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What's the story on hunting octopus?

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I never dive without a knife. Seems dangerous to go out in the ocean with float lines and spear rigging and all the rest of the awesomeness that we enjoy and not bring a knife.

I'd like to hear more about how you got snagged by the octo -- did you end up killing it or did it escape after the tentacle chopping?
 
It could be half holed-up in the rocks and half holding onto the diver, connecting him to the bottom.
 
Apneaddict said:
It could be half holed-up in the rocks and half holding onto the diver, connecting him to the bottom.
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that makes sense. what's considered a "big octopus" that could be capable of holding a diver underwater? I've so far only seen ones that have a head the size of a cantaloupe or small watermelon -- tentacles being a couple of feet in length if I had to guess.
 
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_wrestling

Apparently, they can get quite big!!
LOL
 
poildeq said:
In Rodrigue its hunted by women, they carry a piece of sturdy wire with a bent end and pull it out of the hole,, they then grab it and turn the head cap inside out it kills it instantly.
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Exactly the same way of dispatching as Korean Sea Women have done for centuries. I have seen it done while taking pics of them off the coast of Jeju Island.
Was instant and seems like a good way.

As a side note, that octopus was then handed to me right there on the spot as a gift.
When the sea woman realized I had no clue what to do with it, she went down again and resurfaced with a few sea urchins, cracked them open and fed me right there. I must have looked hungry.
Gotta be the best day of my (underwater) photography career
 
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