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I think this is a fascinating creature with clearly some very strong emotions just like we do as humans,” he added. “They are beautiful creatures and I really hope this provokes more interest in octopuses as opposed to fear of them. Karlson said he’d never seen an octopus that close before and watched the Netflix documentary “My Octopus Teacher” after the incident to learn more about the cephalopods. “Like all octopuses it is venomous, but like most it is harmless to humans, with the venoms dramatically more potent on invertebrates like clams and lobster,” he told CNN Friday. “The pain went away and more than anything since then, it’s been more the physical hit that was painful… The imprint on my neck in those photos is more from the physical hit, and I guess it makes complete sense when you look at the video I took 20 minutes earlier of that lashing out,” he said.īryan Fry, an associate professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland, identified the octopus as a common Octopus vulgaris. All his family could grab was Coca-Cola, which his wife poured over his back in the shower and the pain dissipated. Within a minute, a perfect imprint of an octopus tentacle appeared on Karlson’s neck and back.Ī former volunteer lifeguard, Karlson rushed back to his hotel room to find something acidic to put on the wound. Octopuses are known to squirt an ink-like substance when they feel threatened, CNN reports. “I was confused - it was more of a shock than a fright,” said Karlson.

As seen in the viral clip, the man is recording the octopus under water when it quickly snaps its tentacles aggressively towards him. Mr Karlson said he did not know the species but it may have been an Octopus tetricus, otherwise known as a 'gloomy octopus'.Ī species of octopus closely related to the East Australian 'gloomy octopus' is found in Western Australia, and is known to hide in crevices on sand or in mud.His goggles fogged and the water around him turned murky with what he thought might have been octopus ink as he struggled back toward the shore. Lance Karlson recently took his two year old daughter to Geographe Bay, a popular snorkeling spot in Australia, where they had a surprise encounter with an octopus. 'The pain went away quickly, it was more the physical hit that had hurt.' Mr Karlson was holidaying in Geographe Bay, Western Australia, when the incident occurred Mr Karlson said he noticed the octopus after it had similarly tried to attack a seagull a short time before.

'We did not have any vinegar/acid to pour over the stings so my wife poured coke over me, which helped enormously,' he said. Lance said later he went into the ocean alone to swim around for a bit and the octopus came and found him and attacked him again this time actually hitting him with its tentacles lashings and leaving him dazed and confused in murky water. The former lifeguard told his wife to pour Coke on his neck to stop the stinging. Woman's warning to beachgoers after finding a deadly octopus inside a shell - and it's MUCH harder to spot than its blue-ringed cousins.Terrifying moment an eel violently attacks an OCTOPUS in ultimate deep sea battle.Terrifying video shows a deadly blue-ringed octopus lurking in a rock pool at a popular beach - and their fatal bites can paralyse within ten minutes.'My goggles were too fogged to see what had happened and I swam back to shore in pain the imprints of the tentacles quickly formed raised marks across my skin.' I was then hit again over my neck,' he recalled. 'As I was looking at the shells underwater I was hit across my arm.

Mr Karlson said when he went for a swim about 20 minutes later he saw the 'sea monster' sitting on a large pile of crab shells. On March 18, Lance Karlson was at the beach with his family in Western Australia’s Geographe Bay when he saw a slender appendage break the water’s surface and strike out at a floating sea gull. The octopus lashed out at us, which was a. 'I walked with my daughter in my arms up to the octopus and took the video the octopus lashed out at us.' Author Lance Karlson called his attacker a 'sea monster' in a scathing social media post Then, to Karlson’s surprise, the octopus suddenly unleashed a multi-armed attack that sent tentacles flying out of the water and into the air. ' I saw the tentacles of an octopus come out of the water and lash out at a seagull. 'I thought it was a stingray at first,' he told Daily Mail Australia. Mr Karlson described the animal as 'the angriest octopus in Geographe Bay'. 'Angry' octopus lashed out at unsuspecting father The octopus is alleged to have grab his neck On March 18, 34-year-old Lance Karlson was. He videoed the octopus splaying in the crystal clear water, before it pounced on his neck when he turned his back. But an Australian geologist saw another side to the marine creatures, when one octopus defended its home in Western Australia rather aggressively.