Scubaism

Reuters has a good feature on octopus hunters on the island of Rodrigues in Mauritius.

Then she sinks both hands under the waves. She brings them up again, grappling with a large pink-grey octopus, her prey’s dripping arms writhing and winding themselves around her wrists.

“The octopus is beautiful,” the 34-year-old mother-of-four says. “But it is our food, so we have to kill it.”

The octopus take a long time to die. Back on Rodrigues’ volcanic beach, she turns their heads inside out and washes out the ink, all the time chatting with other fisherwomen.