If you walked up to an octopus tank, especially early in the morning before anyone arrived, the octopus would rise up and look at you and you're thinking, Is that guy really looking at me? He is looking at me!

But where I really learned about octopus was in the field, as a filmmaker making films with them, where you're allowed to spend large periods of time with the animals, seeing octopus being octopus in their ocean homes.

and an octopus. Ain't that amazing? Now, Roger spooked him so he took off in a cloud of ink, and when he lands the octopus says, Oh, I've been seen.

And I can't say octopus are responsible for my really strong interest in getting in subs and going deep, but whatever the case, I like that.

The octopus left my hands and then did the damnedest thing It landed on the bottom in the rubble and fwoosh! vanished right before my eyes.

David Gallo shows jaw dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean.