British Columbia scuba diver Andrea Humphreys' new acquaintance greeted her more like a long-lost friend, with extended arms, then a full-body hug, and finally a kiss, lip to tentacle.
The schoolteacher's video of the rare moment with the creature, in three-meter-deep water off Campbell River on the of Vancouver Island, has gone viral.
“So, our goal was to find that person an octopus and we geared up and got in the water. And within three minutes, I found this octopus that was just sitting there, out in the open," said Humphreys. “And it had tentacles up and around my mouth and it was sucking on my lip, which is the only exposed part of my body,” said Humphreys, who captured the whole interaction on video, complete with her "squeals of excitement."
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