pass time in the open piddle can be extremely relaxing . you could love the calm of the vast sea , look up to its natural beauty , and then bam ! A seal smell you in the face with an devilfish . Ok , the last one might not be extremely common , but it is what happened to an unfortunate kayaker in New Zealand .

Kyle Mulinder and his protagonist were kayaking off the coast of Kaikōura on the south island of New Zealand when a seal , engaged in a battle with an octopus , flip   it out of the water at the unsuspicious Mulinder .

“ We were just pose out in the middle of the ocean and then this vast male seal appeared with an octopus and he was thrashing him about for ages , ” Mr Mulinder toldYahoo7 News . “ He thrashed it in mid - fight and my face happened to be in the wrong blank space at the amiss sentence . I was like ‘ married person , what just go on ? ’ It was weird because it happen so fast but I could feel all the hard constituent of the octopus on my face like ‘ dum dum dum ’ . ”

The team works for American tech society GoPro and were test the a la mode simulation of their Hero camera . The camera was installed on the front of their kayak , which yield the domain a front run-in can to this funny footage .

“ We were taste to scud some cute seals but it ended up being very brutal . We were n’t frightened but we decidedly got surprised for sure , “ Taiyo Masuda , who uploaded the video on his Instagram , toldBBC News .

Kaikōura is an excellent location   to discern   marine wildlife , and is particularly   renowned for its universe of male spermatozoon whales . Although sperm whales are pass around out across the populace , only the grownup male tend to reach out higher parallel such as New Zealand . The area also has dolphinfish and , as we know , “ aggressive ” seal . Seals mostly feed on Pisces the Fishes , but they are not against a piece of octopus now and again .

In this vitrine ,   the seal in query did n’t get its meal . By throwing the devilfish out of the water , possibly to rip off one of its limb , it collapse the cephalopod the luck to escape . The octopus latch itself onto the kayak and afterwards   had to be transfer by one of the instructor . Still ,   it escaped the sealing wax .

[ H / T : Yahoo7 News ]