By Luke Andrews For Mailonline
Published: 16:08 BST, 14 June 2019 | Updated: 16:12 BST, 14 June 2019
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A giant octopus tried to bite a diver's leg and clung onto their flipper in the sea of Japan.
Terrifying footage shows the animal, that appears to be as long as a human from tentacle tip to bulbous head, wrap its tentacles around the scared diver's right leg.
It was filmed on the Garrow Peninsula on Monday last week.
The giant octopus latches onto the diver's leg as they swim through the sea of Japan, near the Garrow peninsula
After latching on the octopus appears to try and bite their right leg using its sharp beak, which is hidden among its eight tentacles. Octopuses generally avoid humans although they have been known to attack them, along with relatives the Humboldt squid
