Sea lion-versus-octopus battle filmed off B.C.'s south coast

A woman witnessed the brutal side of nature in the waters south of Nanaimo last week. Lindsay Bryant was getting ready to go for a swim in the ocean off the Cedar shoreline south of Nanaimo on Thursday, Nov. 16, at about 12:30 p.m., when she saw a sea lion behaving unusually in Stuart Channel about 100 metres offshore. “I was getting ready to go for a swim, which I do several times a week there, and it’s not uncommon …