It looked like a giant octopus head with tentacles jutting from the top and the bottom a fearful symmetry.

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On a typical day a ToorCamper can attend a talk on breaking into Android devices or disassembling microprocessors with acid and silicate solution to divine the secret cryptographic keys Microsoft stores there, learn to build a Geiger counter and scuba dive in a kelp forest in search of the North Pacific giant octopus.

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The reef has been decimated in parts by dynamite fishing, but you will still find a huge amount of underwater life, with a smorgasbord of cuttlefish, octopus, pygmy seahorse, scorpion fish, clownfish and giant green turtles.

BBC: Derawan Island and the Sangalaki Archipelago