Yup ive speard more octopus than i can count, when i was a commercial diver we got 3.50$ a lb for those f***kers. Funny story, this guy had moved over from the mainland and he became a fish buyer, so we would sell him fish from time to time. One day he asked if he could come dive with my partner amd i and we said sure. Well before we dropped over this guy say's " hey if you see a tako ( thats the Hawaiian name for octopus) let me know, i love those things. So we r on our dive and i see a pretty good size one ... Bout 5-6 lbs, so i point it out to him, and thats when the fun began. He swims up and grabs this tako and since he never did grabbed one before,he didnt hold it away from his body, so that tako grabbed him rt back with all 8 arms, and their strong AF. SO it grabs him then pulls itself to his face wher it grabs his mask and regulator while also wrapping his other legs around his head and neck kinda like the alien hatchlings in alien vs predator. This guy goes absolutly apeshit crazy trying to pull this tako off his face but when he finally does, it pulls his reg out of his mouth and his mask off his face. At this point he wants to just get this fucker off of him as panic is in full swing cause hes 60 ft underwater with no air and he cant see. My partner and i were of no help cause we were laughing so fucking hard that we almost swallowed our regs.
Anyway the tako let him go and took off and the dude shot up to the surface happy to be alive. We were all laughing about it thinking what the headlines would be " man drowned by 5lb tako" LMFAO!!!!!