Britains (no)lesser octopus

After having spoken to fishermen and local divers around the north
> Welsh coast and spending nearly 200 hours underwater searching for our
> native octopus, i still have had no luck in meeting one face to face.
> Does anyone know of the location of one of these beautifull creatures?
> or can anyone tell me how i can refine my search or improve my chances
> of an encounter? They are only small compared to the common octopus
> so does this smaller size make them less bold or nosy than there
> larger kin? Hoping you can help..........Dave

In article <d27ef29d.0310150312.4314a88d@posting.google.com >,
David. <onebigdave@hotmail.com> wrote:
>After having spoken to fishermen and local divers around the north
>> Welsh coast and spending nearly 200 hours underwater searching for our
>> native octopus, i still have had no luck in meeting one face to face.
>> Does anyone know of the location of one of these beautifull creatures?
>> or can anyone tell me how i can refine my search or improve my chances
>> of an encounter? They are only small compared to the common octopus
>> so does this smaller size make them less bold or nosy than there
>> larger kin? Hoping you can help..........Dave

I've only ever see one, and that was 90m down off the South Irish coast..

Gordon

"David." <onebigdave@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> After having spoken to fishermen and local divers around the north
> > Welsh coast and spending nearly 200 hours underwater searching for our
> > native octopus, i still have had no luck in meeting one face to face.
> > Does anyone know of the location of one of these beautifull creatures?
> > or can anyone tell me how i can refine my search or improve my chances
> > of an encounter? They are only small compared to the common octopus
> > so does this smaller size make them less bold or nosy than there
> > larger kin? Hoping you can help..........Dave

The North East coast is a good area. I've seen them in both the Farnes and
St. Abbs. In my experience they seem to run for their lives on day dives,
but on night dives they get all "I'm the man" and stick out their legs into
a star shape. I've heard they can get all friendly and play with your
gloves, but I haven't seen it.

I don't know what time of year is best for them, but I've only seen them on
summer dives.

mattD

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:48:34 +0000 (UTC), gordon@unicorn.drogon.net
(Gordon Henderson) wrote:

>In article <d27ef29d.0310150312.4314a88d@posting.google.com >,
>David. <onebigdave@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>After having spoken to fishermen and local divers around the north
>>> Welsh coast and spending nearly 200 hours underwater searching for our
>>> native octopus, i still have had no luck in meeting one face to face.
>>> Does anyone know of the location of one of these beautifull creatures?
>>> or can anyone tell me how i can refine my search or improve my chances
>>> of an encounter? They are only small compared to the common octopus
>>> so does this smaller size make them less bold or nosy than there
>>> larger kin? Hoping you can help..........Dave
>
>I've only ever see one, and that was 90m down off the South Irish coast..

Lusitania?

Laz

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"David." wrote:

> After having spoken to fishermen and local divers around the north
> > Welsh coast and spending nearly 200 hours underwater searching for our
> > native octopus, i still have had no luck in meeting one face to face.
> > Does anyone know of the location of one of these beautifull creatures?
> > or can anyone tell me how i can refine my search or improve my chances
> > of an encounter? They are only small compared to the common octopus
> > so does this smaller size make them less bold or nosy than there
> > larger kin? Hoping you can help..........Dave

Daniel photographed one on the last UKRS Farnes trip.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/daniel....arnes/pics.htm

Adrian

David." <onebigdave@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> After having spoken to fishermen and local divers around the north Welsh
coast and spending nearly 200 hours >underwater searching for our native
octopus,

I have seen an octopus of the pemembrokeshire coast and also on a shore dive
out of Martins Haven..Hope that helps

MarkW

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David. <onebigdave@hotmail.com> skriver:
> After having spoken to fishermen and local divers around the north
> Welsh coast and spending nearly 200 hours underwater searching for our
> native octopus, i still have had no luck in meeting one face to face.
> Does anyone know of the location of one of these beautifull creatures?
> or can anyone tell me how i can refine my search or improve my chances
> of an encounter? They are only small compared to the common octopus
> so does this smaller size make them less bold or nosy than there
> larger kin? Hoping you can help..........Dave

Being out on the web surfing and looking at some friends report of
diving at Farnes I found this picture:

http://www.grodmanssyndikatet.se/ima.../db349-01.html

Sure looks like a octopus. I guess that the images is takes at a dive
called "The Pinnacles".

/ Balp
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On 15 Oct 2003 04:12:13 -0700, onebigdave@hotmail.com (David.) wrote:

>>After having spoken to fishermen and local divers around the north
>> Welsh coast and spending nearly 200 hours underwater searching for our
>> native octopus, i still have had no luck in meeting one face to face.

Which makes me feel even more lucky - I met an octopus on my second
ever sea dive, up in the Farnes this April. It was tucked into an
alcove in the rocks, and didn't move until I was close enough to
tickle it - at which point it sneaked out and zoomed off into the UK
standard issue murky distance. Fantastic.

Head about 8" tall, tentacles maybe a foot (ho ho).

Cheers - Jaimie
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