I apologize for not photographing the two longer arms. It occurred to me after the fact that that might be significant. I guess I wasn't thinking clearly, being in the middle of an air show and the unusual look of the creature. To make things a little worse. I was at one point, being trained as a scientist. So you would think I should know better.
Thank you all for your time helping with identifying this creature. Tremoctopus is the strangest octopus I have seen. In all my years of diving off the coast of Fl. I have never seen anything like this. Wow! In answer to where this picture was taken is Fort Lauderdale, Fl. The date is on the photo.
chrono_war01 asked what the black dot was. If you’re not being sarcastic… it was the eye.
Again, thanks again everybody. I was asking around for 18 mos. Till you ID’d it for me.