But this, you can’t take away:

The critter, in the first moments of the video, panicked and left, only to return moments later and begin to ‘study’ the videographer. As critter and vidder became more comfortable in close proximity, critter actually seemed to want to share (“Here’s my left, here’s my right, here’s my under, here’s my alimentary, here’s my gonads. Whachyou got?”)

I don’t care who ya are, how logical or clinical, that was a sweet and selfless act of discovery – on the critter’s part. To overcome fear and offer a friendly, er, hand of first contact? Stunning.

Person on the camera is, in my estimation, one lucky sucker.

The pipe you see at the beginning of the video is approximately 5 feet in diameter. So this “cascade monster” is much larger than one meter. The video was shot in Gulf of Mexico.