just from the stoke!   

I have gloves, Fuzz, but I don't wear them unless it's one of those mid 40's water temp days.  I like having a better sense of what I'm grabbing onto in all those holes I reach in.  I wore out many pairs of gloves in my heavy ab hunting days, and the cuts were worse than those I get from bare-handed diving because by the time I ripped into the palm and fingertips of the gloves I'd go on to slashing my skin.  I've developed a pretty keen sense for how to grab onto urchin and barnacle covered rocks in low viz where the surge is pushing me around.  Minor bleeds are good for you.   

A couple years back Domenic and I were diving in Trinidad and the water was COLD.  My hands were going numb, and I knew my time in the water was limited due to it - wasn't carrying any gloves with me.  I slithered around the perimeter of an easy chair sized boulder and came face to shell with a 10.5" ab.  My hands got warm within seconds just from the stoke!   

Craziness... I have to wear gloves in Hawaii.   

another EXCELLENT & EDUCATIONAL underwater adventure from the dryness and safety of my cube.
THANX Budee = you're the best!

That octo ws completely cool. Or is that totally tubular? Never saw anything like it myself.