Sit back and enjoy 10 relaxing minutes at the Octopus Garden

Deep below the ocean’s surface, just off the Central California coast, thousands of pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) gather near an extinct underwater volcano. MBARI and a team of collaborators used high-tech tools to monitor the Octopus Garden and learn exactly why this site is so attractive to these animals. After three years of study, researchers confirmed that Muusoctopus gather at the Octopus Garden to mate and nest in cracks and crevices bathed by deep-sea thermal springs. This site is the largest known aggregation of octopus anywhere in the world, with more than 20,000 octopus nests. The abundance of other marine life that thrives there underscores the need to understand and protect hotspots of life on the deep seafloor from threats like climate change and seabed mining.
Learn more: www.mbari.org/project/the-oct...
Video credits:
Producer/editor: Kyra Schlining
Production team: Kyra Schlining, Nancy Jacobsen Stout, Susan von Thun
Music: Octopus Garden by Catechism (cccatechism.bandcamp.com/)

[@kjerstik3211]

I love how the mom(?) octopus seems to brush away the shrimp that gets too close to the newly hatched octopus. Fascinating. Thank you.

[@alveolate]

im an octopus and this is the exact soundtrack that plays in my head all day

[@jannetteberends8730]

That was super cute. All those beautiful little baby octopuses, floating away, all so different.
It must be marvelous to be an octopus, swimming like that. So effortlessly.
The garden itself was amazing.

[@USMC_LAterZ]

Life of an octopus is really nice indeed. Always on the lookout for food and from predators trying to eat them. What a wonderful life.

[@Natalia-ej2tx]

beautiful baby octopuses.

[@brucefelter1335]

WOW! AMAZING! Thank you for such important and valuable research!

[@tinymoogle]

Took the words right out of my mouth! Wow. So literally awesome.
Thank you MBARI

[@Kilroyan]

Wow, incredible footage. The custom music was an immersive addition, too. Thank you for sharing your work with the world!

[@GentleReader01]

This is amazing, and delightful. Thanks to everyone involved.

[@samsonkjoseph6087]

Thank you

[@arliafrink3043]

Exactly what this Tuesday needed! Thank you for this!

[@louisanow]

Love this video and the music you chose to go with it!

[@LightworkBeacon]

Look how they make way and account for each other.❤

[@nightstar4483]

The life cycle of an octopus is so sad yet beautiful, both parents die in the process of creating offspring’s, the almost dead bodies of the female octopuses laying there on the sea floor wrapping the eggs, and the newly hatched babies floating by its really pretty and sad.

[@laurasohn8332]

I'd like to be... Under the sea... In an octopus's garden in the shade...🎶🎵

[@juliearmstrong488]

So delicate yet under such immense pressure

[@Natalia-ej2tx]

Simply magnificent.

[@KarnivorousKeyz]

such beautiful .oments caught. thanks for sharing

[@Aaron-555]

Awesome video! 🐙🐙🐙

[@ourcommonancestry6025]

God bless you for showing off one of the greatest critters to ever live!

[@paillette2010]

So wonderful. Thank you! ❤❤❤

[@andrastetriformis6241]

🐙❤🐙

[@chinookvalley]

Thank you. Awesome+.

[@badgerp-chanqueen7707]

Lots of octopi 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙

[@user-tb9rf7gl6s]

👌👌👌

[@Light-rb9ih]

Some of the Lords' beautiful creations. Incredible

[@user-pz5bm6qc7n]

The octopus are created by their parents actually

[@elisabethsalmon4107]

Cool but creepy

[@narekan8824]

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[@user-pz5bm6qc7n]

Lol go away this is an octopus video

[@narekan8824]

@@user-pz5bm6qc7n I know that I am amazed by this creature, so I remember the God who made it

[@user-pz5bm6qc7n]

@@narekan8824 you mean the millions of years of evolution that made it

[@narekan8824]

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