Video: Octopus filmed in Dutch waters for first time
6 years, 5 months ago

Video: Octopus filmed in Dutch waters for first time

NL Times  

Hobby diver Mark Barto recorded remarkable footage of a small octopus while diving in the North Sea off the coast of Callantsoog on Saturday. His footage turned out to be even more remarkable than he thought - this is the first time ever a live common octopus was recorded in Dutch waters, NOS reports. "According to experts from Naturalis, a small octopus has never been spotted alive in the North Sea. Fishermen sometimes find dead specimens of this octopus in their nets and they sometimes wash up on the beach, but apparently there were no images of it until now", he said to newspaper AD.

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