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Amazing video of shark/octopus encounter
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, Apr 18 2006 04:06 PM
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Posted 18 April 2006 - 04:06 PM
Guys, I don't know if you have seen this or not but this is video of a shark/octopus encounter taken at the Seattle aquarium. It's prety amazing!!!
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Posted 18 April 2006 - 05:07 PM
but I feel sorry for the shark
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Posted 18 April 2006 - 05:32 PM
I wonder if the aquarium is missing any volunteer window cleaners too?
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Posted 19 April 2006 - 01:48 AM
That is so
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Posted 19 April 2006 - 01:55 AM
It's an interesting video for sure. It's a little more dramatic than the actual event since the shark was a dog fish. They look cool but aren't all that big. They are big enough that you would think a GPO would have a hard time grabbing one....and you would be wrong 
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Posted 19 April 2006 - 03:15 PM
Yes, seen that before, it's been mentioned here. Some members of our dive club were involved. There's a dirty little secret regarding that video that I didn't mention before because I didn't want to burst anybody's bubble. But, since we're big boys/girls and can/have dealt with those kind of things, and I keep seeing it brought up here and elsewhere, I'm going to break my silence and reveal it. Here is the scoop from one of the "wranglers" involved: (Last names are withheld to protect good people from embarrassment, yada, yada)
From: "M and B"
Date: Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:55 pm
Subject: Re: Digest Number 1546
Dear MarkerBuoy types:
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The story goes that this was filmed at the aquarium, but they have taken GREAT liberties with the reality.
Dave and I were "dog fish wranglers" that day for this video shoot. We placed an octopus in the dome and let him get comfortable. Then we jumped in, Dave, Jeff, and myself. Dave and I were there to catch the dogfish should it escape from the diabolical "devil fish", the octopus. Jeff was there to "guide" the dogfish into the frame and into the arms of the octopus.
TAKE 1: dogfish swims by out of reach and out of frame...
repeat several times....
TAKE 5?: beat dogfish nearly to death, and hold it until nearly into frame and offer it to octopus. Swims out of frame....
repeat several more times.....
TAKE 23 or so: dogfish is now essentially dead, helped several times to "relax" by Jeff whomping it's head firmly against rocks, etc....
Dogfish "swims" into frame helped by Jeff (note that you never see it's tail until fully grasped by octopus, because Jeff was basically holding the fish by the tail and hitting the octopus with the now VERRRRY RELAXED dogfish)
Lots of very good editing and narration, and suddenly you've got an actual octopus capture of a live dogfish. I've never been soooo disappointed in the reality of National Geographic (the original source for this video) and will never look at nature/wildlife photography in quite the same way.
Brad (disappointed by the manipulation of all of us mass media consumers)
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