Amazing video of shark/octopus encounter
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Posted 18 April 2006 - 04:06 PM
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Posted 18 April 2006 - 05:07 PM
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Posted 18 April 2006 - 05:32 PM
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Posted 19 April 2006 - 01:48 AM
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Posted 19 April 2006 - 01:55 AM
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Posted 19 April 2006 - 03:15 PM
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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