Octopus uses all eight legs to cling on during B.C.’s bomb cyclone [Video]

Footage captured by ocean researchers offer some insight into how at least one marine animal was affected by the ‘bomb cyclone’ that hit B.C. this week.

Video shared by Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria shows a giant Pacific octopus as it gets knocked around by a rapidly changing underwater current on the morning of Nov. 20 during a storm that saw gusts of wind as high as 170 km/h.

The footage was captured at Folger Passage near Bamfield on Vancouver Island, where instruments measured waves 10 metres high, compared to the usual one metre, and vertical currents three times stronger than normal.

The video starts with the octopus’s legs swirling about as the creature emerges from some shelter and then shows it holding on tight as it shakes around.

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