Diver gets scared when being led by an octopus to a tombstone on the seabed

The giant octopus "communicated" with an Australian female diver and "held her hand" and took her to the gravestone of a young man sunk at the bottom of the sea .

The octopus led the diver to the underwater tombstone. (Photo: Jules Casey).

News.com.au on April 18 reported that Australian female diver Jules Casey experienced unexpected and spine-tingling moments when a giant octopus grabbed her hand and brought her to the area with the tombstone. of a young man at the bottom of the sea.

Footage capturing unbelievable moments shows an octopus with tentacles up to 3 meters long wrapping around a diver's hand and leading her to a secret tombstone. At first, she thought the octopus was just curious about her, when it stretched out a long tentacle to wrap around her hand.

The diver was startled when the octopus wrapped his arms around the tombstone on the seabed.

But when it started pulling her hand to swim away, the female diver was the one who was curious, wondering where it was taking her.

"It swam for a while then stopped and looked back at me, as if it wanted to make sure I was still following. It felt like it was convincing, so I thought, okay, I'll follow and see what's going to happen ," Casey said.

After a few minutes of swimming together in the cold waters off the Mornington Peninsula (Australia), the new friends finally reached their destination. Ms. Casey was chilled when she realized that she was being led to a secret tombstone at the bottom of the sea.

The tombstone has an image of a young man holding a white dog and the word Lorenz. The octopus swam around, clinging tightly to the tombstone, seemingly celebrating being able to guide Ms. Casey there.

The astonishing encounter gave her the answer to the mystery she had been searching for since the discovery of several statues in the above area, held in place on the ocean floor by metal rods.

The local diving community was quite tight-knit, and she told them. Finally, she met a man who said he had built the tombstone and placed the underwater statues for his late friend Lorenz.

It is not uncommon for divers to interact with octopuses , as they are very curious. The Maori octopus is one of the largest and healthiest species found throughout southern Australia and New Zealand. They are dark red with mottled white skin and irregularly long tentacles, some of which can be up to 3 meters long.