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With 10C water you can only be down there for at most half an hour (especially not wearing a wet/dry suit), so he likely had time for his family and the other l

by inasio 6y ago

With 10C water you can only be down there for at most half an hour (especially not wearing a wet/dry suit), so he likely had time for his family and the other less fun parts of life. That said, I found it a bit surprising that in his small window of time down there he managed to be at quite a few critical events in the octopus' life.

miles 6y ago
> With 10C water you can only be down there for at most half an hour (especially not wearing a wet/dry suit) He worked up to spending as long as 2 hours in the water on good days[0]: "[I]f I've had a bad day or I haven't slept well or I've had an injury, I go in the water and it's very difficult for me to thermoregulate. If I've had a great day, I've slept well, I'm feeling strong, I can stay in for a very long time, up to two hours. But if I'm compromised mentally, I can sometimes be cold within 20 minutes." [0] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/15/923915545/filmmaker-finds-an-unlikely-underwater-friend-in-my-octopus-teacher https://www.npr.org/2020/10/15/923915545/filmmaker-finds-an-...