The heavy mine Bond is carrying sinks him quickly to the bottom, and he begins a fast crawl across the sandy ocean floor. He has happy to find his breathing and movement easy. As he swims he watches the many fish, watching carefully for sharks and barracudas. Then suddenly his ankle is caught; he looks down and sees an octopus wrapping his tentacles around his leg. He struggles with the octopus but it quickly takes a hold of Bond. He is afraid it will overpower him. He stabs at it with his knife but to no avail. Then Bond remembers the harpoon gun and blindly shoots in the octopus' direction. As he shoots a large cloud of black ink emerges from the octopus.....
