"Just going to start this off by saying I’m an idiot when it comes to sea life when i was little i would grab smaller morray eels, chase barracudas so i could watch them, would pet sea turtles with shells the diameter of 3′ or more, but one thing that really scared the piss out of me is when i went down probably 20′ to grab a big conch shell i saw, and just as i grabbed it an octopus tentacle the width of my forearm grabbed my arm and squeezed me against the shell, I managed to pull it off me although it definitely was tough to do (the f@#kers are strong!) needless to say I surfaced, went back down to look at the perpitrator, then noped the f@#k away from it while I still had all my fingers intact."

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