Welcome to Octopus Dive School
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Octopus Dive School is a PADI 5 Star DIve Center, located in Sandy Bay, Roatán in Honduras.
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Octopus Dive School Roatán, Honduras - Interview with Nuria Corraliza
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Scuba diving with octopus Roatan Honduras
2 Minutes of Octopus off the Dock in Sandy Bay, Roatan, Honduras
Slow music to relax with for a few minutes in the middle of a hectic day. Pretty boring otherwise.
Diving Roatan, Honduras coral reefs
Diving the reefs of Roatan, Honduras, out of Coco View Resort. Moray eels, wreck dive, octopus, barracuda.
Octopus Lure
This was shot while diving (with Pro Scuba Center Rocky Mount, NC) in Honduras on the wall in front of CoCo View Resort on Roatan.
I can't really say what this is but to me it looks like an Octopus using a lure in hopes of attracting fish. It could be fishing line in which the octopus was ensnared but it doesn't look like it to me.
Roatán (Melissa's Reef)
Buceando con la gente de Octopus Dive School en Melissa's Reef (Roatán-Honduras, 2018).
Western Part of Sandy Bay Beach
Octopus versus sharptail eel in Roatan Honduras. Not a happy ending (fair warning)
I recommend you set this to view in the highest resolution your device supports. This is the full video and a panned in/closeup version of this : the unexpected predation of an eel by an octopus. Taken August 27th 2015 in Roatan Honduras.
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Roatan Scuba Diving Highlights (with Wrecks and Fish ID) in HD
Highlights of 17 hour-long dives in Roatán, Honduras, from July 2016. Most fish species are labeled to help you learn the species. Highlights include a night dive viewing of a Caribbean Reef Octopus, a daytime viewing of a school of Caribbean Reef Squid, a Longlure Frogfish, and three wreck dives. Most dives are from the northern coast near West Bay. The final two dives are near Mary's Place on the southern side of the island. We dove with Seagrape Plantation Dive Resort for most dives, and with Barefoot Dive Resort for the two dives in the Mary's Place area. Enjoy!
Octopus on night dive, pillar corals site, roatan honduras
Octopus on night dive at pillar corals site in roatan honduras.
Roatan Octopus During Night Snorkel
This octopus was spotted on a night snorkel on the reef right outside of the Infinity Bay Spa and Resort.
Roatan Honduras - Fishing in Sandy Bay
Octopus run. Roatan,Honduras
Octopus run on Butcher reef divesite. Roatan Island, Honduras
Roatan Night Dive-Octopus
Greg Gililland diving a wreck at Sandy bay Roatan
110' dive on the El Aquila
Roatan Octopus
We spotted this little guy on our way back to the beach after snorkeling for a couple hours off West Bay Beach. He was about 20 yards off the beach in about 5' of water.
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The octopus's predators include moray and conger eels, dolphins and sharks. Whenever possible, the octopus will escape from its predators by shooting a jet of water through its body to create a burst of speed.
Often, however, the octopus avoids detection completely. It can change its body colour and texture so perfectly that it can virtually disappear. The colored pigment in its skin can be concentrated or diluted, forming stripes and patterns that blend into the environment.
The octopus's ink sac also helps it avoid attack. It releases a disorienting black cloud that is accompanied by another secretion to dull the attacker's sense of smell.
The well armed octopus has a secret weapon. Concealed in the folds of its body lies a sackful of ink, which the octopus secretes to ward off or confuse its enemies.
A bottom-dwelling animal, the octopus makes its home in a hole or rock crevice in shallow water. Sometimes it digs a gravel nest or forms a protective area with a pile of rocks.
By day, the octopus spends most of its time hidden in its lair. When it hunts, it propels itself by swimming or crawling along on its tentacles. Its large, lidded eyes are adapted to focus in dim underwater light.The octopus does most of its hunting at night. It emerges from its rocky lair to seek crabs, crayfish, and mollusks, which are its favourite foods.
The octopus catches most of its prey by stealth. Having changed colour to blend in with its surroundings, the well-camouflaged octopus waits for prey to pass by and then seizes it with its long arms. The arms are powerful and flexible, with two rows of suckers that help it grip its slippery prey. The octopus then stuns its victim with a secretion of nerve poison. To stalk lobsters and other dangerous prey, the octopus squirts ink into the water to form a screen. Hiding behind the dark cloud, it creeps up on its victim and grabs it from behind.
If the octopus's prey is hard-shelled, the octopus punctures the shell by drilling with its tongue, which is covered in small, sharp teeth.
DID YOU KNOW?
The first writing ink was made from pigment found in the octopus's sac.
The octopus is messy. It is easy to identify its lair by the pile of discarded shells outside the entrance.
If an octopus damages one of its vital arms, it can grow a new one.
The octopus is capable of learning. In an experiment, octopi were trained to distinguish between shapes and also to recognize objects by touch.
BREEDING
Sexual maturity: Females, 1 1/2 - 2 years. Males, earlier.
No. of eggs laid: Up to 150,000.
Hatching time: 4 - 6 weeks.
When octopi mate, the male sends waves of spermatophores down one of its arms - the hectocotylus's - into the female to fertilize her eggs.
For about a week afterward, the female lays clusters of grapelike eggs inside her nest. She will not leave her nest in the month to six weeks that it takes to hatch. Because female octopi do not eat while they are guarding their eggs, it is not uncommon for them to die of starvation.
The eggs hatch into larvae that look like tiny versions of their parents. They come to rest on the seabed, where they mature quickly.
Diving with Scuba Roatan
Another awesome dive adventure! Thanks to Rino and the crew at Scuba Roatan.