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Interesting. >> danny and doug were in an area teeming with fish when they stumble upon an octopus den. >> i looked down and i thought, great, let's go down and see if anybody's home. >> doug's eager to get up close and personal with the normally shy but intensely curious sea animal. >> so i took my hand and put it at the entrance to the den, and sure enough one of the arms came up and started feeling up my hand. i put my other hand down and another arm came up and started feeling up my hand. and i thought, this is going to be good. >> doug, having experience with these guys, knew instinctivel...

>> i'd peel one arm off and two more arms would stick to me. i'd peel those off and two more would stick over on this side. it was -- it was a bit of a fight. >> after a couple terrifying minutes, the octopus finally lets go. remarkably, danny morrow catches the whole thing on camera. >> people ask, why didn't you help him get the tentacles off his face? first of all, doug's a really experienced diver and he's been around a lot of these animals. i kind of suspected that he knew what he was doing. frankly, i don't think i could have helped him. i think most divers, myself included, would have p...

The dominican republic suddenly turns to horror. >> that one whale came up right underneath me. i'm looking, and, oh, my god, he's going to hit me. >> i mean, you got a couple tons of whale tail coming at you that fast. it's barnacle and bone. it would have been like getting hit with a baseball bat the size of a tree. >> the day starts out calmly for two experienced divers, danny morrow and jim cosmic. morrow's had his share of close encounters. as we just witnessed, a massive octopus puts the squeeze on his good friend, doug pemberton. that close call turned out okay and doug clawed his way t...

Deadly wrestling match with a giant octopus 80 feet beneath the surface. his diving partner catches the whole grisly struggle on camera. >> just that fast, that octopus was on my face. and it was really quite startling. i was shocked. >> doug pemberton and danny morrow are veteran deep-sea divers, fearless adventurers under the high seas. there's not much they haven't seen, and there's almost nothing they're afraid of. but a dive in the cold waters of british columbia would put that fearlessness to the test. it begins as routine as any other dive. >> there was a relatively uneventful dive. the...

Would stick over on this side. it was -- it was a bit of a fight. >> after a couple terrifying minutes, the octopus finally lets go. remarkably, danny morrow catches the whole thing on camera. >> people ask, why didn't you help him get the tentacles off his face? first of all, doug's a really experienced diver and he's been around a lot of these animals. i kind of suspected that he knew what he was doing. frankly, i don't think i could have helped. i think most divers, myself included, would have panicked. you've got to hand it to him for keeping his composure and not panicking. >> doug's stil...