Karlson posted his video on Instagram, where it has been viewed 60,000 times. Eoin McSweeney, CNN Published 2nd April 2021. “This was clearly the octopus’s domain,” Lance wanted people to know. Man comes face-to-face with angry octopus in rare attack. He said he didn’t have any vinegar to pour on the sting so he used cola instead and it stopped the stinging. While in the water, Karlson saw the octopus again, this time swimming away from a bed of shells. He then decided to go for a swim around 20 minutes later.
Lance swam back to the beach as fast as he could and noticed raised imprints from the tentacle lashing across his arm, neck and upper back. Karlson saw the octopus attack the seagull when he was just walking along the shores on the afternoon of March 18, according to the report. “My goggles became fogged, the water was suddenly murky and I remember being shocked and confused,” he said, according to Alarabiya News. Lance said later he went into the ocean alone to swim around for a bit and the octopus came and found him and attacked him again – this time actually hitting him with its tentacles lashings and leaving him dazed and confused in murky water. Lance Karlson shared the video on Instagram and wrote, “The angriest octopus in Geographe Bay! After going after a seagull it then decided my daughter and I deserved a lashing! I later discovered its home amongst a crab graveyard, where it came after me again!“ Lance Karlson posted a video of the encounter on social media last month, which. A Perth man has been attacked by an Octopus while swimming at a popular beach in WA's South West region. Within a fraction of a second, the animal lunged out of the water and tried to smack him with its tentacles. An octopus lashed out at a man as he was swimming at a beach in Western Australia, according to reports this week. Lance got out his camera to take a video of it since it’s not every day you see an octopus in the wild.Ĭurious and fascinated, Lance leaned toward the sea creature to get a closer video of it, but that was a little too close for comfort for the sea creature. Geologist from Perth, Australia, Lance Karlson, was enjoying a day at the beach with his daughter when he spotted something jumping out of the water trying to strike a seagull.Īs he and his daughter got closer to investigate, he realized it wasn’t a stingray like he thought, it was an angry-looking octopus crouched down in the shallow waters.
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