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The Kraken.

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We are at 1,880 meters.

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This guy is about eight inches across.

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It's called a Muusoctopus.

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A typical benthic octopod of the deep sea.

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One characteristic about these is that they don't have a functional ink sack.

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Even though it looks a lot like a shallow-water octopod, it's different in several ways.

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There's two in there.

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Okay. So this is the one we saw crawling on the seafloor earlier.

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Yeah. See the other one inside?

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Battling it out for the spot there?

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He's breaking apart the wreck.

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Okeanos, if you could have your creature stop tearing apart the shipwreck, that'd be great.

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Copy that, shoreside. We'll do our best to communicate that to them.

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He gave up.

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He's just very upset that he couldn't take that hiding spot from the other octopus.

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I've seen a lot of images and some video of that species before, I've never seen that kind of behavior.

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Exciting Octopus Friday for us here on the Okeanos Explorer.