Deep Sea Footage: Octopus On Trinidad Mud Volcano - Ocean Exploration Trust #ocean #nature #scuba #gopro

Oh yeah, another octopus. There we go. Go ahead and zoom if you want. Oh wow. He's beautiful. Judy, Trinidad is delivering on the beautiful animals. Trinidad always does. So welcome to paradise. Another moment brought to you by the 12 to 4 watch. Caribbean reef sharks, siphonophores, octopi. Fields of mussels, stingrays. Amazing siphonophore. Our current depth is 1,270 metres. He's like, I don't like you guys, I'm going to sneak away. Harry Cortez is complaining about too many charismatic megafauna. He's like, can we get the octopus to sit next to a coral or something? Scott, we might have the name of the species there. I'm not even going to attempt to say it. This is of the octopus? Yes. There's a message from Mike. Granelodon varicosa. I'll zoom in all day. Let me know when you've filled up those hard drives with frame grabs. If you're just joining us on Nautilus Live, it's been a pretty interesting half hour. First we discovered this site of mussels living down at a depth of 1,271 metres. As we started to make our way up the hill, we came across a siphonophore. And once we let him go on his way and started our ascent again, we came across this beautiful octopus. We think this is a Granelodon varicosa. I hope I'm saying that right. Of course, you know that octopi and squid and cuttlefish, the chromatophores they have in their skin, they can change colours and textures even behind an object. They can actually match the colour of something. So it's like there's some sort of sensory perception to... He's not doing anything. No, I know. Maybe he's not. I don't know. Or in the deep sea maybe he doesn't need to be able to do that. Bernie, we've just got a viewer who's wondering how the octopus is able to withstand the pressure down here. That's a good question. I'm not completely sure. We were talking about that briefly yesterday with the mussels and some of the other associated polychaetes down here. But they've long evolved over millions of years to adapt. They live in these environments, so this is a natural pressure for them. Often bringing animals from these depths to the surface is not good. But I'm not really... This is outside of my real knowledge. I wish I had a better answer for that. Thanks, Bernie. All right. All right, how do we feel about... Yeah, I think we have enough eye candy here for this octopus. Let's zoom out and say goodbye to our friend, Mr. Octopus, or Mrs. Octopus.