No, not THAT Octomom. Merry seemed to attract a lot of octopus today. We decided to make a long shallow dive to shoot video and pictures of the tiny critters of Redondo Beach. Patchy red tide kept us in the same area for most of the dive, so we only covered about 2000 square feet. Even in drysuits, we were getting cold by the time we turned the dive. Visibility was a cloudy fifteen feet near the edge of the canyon, with three feet near shore.
This tiny reef was actually a well-camouflaged crab.

Kelp float in a bryozoan costume

Octobaby