{"id":966539,"date":"2026-05-17T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/966539\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T11:44:13","slug":"largest-octopus-bloom-in-75-years-inspires-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/966539\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest octopus bloom in 75 years inspires film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bristol-based filmmaker said: &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t stop thinking &#8216;there&#8217;s a story here&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Dive after dive there were octopus out and about and what struck me was how curious they can be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re often shy, but sometimes they&#8217;ll interact, investigate and seem to watch you as much as you watch them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MBA said only four major octopus blooms have been recorded in the past 125 years: in 1899 to1900, 1932 to 1933, 1950 to 1951 and the one which began in 2025 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8e8pp5ggllo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is ongoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Palfrey contacted the MBA report&#8217;s lead author, University of Plymouth associate professor Dr Bryce Stewart to contribute to the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the film Stewart connected what was being observed in the water to what data showed about oceans warming and wider ecosystem change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;The octopus bloom is an extraordinary event that tells us a lot about how marine life is responding to a warming ocean.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bristol-based filmmaker said: &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t stop thinking &#8216;there&#8217;s a story here&#8217;. &#8220;Dive after dive there were octopus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":966540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-966539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116589747562392373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}