This is the shocking moment a hungry seal came head to tentacle with its octopus dinner in a battle of the predators. The Australian fur seal, named fondly by divers as 'Cecile', managed to nip the octopus despite being on the hunt itself. Photographer Phil Davison captured the rare sighting in Rye pier on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, while out with a group of open water scuba divers. He said: "I decided that I’d take a swim about 50 meters along the pier to see if Cecile was around. "Then I saw it, the seal already had the upper hand and the octopus looked like it was stunned, as there was no ink in the water, it was not changing colour and there was very little movement from it. "I knew immediately that this was something special and not the kind of event that you get to see every day. "The first thing that came to mind was that I wanted to do it justice in the images I took of this rare encounter. "The seal was swimming circles around me, dragging the octopus, also known as 'The Kraken', by one tentacle and trying to tear chunks off it, it was incredible. "This meant that one second the sun was shining directly on them, and the next it was silhouettes, so it was almost impossible to expose correctly while following them with the camera. "Things were moving pretty quickly and I knew I would need a fast shutter speed, both to freeze the action and avoid blowing out the highlights of the sun too much. "Then the seal dragged the octopus towards the surface and let go of it almost above my head. "It drifted down towards me and was pretty much on the end of my lens as the seal dived down and grabbed one of the octopus' arms and that's when I took the shot. "I managed to get off around 15 shots before the little light started blinking on my camera and I realized that I hadn't recharged the batteries in between dives. Phil, 37, said the camera gave up soon after which he called both a blessing and a curse. He said: "It gave me the opportunity to put away the camera and witness the bigger picture rather than the bright little rectangle that usually shines in front of me when I dive. "And it was a timely reminder to put the camera down once in a while and remember why I'm underwater in the first place, because I love it there."